According to court filings, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton fled his home on Monday when a process server attempted to serve him with a subpoena to testify in an abortion case. The subpoena was to testify against eight abortion funds fighting the state's...
Indicted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton embarrassed Texas once again after filing a brief against the Department of Justice requesting a neutral special master in a lawsuit against former President Donald Trump after 300 classified documents were found at his...
Voting rights advocates have seen few wins in Texas, especially since the Republican legislature passed the sweeping voter suppression bill known as Senate Bill 1. However, recently, there was one ruling that struck down at least a portion of SB 1, which impeded...
The corruption watchdog nonprofit American Oversight has filed a lawsuit against Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton to compel the release of emails and texts the group has sought over the past 15 months. The lawsuit is seeking communications from...
Civil rights and LGBTQ advocactes are celebrating a legal victory on Friday after the Travis County District Court granted a temporary restraining order blocking the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services from investigating families of transgender youth...
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...
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...
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...
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...