Tag Archives: Texas

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, …

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 …

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. …

 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

 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 …

Zach Despart and James Barragán, The Texas Tribune Defying a last-minute appeal by former President Donald Trump, the Texas House voted overwhelmingly Saturday to impeach Attorney General Ken Paxton, temporarily removing him from office over allegations of misconduct that included bribery and abuse of office. The vote to adopt the …

Patrick Svitek, The Texas Tribune For nearly a decade, Texas Republicans largely looked the other way as Attorney General Ken Paxton’s legal problems piled up. That abruptly changed this week. In revealing it had been secretly investigating Paxton since March — and then recommending his impeachment on Thursday — a …

James Barragán, Robert Downen and Zach Despart, The Texas Tribune In an unprecedented move, a Texas House committee voted Thursday to recommend that Attorney General Ken Paxton be impeached and removed from office, citing a yearslong pattern of alleged misconduct and lawbreaking that investigators detailed one day earlier. During a …

Alejandro Serrano, The Texas Tribune A bill that would ban race-based hair discrimination in Texas workplaces, schools and housing policies is headed to the governor after the Senate approved the bill Friday. Texas would become the latest state to enact the law in a movement that was inspired by the …

James Barragán, The Texas Tribune   Rep. Bryan Slaton resigned from the Texas House on Monday after an investigation determined that he had an inappropriate sexual relationship with a 19-year-old woman on his staff, providing her with enough alcohol before their encounter that she felt dizzy and had double vision. …

Sneha Dey and Joshua Fechter, The Texas Tribune   After a mass shooting on Saturday at an Allen outlet mall ended with eight people dead, Texas Republicans are doubling down on their resistance to gun control legislation. A gunman used an AR-15-style weapon to open fire on shoppers on Saturday …