Joshua Fechter and Brian Lopez, The Texas Tribune Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson, a longtime Democrat, is now a Republican — turning Dallas into the largest city in the country with a GOP mayor. “Today I am changing my party affiliation,” Johnson wrote in an op-ed published Friday in The Wall …
Read More »Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Acquitted On All 16 Articles Of Impeachment
Zach Despart, The Texas Tribune The Texas Senate on Saturday acquitted Attorney General Ken Paxton of 16 articles of impeachment alleging corruption and bribery, his most artful escape in a career spent courting controversy and skirting consequences of scandal. No article received more than 14 of the required 21 votes …
Read More »Judge Orders Texas to Remove Buoy ‘Death Traps’ From Rio Grande
Migrant rights groups and Texas Democrats on Wednesday welcomed a federal judge’s order that the state remove from the Rio Grande about 1,000 feet of orange buoys fastened together with metal cables and anchored with concrete blocks. The federal Department of Justice sued Texas and Republican Gov. Greg Abbott over …
Read More »Here Are The 16 Articles Of Impeachment Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Is Facing
Chuck Lindell and James Barragán | The Texas Tribune, Florida Phoenix The Texas House adopted 20 articles of impeachment against state Attorney General Ken Paxton in late May on a 121-23 vote, with 60 Republicans in favor as 23 opposed. Paxton was immediately suspended from office, without pay, upon approval of House Resolution …
Read More »Critics Say Texas GOP’s New Exception to Abortion Ban Is Meant to ‘Deceive Voters’
Julia Conley, Common Dreams Rights advocates said Monday that a new law set to go into effect this week in Texas may appear on its face to be aimed at ensuring that pregnant people experiencing medical emergencies can access abortion care—but warned that it could not only do little to …
Read More »As a Tropical Storm Bore Down on Southern California, Texas Sent Migrants on a Bus to Los Angeles
Uriel J. García, The Texas Tribune Texas sent three dozen migrants to Los Angeles as the city was struck by Hilary, the first tropical storm to hit Southern California in 84 years, which caused record rainfall and flooding in parts of the region. According to a coalition of immigrants rights …
Read More »Ken Paxton’s Team Said There Was No Evidence To Support Impeachment. The Texas House Published Nearly 4,000 Pages.
Zach Despart, Patrick Svitek, Jolie McCullough, Kate McGee and Alejandro Serrano, The Texas Tribune Texas House impeachment managers have submitted nearly 4,000 pages of exhibits providing new and exhaustive details of their allegations of abuse of office by suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton ahead of his impeachment trial. The Senate, …
Read More »Child Dies While En Route To Chicago As Part Of Gov. Greg Abbott’s Migrant Busing Program
William Melhado, The Texas Tribune A child traveling to Chicago as part of Texas’ migrant busing program died, according to a Friday afternoon statement from the Texas Division of Emergency Management. The Chicago Tribune reported that the 3-year-old child died on Thursday when the bus was entering Chicago. The Illinois …
Read More »Lawsuit Over Texas Abortion Ban Could Be A Model In Other States
David Montgomery, Stateline A lawsuit in Texas asserting that the state’s abortion ban imperils women by dissuading doctors from ending dangerous pregnancies could provide a template for similar challenges across the country. Texas is one of 14 states that banned abortion after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. …
Read More »Political Dominoes Could Fall In Houston As 2 Longtime Democrats Campaign For Mayor
Patrick Svitek, The Texas Tribune The last time there was an open seat in Texas Senate District 15, it was 1982. The last time there was an open seat in Texas’ 18th Congressional District, it was 1989. Now, the heavily Democratic districts in Houston could be vacant again. It all …
Read More »U.S. Sues Texas After Gov. Greg Abbott Declines To Remove Floating Border Barrier
Noah Alcala Bach, The Texas Tribune The U.S. Justice Department announced Monday it is suing Texas and Gov. Greg Abbott after the state declined to remove the floating barrier deployed earlier this month on the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass. The lawsuit, filed in an Austin federal court, alleges the …
Read More »Texas Investigating Claim That DPS Troopers Were Told To Push Migrants Back Into The Rio Grande And Deny Them Water
Uriel J. García, The Texas Tribune A state trooper’s claims that superiors ordered officers at the border in Eagle Pass to push migrants back into the Rio Grande and deny them water has sparked a state investigation, the Texas Department of Public Safety said Tuesday. The trooper also reported that …
Read More »Supreme Court Rejects Texas Effort To Force Biden Administration To Change Deportation Policy
Uriel J. García, The Texas Tribune The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday ruled that Texas and Louisiana lacked legal standing to challenge the Biden administration’s priorities on who should be deported. In a 8-1 decision, the court found that even though the states lacked legal standing to sue in this …
Read More »Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Vetoes Bill That Would Give People With Disabilities New Option To Vote By Mail
Natalia Contreras, Votebeat and The Texas Tribune Gov. Greg Abbott on Saturday vetoed a bipartisan bill that would have expanded vote-by-mail access for people with disabilities — specifically people who are blind or paralyzed and need assistance marking their ballot. Advocates say Abbott’s veto of House Bill 3159 is a …
Read More »Here Are The Top Allegations That Led To Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Impeachment
James Barragán, The Texas Tribune On a late-September Wednesday in 2020, several of Attorney General Ken Paxton’s highest-ranking deputies walked into the FBI’s Austin office to make an explosive accusation: Their boss, one of the state’s most influential Republicans, appeared to be dirty. Paxton, they said, had personally directed his …
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