The Week in the Rearview Mirror

A Texas-based Planned Parenthood affiliate on Thursday moved to join a federal lawsuit filed in California against the anti-abortion group behind undercover videos of the organization’s clinics.

A Collin County grand jury looking into a 2004 land sale tied to a business group involving Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has decided to drop its investigation, a lawyer for the McKinney Republican said Wednesday.

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz picked up two key endorsements Wednesday: one from former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and another from powerful conservative group Club for Growth. 

U.S. Reps. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, and Blake Farenthold, R-Corpus Christi, have introduced legislation designed to roll back the automatic benefits and legal status that Cuban immigrants receive shortly after reaching U.S. ports.

Ted Cruz on Tuesday night split two Republican nominating contests with Donald Trump, defeating the billionaire in Utah but getting blown out by him in Arizona. Cruz was set to win the Utah caucuses with 69 percent of the vote, putting him on track to collect all 40 of the state's delegates.

Former Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Brian Encinia appeared before a state district judge Tuesday and entered a not guilty plea to a perjury charge stemming from his arrest of Sandra Bland.

Texas regulators on Thursday approved the Ray L. Hunt family’s high-stakes plan to purchase and reshape the state's largest electric utility. But they added major revisions, prolonging the battle to own Oncor.

In another major case concerning Texas women’s reproductive care, the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday will consider if the right to religious freedom is broad enough to completely exempt nonprofits with religious objections to birth control from providing women access to it through their insurance plans.

As Americans were learning about the latest terrorist attacks in Western Europe, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz called for law enforcement targeting of Muslim neighborhoods, while also taking swipes at both President Barack Obama and Donald Trump. 

Speaking in Manhattan Wednesday, Ted Cruz sought to find common cause with New York Republicans and reconcile his bashing of “New York values.” Cruz is seeking to perform well in the state’s Republican presidential primary to catch up with Donald Trump in the hunt for delegates.

Texas’ suburban population continues to surge with growth in some suburban counties outpacing  the state’s biggest cities, new U.S. Census Bureau Figures show. Texas gained almost half a million new residents from July 2014 to July 2015. Hays County, between Austin and San Antonio, was again the state's fastest growing county, and ranked fifth in the nation.

During an hours-long committee on border security and immigration Wednesday, Republican Bexar County Sheriff Susan Pamerleau was called out for doing what some argue only Democrats do: Let deportable immigrants out of jail.

Disclosure: Oncor was a corporate sponsor of The Texas Tribune in 2012. Planned Parenthood was a corporate sponsor in 2011. A complete list of Tribune donors and sponsors can be viewed here.