Democratic Women of Comal County

06/23/2026

06/23/2026

Read more here: https://www.democracydocket.com/cases/

Yet here we are, gearing up for another SCOTUS opinion day. Here's what we're tracking:

🏛️ Watson v. RNC
🏛️ Slaughter v. Trump
🏛️ Lisa Cook v. Trump et al
🏛️ "Barbara" et al. v. Trump et al.

Find details on all these cases and more at the link in our comments.

06/23/2026

“A federal judge in Washington D.C. blocked the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from using its citizenship database to remove voters from registration rolls, striking a significant blow against President Donald Trump’s unconstitutional attempt to take control of federal elections.

In her 75-page decision Monday, District Court Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan excoriated Trump and DHS’s implementation of his March 25 executive order for ignoring federal privacy laws as they overhauled the Systemic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system into a faulty citizenship checker.

“All in all, the federal government has knowingly trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right to vote,” District Court Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan wrote. “This Court cannot stand idly by while that happens.”

Trump’s order directed DHS to overhaul SAVE, taking a database of the immigration status of roughly 26.5 million people and turning it into a citizenship-checking system with access to the personal information of most Americans. The upgrades allowed for bulk searches using partial social security numbers and made the database freely available to state and local election officials.

The League of Women Voters led a coalition of voting and privacy advocates in challenging the changes to SAVE last year, suing DHS, the Social Security Administration (SSA) and other federal actors. While Sooknanan declined to issue a stay last November, she granted a summary judgment Monday, saying that the modification of the SAVE system violated the Social Security Act’s prohibition on disclosing social security numbers, various provisions of the 1974 Privacy Act, and the Administrative Procedure Act (APA).”

06/23/2026

Earlier we asked why?
From the Card Campaign: Heather Delaney writes a foreseeing essay about Tucker Carlson’s call for Republicans to abandon the GOP and its larger meaning for us. Don’t miss this excellent read.

06/23/2026

“Now that kissing ass no longer serves him, Cornyn is finally saying how he really feels about Trump, according to a sit-down interview in his D.C. office with online center-right publication Semafor.

“The president seems to revel in chaos, which is so different from any other leader that I’ve ever seen,” Cornyn told Semafor. “I don’t know about you, but I like to minimize the chaos in my life. He just seems to revel in it.”

Cornyn also took shots at Trump’s reliability.

Conversations with the president aren’t “particularly useful,” he said, “because he can and will change his mind depending on the next person he talks to on the phone.”

Now, Cornyn is using his leverage during the final months of his Senate career to withhold his vote on key Trump initiatives.

After a nearly yearlong delay in getting the Lone Star State reimbursed by the Trump administration for more than $10 billion in border security spending that Congress had already approved, Cornyn finally turned the tables on Trump. The senator is now dangling his vote like a carrot as lawmakers prepare to take up the administration’s new $70 billion immigration spending bill.

“Basically, I told Sen. [John] Barrasso and Sen. [John] Thune: ‘There’s a price for my vote, and it is to get the administration to release the money,’” Cornyn said. “Next thing I got is a call from [White House budget director] Russ Vought, and Russ said, ‘We’ll put a notice of funding.’”
https://www.sacurrent.com/news/sen-john-cornyn-turns-on-trump-says-president-revels-in-chaos/

After failing to win Trump’s backing and losing in the GOP primary, Cornyn has changed his tune about the president he sucked up to for more than a year.

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06/23/2026

Second video-

06/23/2026

First of two videos re: school funding: Rep. Donna Howard (HD-48) explains funding for Texas public education. Everyone needs to see this.