August 7, 2025 • 22 mins
On the Salcedo Storm Podcast:
Travis Morgan covers legal issues for the Texas Scorecard.
Travis Morgan covers legal issues for the Texas Scorecard.
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Constitution, the rule of law. You know, we conservatives take
it quite seriously, and frankly, there's a there's a really
logical reason why we should adhere to the rule of law,
and the rule of law should be dispensed dispassionately. You
know that Lady Justice has a blindfold on because the
law applies it's supposed to to everybody. And when a
(01:05):
population determines that the law is not going to be
applied equally, then resentments build up. If favoritism is showed,
then resentments take over and you start to get the seasonings,
if you will, for the dissolution of unity between a people.
(01:26):
The constitution binds us together. The rule of law binds
us together because we agree that is our mutual compact.
And when some of us declare themselves above that law,
it erodes that bond and we cease to be a
united people, a United States of America. But we have
(01:46):
a group of people in this country called Democrats socialists, leftists, Marxists,
they have through a perverted, warped worldview. They have determined
the laws don't apply to them if it gets in
the way of what they believe. For example, they believe
that illegal aliens should come in here from one hundred
and sixty eight countries, be given the vote to be
(02:08):
able to change our constitution to get out of their way.
The constitutions in their way, so they want to do
away with it. Right, So they believe that, because this
needs to happen for them politically, that illegal immigration should
be ignored. And the Democrat Party has been undertaking that
operation in earnest for the last two decades, flooding this
(02:28):
country with criminal, illegal aliens, and of course we pay
the price for it, folks, and then to cover up
for their illegality the Democrats. The Democrats say, well, the
illegal aliens, even if they come in and they do
horrific things to Americans, we got to let them go.
We've got to have we can't deport them. We've got
(02:48):
to have them here so that our agenda can be fulfilled.
We don't want the American people to get the idea
that it's permissible to kick illegal aliens out of the
country and even though they have no business being here
to begin with. We can't allow the American people to think,
say the Democrats, that illegal aliens could be kicked to
the curb, sent back to their own home their own
home countries. So the Democrats go to battle for some
(03:12):
of the most disgusting and disgraceful and violent and harmful
individuals that the world has sent to the United States
to cross our into our country illegally. Uh. There is
this example up in Chicago and illegal alien was arrested
and brought before a judge and turns out that he
(03:35):
cut off a woman's head, put her into a container,
and corrupted her body for a couple of months. And
then and then, instead of holding this illegal alien in custody,
because I says, oh thanks, you got this this criminal
illegal alien, we let to aport him, the judge lets
him go. That the guy is accused of of decapitating
(03:56):
a woman, and the judge says, well, I can't allow
an illegal alien to be deported by ice, so I'm
going to let him go and put everybody's lives at risk.
We remember this whacked out, kooky judge that had illegal
alien another illegal alien appearing before her in court, so
called Judge Hannah Dugan. Hannah Dugan had the illegal alien
(04:19):
in her court. She got word that Ice was in
the court looking for this criminal that was appearing before her,
and she escorted showed the illegal alien a secret passageway
out of the court so as to avoid being arrested
by Ice. This is what democrats do in violation of
(04:41):
the law, and it's lawlessness that builds up on other lawlessness.
The what Barak Hussein Obama did to President Trump, right,
the Russia collusion hoax. What do we see there, folks.
We saw Barack Hussein Obama make up fabricate charges against
(05:02):
President Trump so as to start a and that was
a lie, right because he had Obama had intelligence, his
own intelligence agency said, there is no proof that Russia
has the ability or it was even successful in meddling
in our elections. There's no evidence of that. But Obama
(05:23):
suppressed the truth as to create a narrative, saying, oh, yeah,
Russia interfered in the election. That's why Hillary lost, and
it was Trump Russia collusion. So then, so the first
lie was, oh Russia, Russia was not or was interfering
in our election. Well, no, they weren't. So then they
create another lie. Trump colluded with Russia to make that happen,
(05:47):
so that that was a and that was another lawless act.
Then they launched the investigation. They lied to a FISA
court four times, lied to af FISA court, fabricated evidence again,
more illegality built up to cover the previous illegality, to
cover up the previous illegality. That's what has been going on.
(06:09):
And the only reason why Democrats are allowed to continue
to break the law in perpetuity is because of the
timidity of Republicans and it's lawlessness, yes, but there's also
just the practical matter of governing. You guys probably heard
about this, Uh the August recess for the Senate. They're
(06:35):
supposed to go on a month long vacation, you know,
because they do such a great job up there, right.
So anyway, Democrats have been undertaking historic and for those
of you out there who are products of Gov. Ed recently,
that means it's never happened before, unprecedented another way of
saying that never happened before. Obstruction against Trump nominees. These
(06:55):
nominees need to get to work. It's been six months.
The Democrats have done this, and you know what, John
Thune was talking about this extensively over the last couple
of weeks. Well, chom Thune had a choice to punish
Democrats for their obstruction and not getting work done. He
could have made them pay a price and say you
work through the August recess, no vacation for you. So
(07:18):
and as of the time of the recording of this podcast,
no decision on that has been made. Folks. We talk
about legal issues that are confronting the state of Texas.
Do that next on the Salsado Storm podcast. And now
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Speaker 1 (11:08):
Today right folkst's get to our guest. His name is
Travis Morgan. He's new. He covers legal issues for the
Texas Scorecard. Welcome man, Thank you for having me. Chris
pleasures mine. Look, you have a lot on your plate,
a lot of legal issues here in the state of
Texas to tackle, and I guess one of these and
this is something that we've been those of us who
(11:29):
believe in the conservative movement. The more local you get,
the more protected you are because those people are supposed
to adhere to you. You can actually walk into city council,
you can actually walk in and see those people are
making decisions. But you're covering some stories about local municipalities
that are going hog wild on regulations.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
What do you find right local municipalities and especially you
know what happens when you get into big cities and
how they tend to lean and if they have an
opportunity to institute red tape on businesses, they might do so,
and they have done so. So this all started back
in twenty eighteen. The Austin City Council approved an ordinance
that forced every business to provide paid sick leave to employees,
(12:10):
and that was of course promoted by the Democratic Socialists
of America, and a lot of business owners were upset
about that because that cost is going to have to
be instituted somewhere, and so a lot of talk started
going on about, well has historically local municipalities been instituting
such ordinances, and that was never the case. It was
(12:31):
always the state government that took control of such issues.
So in twenty twenty three, the Regulatory Consistency Act was passed,
which was meant to basically create consistency across the state
on such issues as agriculture, business and commerce, finance, labor.
It was going to be the state's responsibility for creating
(12:52):
ordinances and local municipalities were no longer going to be
able to create these tyrannical laws.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Well right, and because you understand why, because if you're
doing a business in Fort Worth, you still want to
be able to have the same parameters if you're going
to be doing business in Dallas. So it makes a
lot of sense, you know, I there are some of
these cities that pass smoking ordinances. You know, they don't
like cigars, they don't like cigarettes, and not being a smoker,
you know, I can understand why why some why certain
(13:21):
people would want that. But then you know there's also
these these speakeasy bars that are specialized that you know,
they want to have a cigar every once in a
while they want to, but in certain municipalities you can't
do that anymore. So businesses are being shuttered out of
these areas. Are you covering that kind of that kind
(13:41):
of impact of these local ordinances? Right?
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Yeah, And just on that issue. Businesses were upset about
this issue from the beginning because if you were a
business owner and you wanted to open a second store
in let's say, just the city over, they might have
completely different red tape that you have to go through
that you had no idea about. And I like to
think that Texas is a pro business culture or wants
(14:04):
to be used to be. And that's part of what
this act did was allow some peace of mind. Because
this is the interesting thing, Chris, is that critics of
the Regulatory Consistency Act called it the death Star Bill,
as if it was some big government issue, and in reality,
it was tyrannical local ordinances that it was taking control
(14:28):
away from and keeping it at the state level, which
ultimately just creates less regulation on businesses.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Right, which is again, there needed to be somebody minding
the store, so there needed to be some level playing
field that the rules across the board you don't want
to encroach on certain communities and their rights to distinguish
themselves from other communities. At the same time, you don't
want to create a regulatory burden for your businesses. Like
you said that, it's one set of criteria for this city,
(15:00):
another set of crime here for another city. That would
be enough to bankrupt the company, and certain companies could
thrive in one city and be destitute in another because
of those regulations. Folks were talking to Travis Morgan, he
covers legal issues for the Texas Scorecard. I guess one
of the more egregious violators of this premise of wanting
(15:21):
to have an equal playing field is the City of Dallas.
But they did something more than just pass regulations. They
actually passed regulations that ran counter to state law. Yes, correct.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
So the City of Dallas really shot themselves in the
foot regarding the Regulatory Consistency Act because when it was
just going through the state legislature, they sent out a
memorandum to the District one h three representative and it
basically listed out all of the ordinances that if the
Regulatory Consistency Act were to be passed, we're going to
(15:56):
be affected. Essentially, they were going to no longer be legal,
and so after the Act was passing twenty twenty three,
they kept enforcing those ordinances against state law. And so
what the Texas Public Policy Foundation did is they basically
wrote a long letter to the City of Dallas threatening
legal action if Dallas continues to enforce those ordinances.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Yet, you know, they've got a Republican mayor. Now I
would imagine this was mostly at the behest of their
left wing city council that told them that they should
be breaking state law. Right.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Yeah, we don't have an answer from the City of
Dallas yet on what's going to happen. And I'm very
curious following this case. If there is going to be
legal action taken against them, we're certainly going to be
following that absolutely.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
So what are some of the other municipalities are the
legal issues maybe not regulatory, but just other legal issues
you're following, are possibly being able to write up on
in the coming days and weeks.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Oh, gooness. There is really reporting is a gold mine.
As we found out we got into it. I'm the
first court reporter we've had, and it's really just a
gold mine. There are NonStop issues and it's not just
covering cases that are interesting to Texans, because there is that, certainly,
but also being a watchdog for the courts because not
many people do that. Not everybody knows what's going on,
(17:19):
and not just the state of Texas but other states.
Not many people know what's going on in state courts.
So yes, following cases, but also judges. What are judges doing,
what precedents are they setting, how are they ruling? Is
there any corruption going on? And some judges have been
under investigation for various issues and suspended, and so we're
also covering those types of cases as well, which is
(17:41):
very interesting, and I think it's just the type of
thing that Texans need to know about that maybe they
haven't in the past.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Sure enough, and you know the conduct of judges. I'm
glad you brought that up, because there we have been
plagued in certain left wing what Rick Perry dubbed the
blueberries and the tomato soup, in those left wing municipalities
where these judges have been well doing some pretty sick
and twisted stuff like, for example, letting out hardened criminals
(18:10):
to plague citizens. I have not seen this recently in Texas,
but maybe you know that's going on, but I've seen
it in other states where judges are letting out criminal,
illegal aliens or illegal aliens that are accused of doing
horrific crimes like killing people and storing their bodies, their corrupted,
(18:33):
decapitated bodies in certain containers, and then these judges letting
them out so that ice can't arrest them and deport them.
We have cases like that here in Texas.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Not that I know of right now, but there is
a lot of That's just the reality is that judges
are people. Judges are political just as we are political,
and unfortunately not everybody is so principled us to not
let that get into the way of their job. And
being judge is a very important job. You have to
be very principled in it. You can't let your emotions
get in the way or your personal beliefs get in
the way, especially in the way of law enforcement in
(19:09):
that state, when you're supposed to be somebody upholding the
law and enforcing the law. So it is a serious
issue across the country that needs to be watched, and
that's precisely why we need to watch the courts and
watch judges and pay attention to these things.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Well, the legal battle is going to be heating up
over President Trump's desire to have redisseting in the state
of Texas other states too, but here as well. And
we're anticipating a flurry of legal challenges from the Democrat
Socialist Party about these new lines that are being proposed
and been ballyhooed here over the last couple of weeks.
(19:46):
What are you following in that regard anything yet?
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Yeah, I know there is a case and I'll pass.
So there's a few cases across the state right now.
It's a little too early to comment much on, but
I know it's whenever there's a huge issue in this
That's what's interesting about covering courts is you start seeing
them pop up in the courts all over the place.
It really is a political institution as well, and so
we will be following those closely as well and covering them.
(20:11):
But the redistricting, it was today that they came out
with the maps of the new districts, and so we're
delving deeply into that and analyzing all that new information.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Sure, folks, we're talking at Travis Morgan, he covers legal
issues for Texas Scorecard. What's the next bit of journalism
you are working on. That'll be coming out of the
pages of Texas Scorecard here in the next next day
or so, or maybe a week or so.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Well, going through judges who have been suspended is always interesting,
and there's one. It was a while back, but it's
just getting to the courts, still working its way through
the courts. There was a judge suspended for cattle theft,
and if that isn't the most Texas case I've ever
heard of, So yeah, the State Commission on Judicial Conduct
suspended him without pay. He petitioned to have that removed,
(20:58):
but they upheld it, and so that is still all ongoing.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Yeah, you get them the way every districting well maybe
we can talk. But you steal a man's cow, you
steal a man's cattle, that's just that that's just something
that cannot be tolerated in the state and the great
state of Texas. Absolutely. Travis Morgan, Welcome to the Texas
Scorecard team. Thanks for carving on the time here for
the Salsado Storm podcast.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Thank you so much, Chris.
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Constitution, the rule of law. You know, we conservatives take
it quite seriously, and frankly, there's a there's a really
logical reason why we should adhere to the rule of law,
and the rule of law should be dispensed dispassionately. You
know that Lady Justice has a blindfold on because the
law applies it's supposed to to everybody. And when a
(01:05):
population determines that the law is not going to be
applied equally, then resentments build up. If favoritism is showed,
then resentments take over and you start to get the seasonings,
if you will, for the dissolution of unity between a people.
(01:26):
The constitution binds us together. The rule of law binds
us together because we agree that is our mutual compact.
And when some of us declare themselves above that law,
it erodes that bond and we cease to be a
united people, a United States of America. But we have
(01:46):
a group of people in this country called Democrats socialists, leftists, Marxists,
they have through a perverted, warped worldview. They have determined
the laws don't apply to them if it gets in
the way of what they believe. For example, they believe
that illegal aliens should come in here from one hundred
and sixty eight countries, be given the vote to be
(02:08):
able to change our constitution to get out of their way.
The constitutions in their way, so they want to do
away with it. Right, So they believe that, because this
needs to happen for them politically, that illegal immigration should
be ignored. And the Democrat Party has been undertaking that
operation in earnest for the last two decades, flooding this
(02:28):
country with criminal, illegal aliens, and of course we pay
the price for it, folks, and then to cover up
for their illegality the Democrats. The Democrats say, well, the
illegal aliens, even if they come in and they do
horrific things to Americans, we got to let them go.
We've got to have we can't deport them. We've got
(02:48):
to have them here so that our agenda can be fulfilled.
We don't want the American people to get the idea
that it's permissible to kick illegal aliens out of the
country and even though they have no business being here
to begin with. We can't allow the American people to think,
say the Democrats, that illegal aliens could be kicked to
the curb, sent back to their own home their own
home countries. So the Democrats go to battle for some
(03:12):
of the most disgusting and disgraceful and violent and harmful
individuals that the world has sent to the United States
to cross our into our country illegally. Uh. There is
this example up in Chicago and illegal alien was arrested
and brought before a judge and turns out that he
(03:35):
cut off a woman's head, put her into a container,
and corrupted her body for a couple of months. And
then and then, instead of holding this illegal alien in custody,
because I says, oh thanks, you got this this criminal
illegal alien, we let to aport him, the judge lets
him go. That the guy is accused of of decapitating
(03:56):
a woman, and the judge says, well, I can't allow
an illegal alien to be deported by ice, so I'm
going to let him go and put everybody's lives at risk.
We remember this whacked out, kooky judge that had illegal
alien another illegal alien appearing before her in court, so
called Judge Hannah Dugan. Hannah Dugan had the illegal alien
(04:19):
in her court. She got word that Ice was in
the court looking for this criminal that was appearing before her,
and she escorted showed the illegal alien a secret passageway
out of the court so as to avoid being arrested
by Ice. This is what democrats do in violation of
(04:41):
the law, and it's lawlessness that builds up on other lawlessness.
The what Barak Hussein Obama did to President Trump, right,
the Russia collusion hoax. What do we see there, folks.
We saw Barack Hussein Obama make up fabricate charges against
(05:02):
President Trump so as to start a and that was
a lie, right because he had Obama had intelligence, his
own intelligence agency said, there is no proof that Russia
has the ability or it was even successful in meddling
in our elections. There's no evidence of that. But Obama
(05:23):
suppressed the truth as to create a narrative, saying, oh, yeah,
Russia interfered in the election. That's why Hillary lost, and
it was Trump Russia collusion. So then, so the first
lie was, oh Russia, Russia was not or was interfering
in our election. Well, no, they weren't. So then they
create another lie. Trump colluded with Russia to make that happen,
(05:47):
so that that was a and that was another lawless act.
Then they launched the investigation. They lied to a FISA
court four times, lied to af FISA court, fabricated evidence again,
more illegality built up to cover the previous illegality, to
cover up the previous illegality. That's what has been going on.
(06:09):
And the only reason why Democrats are allowed to continue
to break the law in perpetuity is because of the
timidity of Republicans and it's lawlessness, yes, but there's also
just the practical matter of governing. You guys probably heard
about this, Uh the August recess for the Senate. They're
(06:35):
supposed to go on a month long vacation, you know,
because they do such a great job up there, right.
So anyway, Democrats have been undertaking historic and for those
of you out there who are products of Gov. Ed recently,
that means it's never happened before, unprecedented another way of
saying that never happened before. Obstruction against Trump nominees. These
(06:55):
nominees need to get to work. It's been six months.
The Democrats have done this, and you know what, John
Thune was talking about this extensively over the last couple
of weeks. Well, chom Thune had a choice to punish
Democrats for their obstruction and not getting work done. He
could have made them pay a price and say you
work through the August recess, no vacation for you. So
(07:18):
and as of the time of the recording of this podcast,
no decision on that has been made. Folks. We talk
about legal issues that are confronting the state of Texas.
Do that next on the Salsado Storm podcast. And now
a word from our sponsors. Oh jeez, if I hear
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Speaker 1 (11:08):
Today right folkst's get to our guest. His name is
Travis Morgan. He's new. He covers legal issues for the
Texas Scorecard. Welcome man, Thank you for having me. Chris
pleasures mine. Look, you have a lot on your plate,
a lot of legal issues here in the state of
Texas to tackle, and I guess one of these and
this is something that we've been those of us who
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believe in the conservative movement. The more local you get,
the more protected you are because those people are supposed
to adhere to you. You can actually walk into city council,
you can actually walk in and see those people are
making decisions. But you're covering some stories about local municipalities
that are going hog wild on regulations.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
What do you find right local municipalities and especially you
know what happens when you get into big cities and
how they tend to lean and if they have an
opportunity to institute red tape on businesses, they might do so,
and they have done so. So this all started back
in twenty eighteen. The Austin City Council approved an ordinance
that forced every business to provide paid sick leave to employees,
(12:10):
and that was of course promoted by the Democratic Socialists
of America, and a lot of business owners were upset
about that because that cost is going to have to
be instituted somewhere, and so a lot of talk started
going on about, well has historically local municipalities been instituting
such ordinances, and that was never the case. It was
(12:31):
always the state government that took control of such issues.
So in twenty twenty three, the Regulatory Consistency Act was passed,
which was meant to basically create consistency across the state
on such issues as agriculture, business and commerce, finance, labor.
It was going to be the state's responsibility for creating
(12:52):
ordinances and local municipalities were no longer going to be
able to create these tyrannical laws.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Well right, and because you understand why, because if you're
doing a business in Fort Worth, you still want to
be able to have the same parameters if you're going
to be doing business in Dallas. So it makes a
lot of sense, you know, I there are some of
these cities that pass smoking ordinances. You know, they don't
like cigars, they don't like cigarettes, and not being a smoker,
you know, I can understand why why some why certain
(13:21):
people would want that. But then you know there's also
these these speakeasy bars that are specialized that you know,
they want to have a cigar every once in a
while they want to, but in certain municipalities you can't
do that anymore. So businesses are being shuttered out of
these areas. Are you covering that kind of that kind
(13:41):
of impact of these local ordinances? Right?
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Yeah, And just on that issue. Businesses were upset about
this issue from the beginning because if you were a
business owner and you wanted to open a second store
in let's say, just the city over, they might have
completely different red tape that you have to go through
that you had no idea about. And I like to
think that Texas is a pro business culture or wants
(14:04):
to be used to be. And that's part of what
this act did was allow some peace of mind. Because
this is the interesting thing, Chris, is that critics of
the Regulatory Consistency Act called it the death Star Bill,
as if it was some big government issue, and in reality,
it was tyrannical local ordinances that it was taking control
(14:28):
away from and keeping it at the state level, which
ultimately just creates less regulation on businesses.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Right, which is again, there needed to be somebody minding
the store, so there needed to be some level playing
field that the rules across the board you don't want
to encroach on certain communities and their rights to distinguish
themselves from other communities. At the same time, you don't
want to create a regulatory burden for your businesses. Like
you said that, it's one set of criteria for this city,
(15:00):
another set of crime here for another city. That would
be enough to bankrupt the company, and certain companies could
thrive in one city and be destitute in another because
of those regulations. Folks were talking to Travis Morgan, he
covers legal issues for the Texas Scorecard. I guess one
of the more egregious violators of this premise of wanting
(15:21):
to have an equal playing field is the City of Dallas.
But they did something more than just pass regulations. They
actually passed regulations that ran counter to state law. Yes, correct.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
So the City of Dallas really shot themselves in the
foot regarding the Regulatory Consistency Act because when it was
just going through the state legislature, they sent out a
memorandum to the District one h three representative and it
basically listed out all of the ordinances that if the
Regulatory Consistency Act were to be passed, we're going to
(15:56):
be affected. Essentially, they were going to no longer be legal,
and so after the Act was passing twenty twenty three,
they kept enforcing those ordinances against state law. And so
what the Texas Public Policy Foundation did is they basically
wrote a long letter to the City of Dallas threatening
legal action if Dallas continues to enforce those ordinances.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Yet, you know, they've got a Republican mayor. Now I
would imagine this was mostly at the behest of their
left wing city council that told them that they should
be breaking state law. Right.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Yeah, we don't have an answer from the City of
Dallas yet on what's going to happen. And I'm very
curious following this case. If there is going to be
legal action taken against them, we're certainly going to be
following that absolutely.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
So what are some of the other municipalities are the
legal issues maybe not regulatory, but just other legal issues
you're following, are possibly being able to write up on
in the coming days and weeks.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Oh, gooness. There is really reporting is a gold mine.
As we found out we got into it. I'm the
first court reporter we've had, and it's really just a
gold mine. There are NonStop issues and it's not just
covering cases that are interesting to Texans, because there is that, certainly,
but also being a watchdog for the courts because not
many people do that. Not everybody knows what's going on,
(17:19):
and not just the state of Texas but other states.
Not many people know what's going on in state courts.
So yes, following cases, but also judges. What are judges doing,
what precedents are they setting, how are they ruling? Is
there any corruption going on? And some judges have been
under investigation for various issues and suspended, and so we're
also covering those types of cases as well, which is
(17:41):
very interesting, and I think it's just the type of
thing that Texans need to know about that maybe they
haven't in the past.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Sure enough, and you know the conduct of judges. I'm
glad you brought that up, because there we have been
plagued in certain left wing what Rick Perry dubbed the
blueberries and the tomato soup, in those left wing municipalities
where these judges have been well doing some pretty sick
and twisted stuff like, for example, letting out hardened criminals
(18:10):
to plague citizens. I have not seen this recently in Texas,
but maybe you know that's going on, but I've seen
it in other states where judges are letting out criminal,
illegal aliens or illegal aliens that are accused of doing
horrific crimes like killing people and storing their bodies, their corrupted,
(18:33):
decapitated bodies in certain containers, and then these judges letting
them out so that ice can't arrest them and deport them.
We have cases like that here in Texas.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Not that I know of right now, but there is
a lot of That's just the reality is that judges
are people. Judges are political just as we are political,
and unfortunately not everybody is so principled us to not
let that get into the way of their job. And
being judge is a very important job. You have to
be very principled in it. You can't let your emotions
get in the way or your personal beliefs get in
the way, especially in the way of law enforcement in
(19:09):
that state, when you're supposed to be somebody upholding the
law and enforcing the law. So it is a serious
issue across the country that needs to be watched, and
that's precisely why we need to watch the courts and
watch judges and pay attention to these things.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Well, the legal battle is going to be heating up
over President Trump's desire to have redisseting in the state
of Texas other states too, but here as well. And
we're anticipating a flurry of legal challenges from the Democrat
Socialist Party about these new lines that are being proposed
and been ballyhooed here over the last couple of weeks.
(19:46):
What are you following in that regard anything yet?
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Yeah, I know there is a case and I'll pass.
So there's a few cases across the state right now.
It's a little too early to comment much on, but
I know it's whenever there's a huge issue in this
That's what's interesting about covering courts is you start seeing
them pop up in the courts all over the place.
It really is a political institution as well, and so
we will be following those closely as well and covering them.
(20:11):
But the redistricting, it was today that they came out
with the maps of the new districts, and so we're
delving deeply into that and analyzing all that new information.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Sure, folks, we're talking at Travis Morgan, he covers legal
issues for Texas Scorecard. What's the next bit of journalism
you are working on. That'll be coming out of the
pages of Texas Scorecard here in the next next day
or so, or maybe a week or so.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Well, going through judges who have been suspended is always interesting,
and there's one. It was a while back, but it's
just getting to the courts, still working its way through
the courts. There was a judge suspended for cattle theft,
and if that isn't the most Texas case I've ever
heard of, So yeah, the State Commission on Judicial Conduct
suspended him without pay. He petitioned to have that removed,
(20:58):
but they upheld it, and so that is still all ongoing.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Yeah, you get them the way every districting well maybe
we can talk. But you steal a man's cow, you
steal a man's cattle, that's just that that's just something
that cannot be tolerated in the state and the great
state of Texas. Absolutely. Travis Morgan, Welcome to the Texas
Scorecard team. Thanks for carving on the time here for
the Salsado Storm podcast.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Thank you so much, Chris.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
That puts a wrap in the Salsado Storm podcast. Do
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front page. Until we visit again, my friends, Remember this,
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by government. A society's worth is measured by how much
power is reserved for you and me. We the people,
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keep fighting for freedom out there, my friends,
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