From the Washington Post, Texas AG says judge and other officials arrested for vote harvesting crimes.

Republican AG Ken Paxton has led an effort to probe alleged voter fraud.

Latino leaders and others have criticized an investigation as politically motivated.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxson on Wednesday said six individuals, including a county judge and a former elections administrator, were indicted and arrested for what Paxton described as fraudulent vote harvesting scheme.

In the state's Frio County, as part of a broad investigation, Latino civil rights leaders have criticized as politically motivated.

According to Paxton's announcement, five people have been charged with vote harvesting,

with one individual being charged with tampering or fabricating physical evidence.

Further details of the case were not provided in the announcement.

Several public officials are among those arrested, including a judge, Rochelle Camacho,

Frio County elections administrator Carlos Segura, two Pearsal City Council

members and a school board member. Segura and Pearsall City County member Romero Trevino declined to comment

on the indictments. And other defendants did not respond to requests for comment or could not be

reached. The Texas Attorney General has long echoed President Donald Trump's baseless claims of widespread election fraud and has engaged in aggressive prosecutions for alleged election fraud crimes that have upended lives were resulted in few cases that went to trial and ended in a conviction.

Civil rights groups and members of the community have raised concerns that Paxton's investigations tend to target black or Latino voters and volunteers, many of whom are Democrats, and that as a

result, there's been a chilling effect on volunteers and community groups that for decades have worked

to increase turnout in a state with one of the nation's lowest voter participation rates.

Interesting, that's the direction they would go, but there is another big story because fraud is not just about whether or not an individual is going to vote.

It's about illegal immigrants coming in.

And one of the big concerns we've had across this country is Chinese citizens, foreigners and adversaries buying up our land.

So, of course, we will be talking with the Texas rep in a moment.

Here's the next story for which I want to give you the context before getting at this interview.

Texas House passes bill banning Chinese citizens from buying state land.

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