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#BREAK­ING Mul­ti­ple sources tell me the Governor’s office has ordered TDCJ to clear out the pris­on­ers from one state prison — Briscoe Unit — so it can hold immi­grants picked up by Texas state troop­ers for low-level charges as part of Oper­a­tion Lone Star.

Courts are closed tomor­row for June­teenth. My incar­cer­ated clients, all of whom are black men, will remain in jail to cel­e­brate the eman­ci­pa­tion of slaves. This is America.

To any­one who thinks the pan­demic is end­ing, here’s what global vac­ci­na­tion rates look like: 

Joe Biden has now appointed more Black peo­ple to the fed­eral appel­late bench than Trump did in his entire presidency.

Biden has appointed exactly one fed­eral appel­late judge.