Tag Archives: Texas

By Eleanor Klibanoff, The Texas Tribune Feb. 24, 2022 The Texas Supreme Court will hear arguments Thursday in a narrow challenge to the state’s new abortion law, which has blocked access to the procedure after about six weeks of pregnancy for nearly six months. This hearing before the state high …

Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott ordered state agencies Tuesday to investigate reports of gender-affirming care on minors, following an official opinion from state Attorney General Ken Paxton that called the treatment a form of “child abuse” under Texas law. In a letter to the Department of Family and Protective Services …

By Reese Oxner and Joshua Fechter, The Texas Tribune Feb. 17, 2022 Nearly two years after demonstrators and police clashed in Austin during nationwide protests sparked by the murder of George Floyd, a Travis County grand jury on Thursday indicted 19 officers accused of excessive force, according to the police …

By Sneha Dey, The Texas Tribune Feb. 16, 2022 Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and U.S. Rep. Beth Van Duyne, R-Irving, are suing the Biden administration to end mask mandates on planes. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday, argues that the mandate imposes a “restriction on travelers’ liberty interests.” Van Duyne’s district …

By Alexa Ura and Mandi Cai, The Texas Tribune Jan. 17, 2022 Texans will head back to the polls — from Feb. 14-25 for early voting and on election day, March 1 — for the 2022 primary election. Here’s an overview of what Texans need to know about casting a …

By Alexa Ura, The Texas Tribune Feb. 10, 2022 Stricter voting rules enacted by Republican lawmakers last year continue to foil Texans trying to vote by mail in the upcoming primary, with hundreds of completed ballots being initially rejected for not meeting the state’s new identification requirements. The bulk of …

By Uriel J. García, The Texas Tribune Jan. 28, 2022 Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and seven other attorneys general filed a lawsuit Friday asking a federal judge to halt a Biden administration immigration program that allows some Central American children to legally migrate to the United States and reunite …

By James Pollard, The Texas Tribune Jan. 24, 2022 Igalious “Ike” Mills grew up working his family’s farm in the Piney Woods town of Nacogdoches. His siblings still keep it running, relying on a lot of the same equipment used by their father and grandfather. Mills, who is Black, spends …

Shefali Luthra Originally published by The 19th The Supreme Court declined a request to hasten the appeals process for a lawsuit that could block Texas’ six-week abortion ban. The decision means that the Texas abortion ban, known as Senate Bill 8, will stay in effect indefinitely. The request came from …

By Lomi Kriel, The Texas Tribune and ProPublica Jan. 17, 2022 The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday sent the legal challenge to Texas’ restrictive abortion law to the state’s Supreme Court, a move that is expected to significantly delay the case and that abortion opponents had hoped …

By James Barragán, The Texas Tribune Jan. 13, 2022 The Travis County district attorney on Thursday found that Attorney General Ken Paxton violated the state’s open records law by not turning over his communications from last January when he visited Washington, D.C., for a pro-Trump rally that preceded the Jan. …

Originally published by The 19th The U.S. Supreme Court will allow a legal challenge to Texas’ six-week abortion law to continue — potentially opening the door for lower courts to once again halt enforcement of the law, but also leaving open an avenue for future abortion restrictions and limiting the …

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Monday that it has filed a lawsuit under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act against the State of Texas and the Texas Secretary of State, challenging the State’s redistricting plans for the Texas congressional delegation and the Texas House of Representatives. …

Longtime Texas Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson has announced her intentions to retire after her term ends next year. The 85-year-old Dallas Democrat, who represents Texas’ 30th congressional district, told a crowd of supporters over the weekend that she will be endorsing a candidate in the race to fill her seat. …

Former U.S. Congressman, 2018 U.S. Senate nominee and 2020 presidential contender, Beto O’Rourke, has officially announced he is running for governor of Texas. O’Rourke announced his campaign in a video posted to YouTube on Monday. In the video, O’Rourke cites the power grid failure during February’s winter storm as one of …