1. Briscoe Cain was born on December 9,1984 and is an American attorney and Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 128.
26 Facts About Briscoe Cain
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Briscoe Cain earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Houston-Downtown and a JD from South Texas College of Law.
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In December 2015, Briscoe Cain successfully defended the religious rights of Beaumont police officers when the city banned them from having Bible study during lunch breaks.
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In 2016, Briscoe Cain obtained via a FOIA request invoices sent by a California bioscience company to four Texas medical schools.
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Briscoe Cain ran unopposed in the Republican primary election held on March 6,2018.
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On March 3,2020, Briscoe Cain defeated Hoskins in the Republican primary election, when Briscoe Cain received 11,752 votes to Hoskins' 3,064 votes.
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Briscoe Cain defeated Democrat Mary Williams in the 2020 general election for District 128 representative.
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Briscoe Cain ran unopposed in the Republican primary election held on March 1,2022.
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Since being elected in 2016, Briscoe Cain has consistently ranked as one of the most conservative members of the Texas House.
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The annual analysis of Texas legislators' voting records by Rice University's James A Baker III Institute for Public Policy found Cain to be the most conservative member of the Texas House in 2017, and 2019, and the second-most conservative in 2023.
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Briscoe Cain was named Recipient of Operation Rescue's 2021 Pro-Life Person of the Year Malachi Award for his work on the Texas Heartbeat Act.
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Briscoe Cain is ardently anti-abortion and authored an early version of Texas's six-week abortion ban, known as the Texas Heartbeat Act.
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On March 18,2022, Briscoe Cain sent cease-and-desist letters to every abortion fund in Texas, demanding that they immediately stop paying for abortions performed in Texas or face criminal prosecution.
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Briscoe Cain served as an attorney for Shelley Luther, the Dallas Salon owner who was jailed for opening her hair salon in violation of an order related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Briscoe Cain has an "F" rating from the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws for his voting history regarding cannabis-related causes.
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Briscoe Cain assisted President Trump's attempts to overturn the election results of 2020 United States presidential election following his re-election loss by using baseless claims of voter fraud.
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Briscoe Cain defended the proposed restrictions as necessary to maintain the "purity of the ballot box".
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On October 10,2017, protesters at Texas Southern University prevented Briscoe Cain from speaking at a Federalist Society event on campus.
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Briscoe Cain was invited by the president of TSU's Federalist Society student chapter to speak to students at the traditionally black university.
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Briscoe Cain planned to talk about the Texas Legislature's most recent special session.
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Protesters claimed that Briscoe Cain "has ties to the Alt-Right and is anti-LGBT" and drowned out Briscoe Cain's attempts to speak.
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On March 14,2018, Briscoe Cain tweeted about the death of prominent physicist Stephen Hawking.
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On June 22,2018, Briscoe Cain and three other men snuck into the Texas Democratic Party's state convention being held at the Fort Worth Convention Center in Fort Worth, Texas, where Briscoe Cain and three other men handed out 100 yard signs which read, "This home is a gun-free safe space" to convention attendees.
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In September 2019, Briscoe Cain threatened Beto O'Rourke after O'Rourke called for gun control measures.
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Briscoe Cain is married with five children, all boys and all named for Texas counties.
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Briscoe Cain serves with the rank of captain in the Texas State Guard.