Another federal judge has ordered school districts to remove Ten Commandments posters. U.S. District Judge Orlando L. Garcia has instructed seven Dallas-area school districts to remove classroom posters of the Ten Commandments that were mandated by the passage of Senate Bill 10 this summer. SB 10 requires every public school classroom in Texas to hang a poster of the Ten Commandments in a conspicuous place, and it had already been challenged by one court before this week. 👉 To learn more, read

More men are getting vasectomies in Texas, but it wasn’t always that way. The change can be traced back to June 24, 2022, when the Supreme Court reversed the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, returning abortion to a state’s right issue, says Dr. Esgar Guarin. The general practitioner has exclusively performed vasectomies for the last six years, ballparking 8,000 in his medical career, and around 80 each month. Following the court’s decision, Guarin says his clinic experienced a 100%

Tommy Lee Walker’s prosecution was a particular point of pain for Dallas’ Black community in the ‘50s. Black Dallasites showed up by the thousands to stand outside the Dallas County courthouse during the trial, and reporting by Dallas’ Black newspaper, The Dallas Express, stated that 5,000 people attended Walker’s viewing after he was executed. At a time when race relations between Dallas’ Black and white communities were in upheaval, the case contributed to the harm that “many still feel,” jour