In the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz received calls to resign and ethics complaints. Cruz is also an attorney, and there’s an effort from lawyers and law students to disbar him. They say Cruz made false statements about the 2020 election, violating the ethical standards of the profession. KERA’s Bret Jaspers reports.
Late last year, Congress reinstated something that had been banned for more than 25 years – Pell grants for people in prison. Those federal funds for inmates had been cut in 1994 during the “tough on crime” era. Criminal justice advocates are lauding the move, saying it’s a step in the right direction for setting incarcerated people up for success once they re-enter society. Margaret diZerega, director for the Center on Sentencing and Corrections at the Vera Institute of Justice, a criminal justice reform nonprofit, talks to the Standard.
A Look At Texasâ Outsized Role In The U.S. Capitol Attack
Prominent Texans were involved in events leading up to Wednesdayâs insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
January 7, 2021, 3:37 AM
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, front, followed by Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., walk from the House Chamber following a Senate procession carrying boxes holding Electoral College votes to the House Chamber for a joint session to confirm the Electoral College votes on Wednesday in Washington.
Prominent Texans were involved in events leading up to Wednesday s insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, an ally of the president, spoke earlier in the day at a pro-Trump rally in Washington, D.C. He was cheered for his effort last month to try to overturn presidential election results in battleground states that President Trump lost.
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Carlo and his two daughters at the El Buen Samaritano Migrant Shelter in Juárez on Sept. 30, 2020. The family crossed the border in Mexicali, Mexico, but were sent to Juárez to await the Migrant Protection Protocols court process.
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Will Humble
Will Humble, former Arizona health director, says while there’s not enough of a difference to be alarmed, you should stay vigilant.
“I couldn’t find anything to get me alarmed, you know, but having said that, you know, this is a fluid situation. We don’t always know everything all the time,” Humble said.
Health experts say the vaccines will be effective on this variant. Still, Humble recommends avoiding large crowds.
But, especially with Christmas this week he recommends taking advantage of COVID-19 testing so everyone knows their status beforehand. He also says it is critical to utilize face masks and social distancing.
The Bureau of Land Management manages 245 million acres, including Vermilion Cliffs, Arizona.
The Bureau of Land Management manages 245 million acres, many of them wind-swept deserts of sagebrush and tumbleweeds in the rural West.
The agency tries to strike a balance between drilling, mining, grazing and conservation, and that s not easy conservationists frequently take the agency to court. But most BLM critics will acknowledge the agency is understaffed.
During the Trump administration, the BLM faced a new problem: brain drain. People left the agency, for a variety of reasons.
“Things had been so stressful and bad during most of my 15 years at BLM that I could see early on in the Trump administration that things were going from bad to much worse, said Richard Spotts, who worked on Federal Land Policy and Management Act compliance on the Arizona Strip. And so instead of waiting until my full Social Security retirement age of 66, I retired about one year early, basically