Category: Senator John Cornyn

Mayorkas Says He’s ‘Not Aware’ Cartels Using Illegal Immigrants to Distract Border Agents

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testified at a Senate hearing on Tuesday that he is not aware of cartels using illegal immigrants as a decoy to distract border patrol agents while they smuggle drugs or other individuals across the border. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) asked Mayorkas specifically if he was familiar with the cartel…


Mayorkas Says He’s ‘Not Aware’ of Cartels Using Illegal Immigrants to Distract Border Agents

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testified at a Senate hearing on Tuesday that he is not aware of cartels using illegal immigrants as a decoy to distract border patrol agents while they smuggle drugs or other individuals across the border. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) asked Mayorkas specifically if he was familiar with the cartel…


FBI Lawyer Hoped Justice Department Would ‘Reconsider’ 2021 Memo on Alleged School Board Threats, Documents Reveal

Documents the FBI recently released show that a lawyer for the agency expressed her reservations about a draft version of U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland’s Oct. 4, 2021 memo that initiated a controversial federal effort to investigate alleged harassment at school board meetings around the country. The documents, which the America First Legal Foundation (AFL)…


8 US Senators Set to Visit El Paso Amid Ongoing Border Crisis

Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) announced that a party of eight U.S. Senators—three Democrat, four Republican, and one Independent—will visit the U.S.-Mexico border in El-Paso, Texas, to observe first hand what Sinema called “Washington’s failure.” Those joining them Monday and Tuesday will be Sens. James Lankford (R-Okla.), Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), Thom Tillis…


Cornyn Presses Supreme Court Nominee Over ‘Judicial Policymaking’

Concerns about the Supreme Court’s use of unenumerated rights to “transform society” were voiced by Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas), on the final day of questioning at the Senate Judicial Hearings in Washington D.C. on March 24. Unenumerated rights are those not specifically mentioned in the Constitution. Cornyn, a former trial judge and member of the…