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

• An additional 9,800 babies born in Texas as a result of the state’s laws against abortion
• The state’s ERCOT grid setting a new energy demand record amid its first test this year in the Texas heat
• Paxton’s attorney saying that he will not testify in his upcoming impeachment trial
• The U.S. Supreme Court ruling that a web designer can refuse to make a website for a same-sex wedding
• A federal judge in Texas vacating a Biden administration rule against “ghost gun” gun kits
• Ken Paxton’s associate Nate Paul being tried on fraud charges prior to Paxton’s impeachment trial
• The U.S. Supreme Court overturning affirmative action in higher education admissions as “unconstitutional”
• Colin Allred branding himself as a moderate in his campaign against Sen. Ted Cruz
• Competing West Texas proposals for recapturing oil and gas taxes fail in Texas Senate
• The Texas Supreme Court passing on deciding the constitutionality of the governor’s emergency powers
• Federal border officials cutting barbed wire to allow illegal immigrants to cross and escape from the heat
• The City of Houston suing Texas over the state’s new local government preemption law
• A Dallas Walgreens partnering with a “sexual health services” clinic to offer sexual health care, including “gender-affirming car