Posted on · The state’s high court allowed the investigations to continue but said the Texas Department of Family Protective Services is not bound by Gov. Abbott and Attorney General Paxton’s orders.
Posted on · The request comes after Gov. Greg Abbott announced last month that Texas would divert about $500 million from state agencies to fund the controversial border mission.
Posted on · Since Monday’s leak of a draft order from the Supreme Court’s reported decision to overturn Roe v Wade, an Austin-based reproductive care and education agency reported more than 700 requests for emergency contraception kits.
Posted on · Texas is one of more than a dozen conservative-led states that have previously passed so-called trigger laws designed to end abortion access for nearly all residents if Roe v. Wade is overturned.
Posted on · The lawsuit is the 11th Ken Paxton has filed over Biden’s proposed immigration or border policies. But the White House’s plans have also raised concerns from legal and immigrant rights groups.
Posted on · The policy known as Title 42 is set to expire in late May but Paxton is asking for an immediate halt to the pending termination.
Posted on · A day after a federal judge ruled face coverings can’t be required on airplanes and other public transportation, some Texans cheered the decision. But others said they’re still on the fence as COVID lingers.
Posted on · The transport is part of Abbott’s plan to expand Operation Lone Star and came in response to the Biden Administration’s decision to end Title 42 – a pandemic-era rule that rapidly expels migrants from the U.S.
Posted on · The deaths of two inmates at the federal facility in East Texas led to a dayslong lockdown of the country’s prison system.
Posted on · Gov. Abbott said the state's actions are in response to the Biden administration's plans to end a policy used to promptly expel asylum seekers at the border during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Posted on · Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s marching orders come after he threatened to revoke tenure for some professors who teach about critical race theory and its history at public universities.
Posted on · The Trump-era policy has been used to expel asylum-seeking migrants since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. While some lawmakers hail its end, others have asked the Biden administration to hold off on ending the policy.
Posted on · The lawsuit marks the third time the Biden administration has targeted Texas over changes to political maps or voting laws.
Posted on · Attorneys for the Mexican American Legislative Caucus took their latest challenge to Texas’s new political maps to the state’s high court. They argue lawmakers violated the Texas Constitution when drawing state house districts in the Rio Grande Valley.
Posted on · In an order late Monday, the Third Court of Appeals reinstated a statewide injunction into the practice that was previously granted by a state district judge earlier this month.