Briscoe Cain (born December 9, 1984)[1] is an American attorney and Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 128.

Briscoe grew up in Deer Park, Texas, a suburb of Houston located in Harris County.

[3] In December 2015, Cain successfully defended the religious rights of Beaumont police officers when the city banned them from having Bible study during lunch breaks.

[4] In 2016, Cain obtained via a FOIA request invoices sent by a California bioscience company to four Texas medical schools.

From these invoices he claimed the Texas schools were using tax dollars to purchase aborted fetal tissue, since Planned Parenthood was known to give fetuses to the California company.

In a statement, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso said that it strictly followed federal and state guidelines.

[6] In the 2016 Republican runoff election, Cain defeated seven-term incumbent Wayne Smith by 23 votes.

[10] However, just before the December 11, 2017, deadline to file for a place on the primary ballot, Sain announced that he was no longer going to challenge Cain.

[31] 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.

[47] Briscoe, a non-denominational Christian, cited his faith as his biggest source of inspiration in life as part of a 2017 interview with UHD News.

"[49] He has pledged as part of his 2020 campaign platform to protect the "guarantee of religious liberty", as well as "ensure that traditional Christian values are restored and strengthened.

[54][55] After the legislation had been implemented, mail-in ballots were rejected at record numbers for not filling out forms correctly as specified by the new regulations.

[56] Cain supports a ban on Democrats being given committee chairmanships as long as the Republicans hold the majority of seats in the Texas House.

[57] On October 10, 2017, protesters at Texas Southern University (TSU) prevented Cain from speaking at a Federalist Society event on campus.

"[58] James Douglas, the interim dean of TSU's Thurgood Marshall School of Law, said the event had been cleared with him and that he was investigating the incident.

[48] On April 25, 2019, during a Texas House session to recognize Autism Awareness Month, he stated that he has been diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, and struggles maintaining eye contact as a result.