Victor Alcorta

GC & Sr. Advisor to Texas Speaker Burrows. 12th Generation Texan. Lawyer. Longhorn. BOI. Posts are my own.

[Jennifer Hackney-Szimanski @Jennifer_cleat]

Another murder suspect set free with Reduced charges, reduced bond…broken record. #txlege @realmitchlittle @cvasut @GovHotWheels_TX

[Victor Alcorta @vatres]

#txlege

[Austin Justice @AustinJustice]

Austin man shot 4 people inside a 6th St bar. Out on bond in 2 weeks with a GPS monitor.

Since then: a gun/drug felony (bonded out same day), now an armed robbery. Police know he drove the getaway car because of his ankle monitor.

From @hueyjayd:

https://t.co/8652JKS1xe

[Victor Alcorta @vatres]

#txlege

[Jen Robichaux @JenRobichaux]

"compassion without accountability is simply an industry"

Great substack from Austin Reform. Well worth the read
https://t.co/1xorH11Zrg

[Victor Alcorta @vatres]

@realmitchlittle @GhostMollyIvins @GhostMollyIvins Does that apply to Soros DAs too?

[Greg Abbott @GregAbbott_TX]

The Texas Supreme Court rules, for now, that Harris County cannot use tax dollars to fund illegal immigrant legal challenges to deportation.

That is not a function of county government.

It’s just another example of wasteful spending by local governments that must end.

[Bill Aleshire @AleshireLaw]

Gosh, in some counties theft of public funds would be prosecuted but not in Travis County where the DA got public funds to “harden” his home based on no actual threat at all. Would any of y’all like the County to give you a free home surveillance and security system?

[Brandon Waltens @bwaltens]

BREAKING: Congressional Republicans have launched an investigation into Travis County DA Jose Garza's immigration-related policies.

In a letter sent today, the House Judiciary Committee demanded years of records from Garza's office, alleging policies that shield illegal aliens from immigration enforcement.

[Victor Alcorta @vatres]

#txlege

[Austin Justice @AustinJustice]

AUSTIN MAN jailed on two armed robbery charges -- one with a machete, one with a gun -- beat another inmate's face bloody, twice in one day.

Berwans Cyril had every reason to assume he'd be let out anyway. Travis County had been giving him a pass for years.

Both robberies were first-degree felonies, the most serious charge short of murder. The machete case was dismissed, then quietly refiled. The handgun robbery was knocked down to a misdemeanor, as was an aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. A theft-of-firearm charge was waived. A felon caught carrying a gun was dismissed and refiled as a misdemeanor. Bond on the machete robbery: $1,000.

In 2019, Cyril met a college student at a 6th Street bar, and she wouldn't give him her number. He spent weeks hunting her down -- 7 fake Instagram accounts to beat her blocks, calling her his wife, showing up at her university homecoming to grab her arm, then returning days later to interrupt a dean's meeting looking for her. He cornered her twice more on 6th Street, shoving her to the ground until officers pulled him off.

That was one of 10 Austin police cases against him in under a year. Another was a sexual assault investigation, which the DA suspended.

[Victor Alcorta @vatres]

#txlege

[Holly Hansen @hollyshansen]

🧵The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the state's Office of the Attorney General will now have oversight over cases Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner tries to overturn.

[Victor Alcorta @vatres]

#txlege

[Jen Robichaux @JenRobichaux]

If you live in Austin and aren't outraged about Project Connect, you don't know the truth.

Austin Reform lays out it plainly. Grab a drink, take a seat, and dive in.
https://t.co/uySNCyYDwp

[Andrew Wilkow @WilkowMajority]

The people who created 40 Trillion in debt are angry that Elon Musk created 1 Trillion in wealth.

[Austin Justice @AustinJustice]

Angela Davis, the godmother of Soros prosecutors, stakes her entire case on a single claim: that incarceration and aggressive policing don't actually reduce crime.

Then consider New York. After years of staggering violence, the city ran exactly that experiment -- and the results, as documented in @PeterMoskos's book, demolish the claim:

- Murders fell 70% over the 1990s.
- The steepest drop followed 1994, when the NYPD embraced proactive policing and Compstat (the data-driven system that mapped crime in real time and held precinct commanders accountable for driving it down.) Nearly 20% fewer murders a year, five years running.
- Across two decades, murders fell 87% even as the population grew, dropping below 300 in a city of 8 million.

If Davis and the prosecutors who follow her truly want what's best for the communities they call oppressed, New York should thrill them. The lives saved were overwhelmingly in those very neighborhoods. More than 90% of the city's shooting victims were black or Hispanic -- so driving murder down rescued them directly.

Tens of thousands of mostly minority New Yorkers are alive today because cops, prosecutors, and prisons did what a generation of academics swore couldn't be done.

That's the strange thing about this moment: We're being asked to unlearn something we already proved, at enormous cost, within living memory.

[Greg Abbott @GregAbbott_TX]

This is why I am calling for a new State Prosecutor position filled by someone who will actually prosecute criminals.

Also why we must empower the Legislature to impeach DAs who refuse to do their job.

Brown was released from the Travis County Jail in March after receiving a five-year deferred adjudication community supervision sentence following a negotiated plea of guilty for a felony indecent exposure in 2024, which also took place in West Campus.

He has a long list of other crimes.

[Dustin Burrows @Burrows4TX]

The time for Republican infighting is over. The only fight that matters is the one ahead.

Today, I addressed the @TexasGOP Convention with delegates, grassroots leaders, party advocates, and conservatives from every corner of our state to deliver a message I believe is critical to the future of our movement.

I knew I might receive a mixed reception, but the stakes are too high to stay silent.

A bruising primary season is behind us. Now, our focus must be on November. Republicans have delivered historic victories for Texas, but our job is not finished. To keep Texas on the right track, we must come together, rally behind our nominees, and support the Republican ticket from top to bottom.

We are one party with one mission. Together, let’s defend our conservative values and keep Texas red.

[Victor Alcorta @vatres]

#txlege

[Austin Justice @AustinJustice]

In January 2021, Austin’s top two prosecutors entered office and decided which laws they would stop enforcing. Here is what they promised.🧵

[Victor Alcorta @vatres]

IYKYK

[Alex @ajak1033]

The Spurs know how to TAKE the lead, they just don't know how to HOLD the lead. And that's really the most important part of the lead: the holding

[Victor Alcorta @vatres]

@_delconte 🫡🤘🏼

[Danny Davis @_dannydavis]

The Texas athletic department has now won 71 national championships in its history. Eighteen of those titles (or 25.4%) have come since Chris Del Conte was hired as the Longhorns' athletic director in December 2017. #HookEm

[Texas Softball @TexasSoftball]

YOUR TEXAS LONGHORNS ARE NATIONAL CHAMPIONS… AGAIN 🤘🏆

#HookEm

[Victor Alcorta @vatres]

@LASimmonsTX146 Let’s go!🤘🏼

[C3 @C_3C_3]

California…

Theres Hospice fraud but no voter fraud.

Theres Homeless fraud but no voter fraud.

Theres Medicaid fraud but no voter fraud.

Theres Welfare fraud but no voter fraud.

Theres major fraud everywhere but no voter fraud?

Thats what Legacy Media wants us to think.