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

• Gov. Greg Abbott’s response to the Department of Justice demanding he remove the Rio Grande buoy barrier system
• Texas book vendors suing over a state law that penalizes them for selling “explicit” books to schools
• Ken Paxton’s attorneys requesting a bill of particulars for the attorney general’s impeachment charges
• VA employees now able to request a religious accommodation from performing abortion procedures
• Texas withdrawing from a multi-state voter data sharing organization after transparency and impartiality concerns
• Texts revealing Texas House members’ anger about Paxton’s $3.3 million settlement funding request
• Sen. John Whitmire and Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee leading in the Houston mayoral race
• A Texas woman’s $1 million lawsuit over botched gender modification treatments she received as a teenager
• The attorneys for a lawsuit from Uvalde victim families facing criminal contempt charges in a $6 billion lawsuit
• Former Harris County employee Rick Noriega demanding $685,000 and an apology from Judge Lina Hidalgo
• An computer glitch causing Limestone County appraisal values and property taxes to skyrocket
• Aldine ISD planning to use eminent domain on a home to build its new football stadium parking lot