With abortion in Texas being outlawed from the moment of conception, Amarillo has become an abortion trafficking hub connecting abortion-free states like Texas to abortion-access states like New Mexico, Colorado and Kansas. After much <a href="https://www.liveaction.org/news/betrayed-amarillo-sanctuary-unborn-vote-mayor/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">back and forth</a> attempting to see their City Council approve such a measure, residents have now sent the <a href="https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/4b2b0d23-d175-4bfb-a8d9-71911a3ad695/downloads/amarillo-scftu-ordinance%20(12-29-2023).pdf?ver=1720027072861" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ordinance</a> to the ballot for voters to decide this November. 
The increase of Texas residents traveling out of state for abortion may be higher than one would expect. In New Mexico, abortion provider Amy Hagstrom Miller shared with <a href="https://www.kut.org/health/2023-06-23/abortion-clinics-in-neighboring-states-see-more-texans-than-locals?_ga=2.125522956.743985948.1713611032-1353710499.1713611032" target="_blank" rel="noopener">KUT News</a>, “Nearly all of the appointments made at Whole Woman’s Health in Albuquerque have been made by Texans.” 
In an interview with <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/01/23/1226406595/after-texas-banned-abortion-one-doctor-moved-his-entire-practice-to-new-mexico" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Public Radio</a>, it was reported that 85% of abortion provider Alan Braid’s business at Alamo Women’s Clinic in Albuquerque comes from Texas. Braid told the news outlet that “abortion travel bans” like the one passed in Lubbock County and the one being discussed in Amarillo are having an impact on abortion centers throughout New Mexico. According to Braid, “They’re having higher no-show rates because people are afraid to drive through Lubbock and Amarillo.” 
<div id="attachment_770555" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-770555" class="size-large wp-image-770555" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/07/M48A5675-copy-864x576.jpeg" alt="Courtesy: Mark Lee Dickson" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/07/M48A5675-copy-864x576.jpeg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/07/M48A5675-copy-300x200.jpeg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/07/M48A5675-copy-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/07/M48A5675-copy-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/07/M48A5675-copy-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/07/M48A5675-copy-1800x1200.jpeg 1800w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/07/M48A5675-copy-1200x800.jpeg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" />Courtesy: Mark Lee Dickson</div>
Alamo’s <a href="https://alamowomensclinic.com/costs-and-funding/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> lists several abortion assistance organizations willing to help cover abortion travel expenses from Texas to New Mexico including Jane’s Due Process and Fund Texas Choice. Alamo has even advertised on their own <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Abortionclinicsanantonio/posts/pfbid02m4K1TFoiCgDpGqqLem61BzHWuCHQoyzuNGpEwBoZETBqQrtcVQirRYm72y3Yn1YAl">Facebook</a>, “Texas Teens – if you are under 18 and seeking an abortion, there is funding available. Abortions Care and all travel and expenses are FREE. Compassionate, Kind and Discreet staff. No Parental consent is needed in Albuquerque or Illinois.”
Colorado abortion provider Leroy Carhart IV revealed that 47% of his patients at <a href="https://carecliniccolorado.com/">CARE Colorado</a> in Pueblo were from Texas, while only 31% were from Colorado. Carhart also shared that Texans “most often arrive by car, driving in from cities and towns all over the state, whether making the 13-hour trek from Austin or a five-hour trip from Amarillo,” with some of the traveling costs offset by abortion assistance groups like the Lilith Fund or Jane’s Due Process.
In Kansas, <a href="https://www.plannedparenthood.org/planned-parenthood-great-plains">Planned Parenthood Great Plains</a> president and CEO Emily Wales told <a href="https://www.kut.org/health/2023-06-23/abortion-clinics-in-neighboring-states-see-more-texans-than-locals?_ga=2.125522956.743985948.1713611032-1353710499.1713611032">KUT News</a> “around half of all patients at Planned Parenthood clinics in Kansas are Texans,” adding that the “heightened demand often surpasses the Wichita clinic’s capacity, and Texas patients are referred to the more distant Kansas City and Overland Park locations.”
The Amarillo <a href="https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/4b2b0d23-d175-4bfb-a8d9-71911a3ad695/downloads/amarillo-scftu-ordinance%20(12-29-2023).pdf?ver=1720027072861">ordinance</a> seeks to close six major loopholes in Texas abortion laws. It would further outlaw abortion in the City of Amarillo by adding, into local law, the following provisions:
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Prohibit any person from procuring or performing an elective abortion of any type and at any stage of pregnancy in the city of Amarillo, extending the private right of action from the point of a detectable heartbeat to the point of conception. (Section 8-6-2) </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Prohibit any person from knowingly performing an elective abortion or knowingly engaging in conduct that aids or abets an elective abortion if the abortion is performed on a resident of Amarillo, regardless of the location of the abortion, regardless of the law in the jurisdiction where the abortion occurred, and regardless of whether the person knew or should have known that the abortion was performed or induced on a resident of Amarillo. (Section 8-6-3)</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Prohibit any person from knowingly transporting any individual for the purpose of providing or obtaining an elective abortion, regardless of where the elective abortion will occur, as long as the transportation of such individual begins, ends, or passes through the city of Amarillo. (Section 8-6-4)</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Prohibit abortion-inducing drugs from being manufactured, possessed, distributed, mailed, transported, delivered, or provided in any manner to or from any person or location in the City of Amarillo. (Section 8-6-5)</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Prohibit criminal organizations who are violating federal laws prohibiting the mailing and receiving of abortion-inducing drugs and abortion paraphernalia from doing business in, or receiving grants from, the City of Amarillo. This provision recognizes any entity violating 18 U.S.C. §§ 1461-1462 by shipping or receiving abortion inducing drugs or abortion paraphernalia to be criminal organizations in violation of federal law. (Section 8-6-6)</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Prohibit any person from transporting the remains of an unborn child who was killed by an elective abortion from any abortion provider into the city of Amarillo, or to dispose of such remains from any abortion provider within the city of Amarillo. (Section 8-6-7)</li>
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In August 2023, Senators and Representatives from across Texas signed a <a href="https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/4b2b0d23-d175-4bfb-a8d9-71911a3ad695/downloads/SCFTU-Elected-Official-Letter-August-2023%20(1)%20.pdf?ver=1720027072895">letter</a> to support the passage of such ordinances, followed by a <a href="https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/4b2b0d23-d175-4bfb-a8d9-71911a3ad695/downloads/New%20Mexico%20Elected%20Official%20Letter.pdf?ver=1720027072895">letter</a> of support from Senators and Representatives across New Mexico. Of the five largest political subdivisions to pass Sanctuary for the Unborn Ordinances, four have provisions prohibiting abortion trafficking – making it the new “normal” for such ordinances. 
The path to victory in Amarillo will not be without challenges. Groups like <a href="https://www.womensmarch.com/">Women’s March</a> are on the ground and committed to doing everything they can to preserve abortion access from Amarillo into states like New Mexico, Colorado and Kansas. In fact, the Executive Director of Women’s March, Rachel O’Leary Carmona, moved from Brooklyn, New York, to Amarillo three years ago to “go where the fight is.” 
A <a href="https://www.womensmarch.com/initiatives/all-eyes-on-amarillo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">page</a> devoted to Amarillo on their national website reads, “Anti-choice, anti-democracy extremists and the politicians beholden to them are energized and emboldened by the overturning of Roe V. Wade. Highways are the next antiabortion target. Amarillo is just one Texas town resisting.” The messaging continues, “A new ordinance, passed in several jurisdictions and under consideration elsewhere, aims to stop people from using local roads to drive someone out of state for an abortion. We are mobilizing in the wake of this latest attack on women and democracy itself.” 
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Since last year, Women’s March has repeatedly sent out mass emails to their followers across the nation, encouraging them to do their part in discouraging the passage of the ordinance. 
One local organization fighting the ordinance is the <a href="https://www.amarillorfa.org/">Amarillo Reproductive Freedom Alliance</a> (ARFA), whose efforts have won praise both from Carmona and United States Representative <a href="https://twitter.com/ColinAllredTX/status/1771258876513403367">Colin Allred</a>. ARFA defines themselves as a “coalition of individuals, businesses, and organizations working to protect reproductive freedom in the Texas Panhandle.” Their website reads, “Our organization was founded in opposition to the Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn ordinance, which, if passed, would prevent our fellow Texans from helping a pregnant person get an abortion across state lines &#8211; even if the abortion occurred in a state where it is legal.” 
In March, ARFA’s members took part in a Women’s March rally outside of the Supreme Court of the United States when the high court heard arguments for the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. the FDA. While participating in that rally, ARFA member Lindsay London shared with the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/03/26/protests-supreme-court-abortion-pill-mifepristone/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington Post</a> that she “has driven women to Albuquerque and Denver to receive a surgical abortion” and “provides resources for people to obtain mifepristone” in Amarillo. 
To add to the complexity of the battle, there is a concern that the District Attorney’s Office in Randall County (which makes up approximately half of Amarillo’s landmass) has been compromised. Aubrey Reinhardt Birkenfeld, the Assistant District Attorney for the county, has had a long history as a pro-abortion activist working for Planned Parenthood as a speaker and as a <a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/08/22/texas-seeks-trumps-help-to-defund-planned-parenthood/">patient advocate</a>. Birkenfeld has also volunteered with <a href="https://janesdueprocess.org/about/">Jane’s Due Process</a>, providing “intake and counseling of minors seeking a judicial bypass in the State of Texas” and partnered with organizations “such as TEA Fund, Lilith Fund, and West Fund to provide minors with financial assistance” for their abortions. 
One of the two co-authors of the ordinance, Attorney Jonathan F. Mitchell has expressed his willingness to represent the city at no cost for any litigation that may arise from the passage of the ordinance. Earlier this year Mitchell <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-hears-arguments-on-whether-trump-can-remain-on-colorado-ballot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">represented</a> former President Donald J. Trump in the Colorado ballot case before the Supreme Court of the United States.
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<a href="http://www.markleedickson.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mark Lee Dickson</a> is a Director with Right to Life of East Texas and the founder of the Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn Initiative. 
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach has become the second state attorney general to sue the pharmaceutical company Pfizer over the COVID vaccine the company provided.
On Monday, Kobach announced the lawsuit at a press conference in Topeka.
“Pfizer made multiple misleading statements to deceive the public about its vaccine at a time when Americans needed the truth,” Kobach <a href="https://www.kwch.com/2024/06/17/kansas-ag-kris-kobach-suing-pfizer-misleading-kansans-covid-vaccine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
The lawsuit <a href="https://ag.ks.gov/docs/default-source/documents/2024-06-15-pfizer-complaint-(002).pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states</a>, “Pfizer misled the public that it had a ‘safe and effective’ COVID-19 vaccine. Pfizer said its COVID-19 vaccine was safe even though it knew its COVID-19 vaccine was connected to serious adverse events, including myocarditis and pericarditis, failed pregnancies, and deaths. Pfizer concealed this critical safety information from the public.”
Pfizer said its COVID-19 vaccine was effective even though it knew its COVID-19 vaccine waned over time and did not protect against COVID-19 variants,” the lawsuit continues. “Pfizer concealed this critical effectiveness information from the public. Pfizer said its COVID-19 vaccine would prevent transmission of COVID-19 even though it knew it never studied the effect of its vaccine on transmission of COVID-19. To keep the public from learning the truth, Pfizer worked to censor speech on social media that questioned Pfizer’s claims about its COVID-19 vaccine. &#8230; Pfizer must be held accountable for falsely representing the benefits of its COVID- 19 vaccine while concealing and suppressing the truth about its vaccine’s safety risks, waning effectiveness, and inability to prevent transmission.”
Pfizer <a href="https://fox4kc.com/news/kansas-attorney-general-sues-pfizer-over-covid-vaccine-company-responds/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released the following statement</a> in response to the lawsuit:
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We are proud to have developed the COVID-19 vaccine in record time in the midst of a global pandemic and saved countless lives. The representations made by Pfizer about its COVID-19 vaccine have been accurate and science-based. The Company believes that the state’s case has no merit and will respond to the suit in due course.
Pfizer is deeply committed to the well-being of the patients it serves and has no higher priority than ensuring the safety and effectiveness of its treatments and vaccines. Since its initial authorization by FDA in December 2020, the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine has been administered to more than 1.5 billion people, demonstrated a favorable safety profile in all age groups, and helped protect against severe COVID-19 outcomes, including hospitalization and death.
Patient safety is our number one priority, which is why we follow diligent safety and monitoring protocols.
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Last November, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against Pfizer.

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Kansas City doxed Harrison Butker on its official city-run X account on Wednesday after the Kansas City Chiefs kicker sparked controversy over the weekend.
Butker told college graduates during a commencement speech that his wife would agree that her life “truly started when she began living her vocation as a wife and as a mother.”
His comments drew swift backlash online, with critics branding him as misogynistic.
&#8220;Just a reminder that Harrison Butker lives in &#8230; &#8221; the city of Kansas City posted on its official X account, referencing the area where Butker lives.
The city then quickly deleted that post and put out another apologizing for the &#8220;previous tweet,&#8221; misspelling the word &#8220;apologize.&#8221;
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We apologies for our previous tweet. It was shared in error.
&mdash; Kansas City (@KansasCity) <a href="https://twitter.com/KansasCity/status/1790915326944641269?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The apology did not stop social media users from mocking the city&#8217;s misstep.
&#8220;Someone was sweating so hard when they typed this that they couldn’t spell &#8216;apologize,'&#8221; one X user posted.
&#8220;LOL no it wasn&#8217;t and I want the name of the employee that you fired for tweeting it. Who did you fire, specifically?&#8221; another user posted.
Kansas City Democratic Mayor Quinton Lucas also responded to the controversy.
&#8220;A message appeared earlier this evening from a City public account,&#8221; Lucas posted. &#8220;The message was clearly inappropriate for a public account. The City has correctly apologized for the error, will review account access, and ensure nothing like it is shared in the future from public channels.&#8221;
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A message appeared earlier this evening from a City public account. 
The message was clearly inappropriate for a public account. The City has correctly apologized for the error, will review account access, and ensure nothing like it is shared in the future from public channels.
&mdash; Mayor Q (@QuintonLucasKC) <a href="https://twitter.com/QuintonLucasKC/status/1790920537511805434?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Over the weekend, Butker gave a commencement speech at Benedictine College, a Catholic liberal arts school in Atchison, Kansas, and criticized abortion, Pride Month, and pandemic lockdowns.
“How many of you are sitting here now, about to cross this stage, and are thinking about all the promotions and titles you are going to get in your career? Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world,” Butker said during his remarks. “But I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world.”
He added, &#8220;It cannot be overstated that all of my success is made possible because a girl I met in band class back in middle school would convert to the faith, become my wife, and embrace one of the most important titles of all: homemaker.”
The Catholic player also called out President Joe Biden, whose staffers have described him as a &#8220;devout Catholic.&#8221;
“Our nation is led by a man who publicly and proudly proclaims his Catholic faith, but at the same time is delusional enough to make the sign of the cross during a pro-abortion rally,” Butker said during his speech. “He has been so vocal in his support for the murder of innocent babies that I’m sure to many people, it appears you can be both Catholic and pro-choice.”
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Butker&#8217;s comments spurred a torrent of criticism, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/harrison-butker-kansas-city-chiefs-backlash-benedictine-college-speech-rcna152433" target="_blank" rel="noopener">including</a> from several high-profile figures such as actor Bradley Whitford and rapper Flavor Flav. Other high-profile figures came out in support of his remarks, including former NFL wide receiver T.J. Moe and sports media personalities Clay Travis and Jason Whitlock.
A Change.org <a href="https://www.change.org/p/demand-the-kansas-city-chiefs-to-dismiss-harrison-butker-for-discriminatory-remarks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">petition</a> calling for the three-time Super Bowl champion to be kicked off the Chiefs for his &#8220;discriminatory&#8221; remarks amassed more than 115,000 signatures.
The NFL distanced itself from Butker&#8217;s comments.
“Harrison Butker gave a speech in his personal capacity,” Jonathan Beane, NFL senior vice president and chief diversity and inclusion officer, told <a href="https://people.com/harrison-butker-nfl-does-not-share-views-in-graduation-speech-8649229" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PEOPLE</a>. “His views are not those of the NFL as an organization. The NFL is steadfast in our commitment to inclusion, which only makes our league stronger.”

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A group of Republican attorneys general announced a new lawsuit against the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration</a> over its changes to Title IX that would expand prohibitions on discrimination to include gender identity.
The 85-page <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/05/KS-Title-IX-Complaint-filing-copy.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a>, filed by Kansas, Utah, Alaska, Wyoming, Moms For Liberty, Young America’s Foundation, and Female Athletes United, says that the rule politicizes the education system to “conform to the radical ideological views of the Biden administration and its allies.”
The Education Department, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, the Justice Department, and Attorney General Merrick Garland are all named in the suit. Conservatives have argued that Biden’s changes to Title IX will endanger state laws keeping males out of women’s sports, bathrooms, and locker rooms.
“If Biden has his way, a 16-year-old female high school student on an overnight field trip could be forced to share a hotel room with a biological male who identifies as a girl or the district would risk losing federal funding,” <a href="https://adfmedia.org/press-release/more-states-girls-sue-biden-admin-illegal-attempt-rewrite-title-ix" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach. “A 14-year-old girl could be forced to share a locker room and change in front of an 18-year-old man who identifies as a woman or the district could lose funds. It’s unconscionable, it’s dangerous for girls and women, and it’s against federal law.”
During a press conference announcing the suit, Kobach said that there were multiple concerns with the rules, including the intrusion of transgender-identifying males into female spaces, loss of due process for students accused of sexual misconduct, and expansion of benefits for students and school staff for abortions.
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“Sports should be free of politics, we’re not injecting politics into sports, we’re keeping politics out because it is a pure, ideological crusade that is driving this attempt to change women’s sports,” Kobach <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/963297708765749">said</a> during a press conference.
The suit argues that Biden’s new guidelines violate federal law, as well as the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments.
“This unlawful rule also robs girls and women of their opportunity to participate in their school’s education programs and activities, especially athletics, by forcing them to compete with biological males,” the suit says. “It forces both boys and girls, in their most formative years, to sacrifice their privacy in personal spaces such as restrooms, locker rooms, and even overnight accommodations.”
A number of other Republican officials <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-states-file-flurry-of-lawsuits-against-biden-admin-over-transgender-title-ix-rules" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have filed</a> challenges to Biden’s Title IX re-write, including Montana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Idaho, Texas, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, and South Carolina.

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More than two dozen Republican attorneys general announced challenges on Wednesday to the proposed gun control rule from the Biden administration regulating private firearm sales. 
Multiple suits were filed in federal court against the proposal, which would require individuals who &#8220;earn a profit” selling guns to conduct background checks and have a federal firearms license <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-harris-announces-new-rule-all-gun-dealers-must-conduct-background-checks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">no matter</a> where or how they sell their merchandise. Republicans say that the proposed <a href="https://www.regulations.gov/document/ATF-2023-0002-0001#:~:text=921(a)(21)(C)%20as%20%E2%80%9Ca%20person,makes%20occasional%20sales%2C%20exchanges%2C%20or" target="_blank" rel="noopener">regulations</a>, put forth by the Justice Department, infringe on Second Amendment rights and would make it a felony for family members and friends to sell guns to each other without conducting background checks or having a federal license. 
One effort, led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, sued the DOJ and the ATF, arguing that the ATF doesn’t have the statutory authority to enforce the rule and that it violates the Second and Fifth Amendments. 
“Yet again, Joe Biden is weaponizing the federal bureaucracy to rip up the Constitution and destroy our citizens’ Second Amendment rights,” Paxton <a href="https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-ken-paxton-leads-multistate-coalition-suing-biden-administration-over-unlawful-ban" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “This is a dramatic escalation of his tyrannical abuse of authority. With today’s lawsuit, it is my great honor to defend our Constitutionally-protected freedoms from the out-of-control federal government.”
The suit was joined by Louisiana, Mississippi, Utah, the Gun Owners of America, the Virginia Citizens Defense League, and the Tennessee Firearms Association. 
A separate lawsuit, led by Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, also challenges the DOJ and the ATF. 
“Biden’s latest attempt to strip away the Second Amendment rights of Americans through ATF regulations will make many law-abiding gun owners felons if they sell a firearm or two to family or friends,” Kobach <a href="https://ag.ks.gov/media-center/news-releases/2024/05/01/kobach-leads-21-state-coalition-in-defense-of-second-amendment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “This rule is blatantly unconstitutional. We are suing to defend the Second Amendment rights of all Americans.”
Kansas was joined by Iowa, Montana, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Idaho, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
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Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody filed A third lawsuit against the DOJ and ATF.
The Biden administration <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-signs-most-expansive-gun-control-bill-in-decades-into-law-following-republican-support" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> it had proposed the rules to implement the “Bipartisan Safer Communities Act,” which added background check stipulations and gave grants for states to enact “red flag” laws. The measure, which was backed by 15 Republicans in the Senate and 14 Republicans in the House, was the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-signs-most-expansive-gun-control-bill-in-decades-into-law-following-republican-support" target="_blank" rel="noopener">most expansive</a> gun control law signed into law in decades. 
“The challenged rule, in fact, goes far beyond the plain text of the BSCA,” Florida’s <a href="https://www.myfloridalegal.com/sites/default/files/2024-05/atf-complaint_as-filed.pdf">suit</a> says. “It purports to force thousands of law-abiding gun owners to register as federal firearms dealers and navigate a federal bureaucracy as a precondition to engaging in constitutionally protected activity. The challenged rule is unlawful.”

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kansas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kansas</a> legislature failed to override the governor&#8217;s veto of a ban on transgender medical procedures for children after two Republican lawmakers flipped their votes on Monday.
The failed bill would have banned puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and gender surgeries for minors.
The state Senate successfully <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/29/politics/kansas-gender-affirming-care-ban-veto-override-fails/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted</a> 27-13 to override the governor&#8217;s veto. However, the state House voted 82-43, just two votes short of the two-thirds majority needed to push the bill past the veto.
Two Republicans <a href="https://kslegislature.org/li/b2023_24/measures/vote_view/je_20240429191258_506548/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">broke ranks</a> and voted with Democrats to tank the bill. State House Representatives Susan Concannon and Jesse Borjon voted against overriding the governor&#8217;s veto even though both had previously voted in favor of the bill.
“We hear of bullying and ask authorities to make it stop,” Concannon <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiRN86RTFsw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> from the House floor. “We hear about mental health, about suicide, and ask why. We’re not listening to the impacted youth. Government involvement is not the answer.”
“I voted for this bill in the past due to concerns about the surgery,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;With further consideration, this bill is vague beyond the surgery. These decisions belong between the team of professionals and the parents. The youth need our help, not government overreach. To all who have reached out, I hear you, and vote to sustain the governor’s veto.”
The other Republican who voted against the bill, Borjon, <a href="https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article288108015.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> he &#8220;strongly supports&#8221; prohibiting gender reassignment surgery and &#8220;limiting&#8221; the use of hormone blockers, but that some parts of the bill &#8220;go too far in restricting mental and behavioral health care for children.&#8221;
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A Republican and physician who voted in favor, State Senator Mark Steffen, slammed the “woke health care system” for encouraging children to obtain medical gender treatments.
“Today I voted to protect our children from being mutilated,” Steffen <a href="https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article288108015.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Governor Laura Kelly, a Democrat, vetoed the ban earlier this month.
Kelly celebrated the legislature&#8217;s failure to override her veto in a statement Monday night.
&#8220;I am glad that bipartisan members of the legislature have stood firm in saying that divisive bills like House Substitute for Senate Bill 233 have no place in Kansas,&#8221; Kelly said. &#8220;The legislature’s decision to sustain my veto is a win for parental rights, Kansas families, and families looking to call our state home.&#8221;
Under the failed bill, children who were already on puberty blockers, estrogen, or testosterone would have been permitted to continue taking the drugs until the end of this year. However, their doctors would have had to come up with a plan to phase them off the drugs, as well as show that stopping the drugs immediately would endanger the child.
The bill would also have allowed people to sue doctors over transgender medical treatments for children. Doctors could also see their medical licenses revoked if they flouted the ban.
The measure would also have prohibited using state funds like Medicaid to promote transgender medical treatments. State employees would also have been barred from using pronouns that did not match a child&#8217;s biological sex.
Two dozen states <a href="https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article288108015.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have</a> laws or policies restricting transgender medical services for children.
In Europe, the momentum is even greater against transgender drugs and procedures for children. England and several other countries have severely restricted medical gender transitions for children.
Both puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones come with serious health risks. Puberty blockers can <a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/gender-dysphoria/in-depth/pubertal-blockers/art-20459075">affect</a> bone growth and density and cause sexual dysfunction, voice damage, and infertility, among other issues. Cross-sex hormones can <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/transgender-young-people-in-u-s-have-nearly-doubled-recently-report-shows" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cause</a> infertility, deadly blood clots, heart attacks, increased cancer risks of the breasts and ovaries, liver dysfunction, worsening psychological illness, and other serious conditions.

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Four people have been arrested in connection to the disappearance of two Kansas moms who haven’t been seen in two weeks.
Tad Bert Cullum, 43; Cole Earl Twombly, 50; Cora Twombly, 44; and Tifany Machel Adams, 54, were taken into custody and identified as suspects in the disappearance of Jilian Kelley, 39, and Veronica Butler, 27, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/4-people-arrested-connection-2-missing-kansas-women-osbi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, citing the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI). The OSBI reportedly told the outlet that one suspect was arrested in Texas County in Oklahoma – where the women were traveling to pick up Butler’s children – while the other three were arrested in Cimarron County.
The suspects were booked into the Texas County Jail on two counts each of first-degree murder, kidnapping, and one count each of conspiracy to commit murder in the first degree.
Adams is reportedly the paternal grandmother of Butler’s children, and they lived with her.
Less than 24 hours after the arrests, two bodies were found in Texas County, the OSBI announced on Facebook.
“Both individuals will be transported to the Medical Examiner’s Office to determine identification, as well as cause and manner of death,” the OSBI said. “This is still an ongoing investigation.”
The OSBI has not said officially that the two deceased bodies are connected to Kelley and Butler’s disappearance, though they offered condolences to the families during <a href="https://fox59.com/news/national-world/2-bodies-found-in-rural-oklahoma-amid-search-for-2-kansas-women/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a press conference</a> on Monday. The two bodies were found in the area where law enforcement was searching for Kelley and Butler.
Kelley was traveling with Butler to pick up Butler’s young children in Eva, Oklahoma, but they <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/two-kansas-moms-disappeared-while-picking-up-kids-in-oklahoma-foul-play-is-suspected" target="_blank" rel="noopener">never arrived</a>. Their vehicle was found abandoned in Elkhart, Kansas, just a few miles from their destination, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/OSBI.OK/posts/pfbid02RL17Ct1xfw5HmM9mHaEDLNch4Ah8JJZBt7xP1vvVE2zgpxHGzTDGKyk775K79axnl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a Facebook post</a> on March 31.
What investigators discovered in the vehicle has led them to suspect foul play is involved, the OSBI said in an update. The bureau has not released what was found.
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The two women were traveling to pick up Butler’s 6-year-old daughter and 8-year-old son. Butler was reportedly involved in a custody dispute with the father of her children, Wrangler Cole Rickman, Inside Edition <a href="https://www.insideedition.com/evidence-in-car-veronica-butler-was-driving-when-she-and-jillian-kelley-vanished-points-to-foul" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Rickman had been released from prison, where he was serving a sentence for possession of a firearm, just a week before the women went missing. But Lauren Conlin, an independent journalist, spoke to Rickman’s grandmother, who said Rickman had been released from prison and ordered to go to rehab on the same day. She said Rickman was in rehab when the women disappeared.
“He [Rickman] was checked into rehab on the 22nd- 30 days no contact and cannot leave any outings from the facility for 30 days, and has to be there for six months. OSBI confirmed he was there,” the grandmother said, Conlin <a href="https://twitter.com/conlin_lauren/status/1775368832963502376" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on X on April 2.
Rickman has not been arrested or charged in the disappearance of Butler or Kelley, but his mother was one of the four arrested in connection to the disappearance.

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Democratic Kansas Governor Laura Kelly vetoed a bill on Friday that would have protected children from life-altering transgender surgeries, claiming that it trampled on parental rights. 
The Republican-backed <a href="https://legiscan.com/KS/text/SB233/id/2972770/Kansas-2023-SB233-Enrolled.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bill</a> would have banned surgical procedures like removing the breasts of girls who identify as boys and other genital-related surgeries. It also would have banned placing children on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, which have been linked to poor bone development, future fertility issues, and heart problems. 
“This divisive legislation targets a small group of Kansans by placing government mandates on them and dictating to parents how to best raise and care for their children. I do not believe that is a conservative value, and it’s certainly not a Kansas value,” Kelly <a href="https://governor.kansas.gov/governor-kelly-vetoes-bills-allows-one-to-become-law-without-signature/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a veto message. “To be clear, this legislation tramples parental rights.”
Republicans have supermajorities in both the state House and Senate, meaning that they could move to override Kelly&#8217;s veto. The legislation, Senate Bill 233, passed the House 80 to 40 and the Senate 26 to11. 
The legislation also would have authorized a civil cause of action against healthcare providers for providing such treatments, restricted the use of state money to back “gender transitioning,” and require professional discipline for doctors who did transgender procedures on kids. 
Kansas House Speaker Dan Hawkins <a href="https://twitter.com/DanHawkinsKS/status/1778897440323612732" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Republicans stood by ready to override the veto. 
“As we watch other states, nations, and organizations reverse course on these experimental procedures on children, Laura Kelly will most surely find herself on the wrong side of history with her reckless veto of this common-sense protection for Kansas minors,” he said. 
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Last year, the Senate <a href="https://kansasreflector.com/2023/04/26/senate-attempts-to-override-slew-of-vetoed-transgender-bills-but-care-ban-fails/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fell short</a> of overriding Kelly’s veto of a similar bill that would have banned transgender procedures on children. The legislature was able to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kansas-will-no-longer-allow-residents-to-change-gender-on-birth-certificates" target="_blank" rel="noopener">override her veto</a> on a bill that defined men and women on the basis of their “biological reproductive system.” 
According to the <a href="https://kslegislature.org/li/b2023_24/measures/documents/summary_sb_180_2023" target="_blank" rel="noopener">law</a>, a “female” is “an individual whose biological reproductive system is developed to produce ova” and a “mother” is” a parent of the female sex.” The law also stipulates that “woman” and “girl” refer to biological females. 
In recent years, over 20 states have enacted laws shielding children from transgender surgeries, puberty blockers, and cross-sex hormone regimes. The groups have been opposed by leftist activists who claim the laws are discriminatory and violate the 14th Amendment.

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Two Kansas moms who were traveling together to pick up children in Oklahoma’s panhandle have not been seen in more than a week, and police suspect foul play.
Jilian Kelley, 39, was traveling with Veronica Butler, 27, to pick up Butler’s young children in Eva, Oklahoma, but they never arrived. Their vehicle was found abandoned in Elkhart, Kansas, just a few miles from their destination, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/OSBI.OK/posts/pfbid02RL17Ct1xfw5HmM9mHaEDLNch4Ah8JJZBt7xP1vvVE2zgpxHGzTDGKyk775K79axnl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a Facebook post</a> on March 31.
What investigators discovered in the vehicle has led them to suspect foul play is involved, the OSBI said in an update. The bureau has not released what was found.
Kelley is the wife of Pastor Heath Kelley of the Hugoton First Christian Church in Kansas, The Christian Post <a href="https://www.christianpost.com/news/pastors-wife-another-woman-missing-after-car-is-abandoned.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. A <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xd46F-vWAs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a> posted to YouTube last week shows church officials praying for the Kelley family. Willow Christian Church also <a href="https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid02wgnzgcVU4Bn8DZt19L8VrFYZHDKUQUZxHiHL2PTpMKbk2Xdxth2jYMaRcLVhiP69l&amp;id=100070087011279" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> prayers for the missing women on Facebook.
&#8220;Please, please be in prayer for these women. Jillian is the wife of our new minister, Heath Kelley, and the sister-in-law of church member Hillary Kennedy,&#8221; the church said. &#8220;Please pray that Jillian and her friend Veronica are safe and that they are found quickly. God please bring these women home to their families that are so worried about them.&#8221;
Butler was a member of the Hugoton Assembly of God, and her pastor <a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=395956500038685" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> ABC News that the two women were acquaintances rather than friends.
&#8220;It appears that this was not a willing incident on their own to have taken off. It looks to me that there&#8217;s something more involved,&#8221; he told the outlet.
The two women were traveling to pick up Butler’s 6-year-old daughter and 8-year-old son. The children were living with their biological father’s mother. Butler was reportedly involved in a custody dispute with the father of her children, Wrangler Cole Rickman, Inside Edition <a href="https://www.insideedition.com/evidence-in-car-veronica-butler-was-driving-when-she-and-jillian-kelley-vanished-points-to-foul" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Rickman had been released from prison, where he was serving a sentence for possession of a firearm, just a week before the women went missing. But Lauren Conlin, an independent journalist, spoke to Rickman’s grandmother who said Rickman had been released from prison and ordered to go to rehab on the same day. She said Rickman was in rehab when the women disappeared.
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&#8220;He [Rickman] was checked into rehab on the 22nd- 30 days no contact and cannot leave any outings from the facility for 30 days, and has to be there for six months. OSBI confirmed he was there,” the grandmother said, Conlin <a href="https://twitter.com/conlin_lauren/status/1775368832963502376">posted</a> on X.
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UPDATE: Regarding <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MISSING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MISSING</a> Kansas women, <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/VeronicaButler?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#VeronicaButler</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JillianKelley?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#JillianKelley</a>. I spoke with the grandmother of Wrangler Cole Rickman [Rickman is Veronica&#8217;s ex and father of her children]. Grandmother confirmed the below:
&#8220;He [Rickman] was checked into rehab on the 22nd- 30 days… <a href="https://t.co/eHuJkcZN3q">pic.twitter.com/eHuJkcZN3q</a>
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The grandmother also told Conlin that Butler’s children were safe.
Butler and Kelley remain missing.

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Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) introduced a measure on Wednesday that would prohibit the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/health-and-human-services" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Health and Human Services</a> from implementing a federal rule that could force foster parents to accept gender ideology and restrict the work of faith-based foster care organizations.
The bill, first shared with The Daily Wire, is called the ‘<a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/03/ERN24164.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘Protecting Religious Freedom for Foster Families Act,&#8221;</a> and would block HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra from implementing a proposed <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/09/28/2023-21274/safe-and-appropriate-foster-care-placement-requirements-for-titles-iv-e-and-iv-b" target="_blank" rel="noopener">placement rule</a> that would dictate that minors who identify as LGBT are placed with providers who agree to affirm a child’s gender identity, pronouns, and provide them “services that are necessary to support their health and wellbeing.” The measure, which was co-sponsored in the Senate by Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), is sponsored in the House by Rep. Josh Brecheen (R-OK).
“All children in foster care, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity, deserve safe and proper placement,” Marshall told The Daily Wire. “This extreme proposal by the HHS instead discriminates against faith-based homes and loving foster parents in pursuit of pushing their radical gender ideology and pronoun politics on religious families.”
Marshall’s bill would stop HHS from finalizing, implementing, or enforcing the proposed rule, or a similar measure.
“This rule would have an especially devastating impact in rural areas across the country, where there are fewer foster care providers than children in need of safe homes,” Marshall said. “This administration needs to leave the politics out of it and help as many kids that need their love, care, and support as possible.”
Marshall previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-sen-marshall-challenges-proposed-hhs-rule-that-would-force-foster-parents-to-accept-extreme-gender-ideology" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote a letter</a> to Becerra outlining his concerns with the rule, but has not heard back yet. The Kansas Republican noted that the rule could have the effect of forcing Christian foster services from being able to work with states to provide homes for children.
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He also noted that the rule could cause conflict in states where transgender procedures on children have been banned.
“These procedures can cause irreparable harm to children, many of whom have inconsistent parental guidance and lack the physiological development that is necessary to make an informed decision of such consequence. States should not be penalized for acting to protect the children of their state,” the letter said.
The proposal also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/states-press-hhs-over-illegal-rule-that-could-force-foster-care-providers-to-facilitate-trans-procedures" target="_blank" rel="noopener">drew criticism</a> from over a dozen Republican attorneys general who warned that the rule could compel foster care providers to facilitate transgender procedures on minors.

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Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced a lawsuit against <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/planned-parenthood" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Planned Parenthood</a> on Thursday, accusing the organization of trafficking young girls for out-of-state abortions. 
The announcement of the suit against Planned Parenthood Great Plains comes after Project Veritas released a <a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/news/planned-parenthood-part-one" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a> of Planned Parenthood workers appearing to say that they would help a young girl get an abortion in Kansas without her parent’s knowledge. 
“This is the beginning of the end for Planned Parenthood in the State of Missouri. What they conceal and conspire to do in the dark of night has now been uncovered. I am filing suit to ensure it never happens again,” Bailey said in a statement. “As a father who held my daughter in my arms for the single hour of her life before she died, I know firsthand how important it is to protect life. Our children are the future. It is time to eradicate Planned Parenthood once and for all to end this pattern of abhorrent, unethical, and illegal behavior.”
The suit references a November 2023 undercover video from Project Veritas where a man posing as the uncle of a 13-year-old girl asks several Planned Parenthood employees how to get an abortion for his niece. The Planned Parenthood workers appeared willing to help, saying that Planned Parenthood in Kansas could pick up a girl and take her for an abortion. 
The workers told the Project Veritas investigator that he would need a “bypass” if he was trying get the girl to have an abortion without the parents&#8217; knowledge. One said that a bypass meant “just not letting the parents know.” 
The Planned Parenthood employees also said they could create doctor&#8217;s notes to get the girl out of class even if the school didn’t agree and they could cut off their Planned Parenthood letterhead so it doesn’t “say where she was.” 
“The surreptitiously recorded video revealed that Planned Parenthood removes minors from school using altered doctors’ notes, transports them into Kansas for abortions, and then quickly returns them — all to avoid parents finding out,” the lawsuit says. “Violating the &#8216;deeply rooted&#8217; right of parents and the laws of Missouri, Planned Parenthood is inducing minors into making life-changing — and life-ending — decisions without parental consent.”
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Planned Parenthood <a href="https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/politics/missouri-planned-parenthood-project-veritas-children-abortions/63-5ff28d22-1653-41c5-941a-8ffb2f528eb1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a> to the suit by attacking Project Veritas and saying that it was innocent of any wrongdoing.
“This is a press release dressed up as legal action from an unelected attorney general. It is based on ‘evidence’ from fraudulent, extreme anti-abortion actors, who claim to be ‘journalists,’” Planned Parenthood of Greater Plains Emily Wales said. “We will continue following state and federal laws and proudly providing Missourians with the compassionate sexual and reproductive care that remains available to them in a state with a total abortion ban.”
Wales, claiming the video is &#8220;heavily doctored and edited,&#8221; <a href="https://apnews.com/article/missouri-abortion-lawsuit-minors-to-kansas-67ef30820213fc6cff8857ba68b8fe00">denied</a> that Planned Parenthood provides transportation for patients, the Associated Press reported. She also said that Kansas requires minors to either obtain parental consent or an order from a judge to get an abortion.
In Missouri, all abortion is effectively prohibited, though nearby states like Kansas and Illinois have legal abortion. Pills for medication abortions <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/04/13/us/abortion-pill-order-online-mifepristone.html#:~:text=There%20is%20less%20ambiguity%20for,But%20enforcement%20remains%20rare." target="_blank" rel="noopener">are</a> also being shipped into the state from outside activist groups.

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A group of red states filed a legal brief in support of Texas Governor Greg Abbot (R-TX) on Friday amid his battle with the Biden administration to keep buoys intended to deter illegal immigration in a portion of the Rio Grande. 
Led by Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, more than 20 Republican attorneys general filed an <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/02/USA-v.-Abbott-En-Banc-Amicus-Brief-Final7344146.1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">amicus brief</a> to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals backing Abbott’s bid to keep the barrier in the river. Abbott was sued by the Biden administration last year over the barriers and a federal judge ruled in favor of the federal government. Texas was able to  appeal and will be able <a href="https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/fifth-circuit-buoy-lawsuit-rio-grade-18613406.php#:~:text=Antonio%20Express%2DNews-,Gov.,the%20barrier%20from%20the%20river.">to keep</a> the barrier in while the case plays out at the appeals level. 
The brief says that the Biden administration has not done its job to protect the border and that Texas has a right to defend itself.
“The Constitution  guarantees the States’ right to self-defense expressly and as a natural  incident of the States’ status as sovereign entities,” a copy of the brief obtained by The Daily Wire said. “Here, however, the  federal government has sought to disable Texas’s exercise of that right  by claiming that it violates a federal law focused on the navigability of  the nation’s waterways, a law that does not expressly limit the States’  ability to engage in self-defense.”
The attorneys general go on to rip into the Biden administration for its policies at the border. 
“The current administration has not only failed to secure the border, but also has willfully enacted policies that have encouraged illegal immigration. The result: millions of illegal aliens crossing the southern border and continuing into the interior,” they wrote. &#8220;A flood of illegal immigration across the Southern  border that has brought with it crime, human trafficking, and hundreds  of thousands of fentanyl deaths to the people of this country. In both  scope and effect, the wave of illegal migrants pouring across the border  is like an invasion.&#8221;
In addition to Kansas, the states who signed onto the brief included Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia, Wyoming, and Virginia.
The brief argues that the court should allow Texas to keep the barrier in the Rio Grande because states have a constitutional right to self defense and that the Rivers and Harbors Act does not limit Texas’s ability to defend itself. The Biden administration has argued that the Rivers and Harbors Act prohibits Texas from putting any barriers in the Rio Grande. 
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti told The Daily Wire that the Volunteer State had helped file the brief because the state was being impacted by the border crisis. He said the case was an urgent policy matter as well as fundamentally being about constitutional principles. 
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“It’s not just important because immigration is important, we obviously have a real problem with illegal immigration right now, just the scale and the volume of people coming in and the inability of our existing institutions to deal with that,” Skrmetti said. “But separately this is an important matter of state sovereignty. We have a constitutional system that has both the federal government and the state governments as sovereign governments. And if a state’s not able to defend itself then it loses a key part of that sovereignty.” 
Skrmetti pointed out that state’s have a right to protect themselves from invasion, saying that unrestricted migration was “functionally an invasion” and could have detrimental effects on the country. 
“The federal government has abdicated its responsibility,” he said. “The Constitution is not a suicide pact and the states have a right and an obligation to engage in self-defense.”

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