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Texas said delta-8 is illegal. But state troopers haven’t made a single arrest.
BY KEVIN REYNOLDS at The Texas Tribune, NOV. 11, 2021 Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Over the past month, there has been increasing confusion over delta-8, the popular cannabis derivative that until recently could be found in vape cartridges, tinctures and candy
In wake of Astroworld tragedy, Texas creates new task force on concert safety
BY JOSHUA FECHTER at The Texas Tribune, NOV. 10, 2021 Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. A statewide task force will look for ways to beef up security at Texas concerts after the deaths of eight attendees at rapper Travis Scott’s performance during
U.S. Supreme Court justices appear reluctant to loosen restrictions on religious advisers during Texas executions
BY JOLIE MCCULLOUGH NOV. 9, 2021 Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The U.S. Supreme Court debated Tuesday whether the pastor of a Texas prisoner should be able to touch or audibly pray over him as the prisoner is executed. The justices largely
U.S. Supreme Court weighs religion’s place in the Texas death chamber
BY JOLIE MCCULLOUGH at The Texas Tribune, NOV. 9, 2021 Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Tuesday on the religious rights of those condemned to die in Texas. The justices, who have taken a
Delta-8 is legal in Texas — for now — after Travis County judge blocks state from criminalizing the cannabis extract
BY KEVIN REYNOLDS at The Texas Tribune, NOV. 8, 2021 Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Delta-8, the popular cannabis extract that was recently and suddenly outlawed in Texas, is temporarily legal again. State district court Judge Jan Soifer on Monday granted
In latest blunder, charges dropped against migrants arrested in Texas governor’s border crackdown because of faulty paperwork
BY JOLIE MCCULLOUGH at The Texas Tribune, NOV. 4, 2021 Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Trespassing charges filed against dozens of migrants arrested under Gov. Greg Abbott’s “catch and jail” border security initiative were dropped last week because court documents filed by
Rejecting claims of innocence, judge says Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed should not get a new trial
BY JOLIE MCCULLOUGH at The Texas Tribune, NOV. 1, 2021 Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. BASTROP — More than two decades after Rodney Reed was sentenced to death for the murder of 19-year-old Stacey Stites, doubts about his guilt and the role
