The Texas Supreme Court on Friday partially blocked the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services from being forced to follow Gov. Greg Abbott's order to investigate the parents of trans children for abuse. In February, the governor penned a letter to DFPS...
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back to archiveTexas Court denies Paxton’s request to prosecute election violation cases
Late Wednesday evening, a Republican appointed Texas court dismissed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s request to prosecute election law violation cases. In an 8-1 decision, the Texas Criminal Court of Appeals answered the case's key question of whether the...
DOJ files second lawsuit against Texas for violating Voting Rights Act
U.S. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced Monday the Department of Justice was suing Texas for violating Section 2 Of The Voting Rights Act. Section 2 requires that all election-related practices and procedures, including the drawing of district lines, are...
DOJ sues Texas for violating Voting Rights Act
The Biden administration’s Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against Texas arguing that the state violated the Voting Rights Act of 1965 when it passed Senate Bill 1, a sweeping piece of legislation that makes it more difficult to access the ballot box. The...
Could these two Senate bills weaken Democratic voters in Texas?
Texas chief justices, attorneys and legislators spoke out against Senate Bill 11 and SB 1529 last week in a Texas Senate Committee on Jurisprudence hearing for its lack of minority inclusion. According to Senate documents, these two bills will change the...
Republican bail reform bill poses threat to poor Texans, activists
Members of the Texas Senate Committee on Jurisprudence held their first hearing this week over Senate Bill 21, a controversial bail reform bill backed by Republicans. The purpose of the bill according to its author Sen. Joan Huffman (R-Houston) is to prevent repeat...
New committee seeks to create a pipeline of Democratic U.S. Attorneys and judges
The incoming Biden administration has a list of to-do-items nearly a mile long, and one group in Texas has something to add: prioritizing nominating qualified candidates for U.S. Attorneys and federal judgeships. The Texas Democratic Lawyers Association (TDLA) is...