Posted on · Senators have been publicly silent, citing their role as jurors with a weighty decision: Whether to remove one of the state’s top Republicans from office.
Posted on · The May 24 runoff features several high-profile contests for statewide offices, including Republican and Democratic runoffs for attorney general and the state’s land commissioner.
Posted on · Here's where to vote and who's on the ballot.
Posted on · Land Commissioner George P. Bush and former Texas Supreme Court Justice Eva Guzman repeatedly criticized each other. U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert focused on the incumbent, who didn’t participate.
Posted on · Gohmert is at least the fourth GOP primary opponent that Paxton will face. At least three Democrats are also running for the job.
Posted on · The Republican made her bid official Monday, touting her experience and integrity. She'll face incumbent Ken Paxton and Land Commissioner George P. Bush in the primary.
Posted on · Bush made his challenge official Wednesday evening during an event at a downtown Austin bar. Former President Donald Trump said last week that he would issue an endorsement in the race "in the not-so-distant future."
Posted on · After years in the headlines for suing local law enforcement agencies for violating the civil rights of Black people, Lee Merritt decided this week to try a new approach to justice: Become the state’s top lawyer.
Posted on · Is Texas Gov. Greg Abbott running away from more than dozen years of fighting for the undocumented?
Posted on · The firings and any other “adverse employment action” resulted from the top aides’ “own misconduct, lack of competence, and/or disloyalty to the Office,” attorneys for the state agency wrote in a new filing Monday.
Posted on · The Texas attorney general is suing four states over the 2020 election, but it’s unlikely the Supreme Court will take on the case.
Posted on · The Texas secretary of state had threatened the legal action last week, but Harris County Clerk Chris Hollins indicated he would not drop his effort to send out absentee ballot applications to more than 2 million registered voters.
Posted on · The Houston Matters experts discuss the latest political stories.
Posted on · Jeff Sessions has long complained that asylum seekers are 'gaming' the U.S. system
Posted on · Whether Christi Craddick violated the law last year in pushing the Texas Railroad Commission's executive director out of her post is "not a question we can resolve," Attorney General Ken Paxton wrote in an opinion released Thursday