The Week in the Rearview Mirror

The Make America Great Party filed papers with the Texas Secretary of State to form in Texas, setting the first pavestone for a third-party effort by New York celebrity businessman Donald Trump. They'd have to gather more than 49,000 signatures to get him on the ballot — all from registered voters who don't vote in either the primary or runoff elections — and submit those by May 28.

Movement conservatives looking for a "consensus" Republican candidate will meet at Paul and Nancy Pressler's Brenham ranch this weekend, according to Politico. Some apparently want an alternative to Mitt Romney coming out of the Republican primary; some just want a candidate who doesn't get so cut up that it weakens the GOP's chances in November. The Presslers, from Houston, have been supporters of Gov. Rick Perry.

Texas' new voter ID law, with an enactment date of January 1, didn't take effect. It's stuck at the U.S. Department of Justice, which hasn't pre-cleared the new law under the federal Voting Rights Act. The DOJ said the state didn't use the proper measure of the law's impact and has asked state officials to produce more information on the race and ethnicity of registered voters who, according to the state's records, don't have driver licenses or state photo IDs.

Boeing will move 300 to 400 jobs to San Antonio as it relocates maintenance facilities for Air Force One and similar planes from Wichita, Kansas. The company already has 2,800 workers in San Antonio.

On the last weekday of 2011, a federal court in Washington, DC, stayed the Environmental Protection Agency's controversial cross-state air pollution rule. That's a win for state officials, who call the rule a job-killer. Environmentalists hope to prevail in court hearings later this year; they favor the EPA rule.