Weekly Roundup - August 26, 2022

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This week on The Texan’s Weekly Roundup, the team discusses: 

• A federal judge siding with Texas on a law mandating abortion as emergency care 
• Pro-choice groups suing to overturn statutes preventing Texans from traveling out-of-state for abortions 
• A new Samsung facility bringing big changes to the town of Taylor 
• A disbarred Dallas lawyer sentenced for laundering hundreds of thousands of dollars 
• A school district restoring the Bible and an Anne Frank novel to its shelves 
• BlackRock making the list of companies listed by the comptroller as fossil fuel divestors 
• A state representative being ordered to pay over a million dollars for legal malpractice 
• "In God We Trust" posters flooding Texas schools after a new law 
• President Biden proposing a new student loan debt relief program 
• Governor Abbott alleging the EPA used faulty data to justify monitoring the Permian Basin