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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the Biden administration over a rule that he says places a burden on American taxpayers which is a result of illegal immigration.

A U.S. judge issued a stay order on the Biden administration’s effort to terminate the immigration policy while court challenges by Texas and Missouri continue.

Earlier this year, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s (R) office requested the state Department of Public Safety to compile a list of transgender residents in the state, a DPS official confirmed to the Washington Post in a Wednesday report. A spokesperson for DPS told the Post that Paxton’s office made “a verbal request” calling for the total number of Texans who had changed the gender on their driver’s licenses or in other government records within the past two years.

The effort to obtain data came as Attorney General Ken Paxton, Gov. Greg Abbott and other Republican leaders have marshaled resources against transgender Texans.

Texas is filing a lawsuit against the Biden administration to ensure that the state is not compelled to discriminate against faith-based adoption and foster-care services.

The Supreme Court sounded divided over a clash between President Biden and the state of Texas involving immigration enforcement.

State-level law enforcement units created after the 2020 presidential election to investigate voter fraud are looking into scattered complaints more than two weeks after the midterms but have provided no indication of systemic problems.

In this year’s tightest contests, Democrats have focused on reproductive rights, while Republicans have emphasized public safety.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton secured $237 million in a agreement with CVS Pharmacy for its role in contributing to the nationwide opioid epidemic.

Elected prosecutors operating outside the rule of law threaten the country's safety as a constitutional republic, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says.

State's attorney general alleges the search giant is illegally capturing and commercializing individual biometric data

The complaint underscores the role of individual states in protecting users' information on the internet in the absence of a federal privacy law.

The Biden administrating is putting forth seven new Justice Department and judicial nominations covering three U.S. attorney’s offices in Texas and other senior posts.

A federal judge has ruled that the current version of a federal policy that prevents the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. as children can continue, at least temporarily.

Elon Musk would likely push for more free speech on Twitter should the Tesla CEO purchase Twitter, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, said.

Amal and George Clooney join “CBS Mornings” co-host Gayle King in the studio for an exclusive interview on their eighth wedding anniversary.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton fleeing a subpoena shows the Republican Party’s new approach to law and order: Consequences for thee, not for me.

"Top executive officials should not be called to testify absent extraordinary circumstances," the motion from Judge Robert Pitman said, CNN reported.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich joined "The Faulkner Focus" to discuss how they have tacked the border crisis in their states.

DALLAS — (AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ran out of his house and jumped into a truck driven by his wife, a state senator, to avoid being served a subpoena to testify Tuesday in an abortion access case, according to court documents. A process server wrote in an affidavit that he was attempting to deliver the federal court subpoena Monday at Paxton's home and ultimately had to leave the document on the ground. Herrera said he left the subpoena on the ground beside the truck but the couple drove off without taking it. The Texas state bar has also brought a lawsuit seeking to discipline Paxton for allegedly misleading the U.S. Supreme Court in his suit seeking to challenge Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 election. He faces Democratic challenger Rochelle Garza, a first-time candidate and former ACLU attorney, in the November election.

The Texas attorney general's effort to avoid a process server is only the latest example.

DALLAS — (AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ran out of his house and jumped into a truck driven by his wife, a state senator, to avoid being served a subpoena to testify Tuesday in an abortion access case, according to court documents. A process server wrote in an affidavit that he was attempting to deliver the federal court subpoena Monday at Paxton's home and ultimately had to leave the document on the ground. Herrera said he left the subpoena on the ground beside the truck but the couple drove off without taking it. The Texas state bar has also brought a lawsuit seeking to discipline Paxton for allegedly misleading the U.S. Supreme Court in his suit seeking to challenge Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 election. He faces Democratic challenger Rochelle Garza, a first-time candidate and former ACLU attorney, in the November election.

Court documents say Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ran out of his house and jumped into a truck driven by his wife, a state senator, to avoid being served a subpoena in an abortion access case.

Paxton was subpoenaed to testify in a civil lawsuit from Texas-based nonprofits that want to resume helping pregnant residents obtain out-of-state abortions.

A process server claimed Monday that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) ran to avoid subpoenas in an ongoing lawsuit concerning out-of-state abortion access.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton disputed a report that he fled his home to avoid being served a subpoena regarding an abortion rights lawsuit, claiming that he felt unsafe.

Ken Paxton of Texas and 10 other state attorneys general argued in an amicus brief that the Biden administration could not be trusted.

A Texas judge has thrown out a lawsuit that the state bar brought seeking to discipline the top deputy to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over the Republican's failed effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election based on bogus claims of fraud. Judge John Youngblood dismissed the case against First Assistant Attorney General Brent Webster with prejudice last week, ruling that his court lacks jurisdiction over the petition brought by State Bar of Texas under the “separation of powers doctrine." The ruling is a partial victory for Paxton as he seeks a third term as Texas' top lawyer against Democratic challenger Rochelle Garza.

The immediate appeal of the injunction by Tx. Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) allowed the state to continue its controversial child-abuse investigations.

Attorney General Ken Paxton R-TX., weighed in on the Democrats' response to Gov. Ron DeSantis sending immigrants to Martha's Vineyard on "Hannity."

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) and former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi (R) joined "Fox & Friends" to discuss how the Biden administration has abandoned securing the border.

Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is pushing back on calls by Uvalde families for new gun control measures in Texas in wake of the Robb Elementary School massacre.

Circuit Court of Appeals, which is hearing the state's challenge in the nuclear case. In a political twist, environmental groups that oppose the waste-storage plan also invoked the Supreme Court ruling. "It's disturbing that the NRC put its oar in on a policy decision that belongs to Congress,'' namely, where to store nuclear waste. “It's certainly a major question,'' Taylor added, referring to nuclear waste storage. “Tens of thousands of tons of nuclear waste” must be disposed of “and there's no authority in the Nuclear Waste Policy Act to license interim storage,'' he said.

The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on climate change could have implications for a range of other issues, including a case involving nuclear waste storage and a proposal requiring companies to disclose how climate risk affects their businesses.

A federal judge has struck down one of Texas’ few remaining firearm restrictions, finding a law that barred adults under the age of 21 from carrying a handgun was unconstitutional.

Three more Republican-led states banned almost all abortions this week.

"People are outraged about this, and you can feel it in the air," said Kris Mayes, a Democrat running for attorney general in Arizona.

Liz Cheney’s resounding election defeat marks the end of an era for the Republican Party.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton claimed the new guidance would "transform every emergency room in the country into a walk-in abortion clinic."

Texas attorney general Ken Paxton sued the Biden administration over federal guidance that requires hospitals provide abortions to save patients in life-threatening emergencies.

Three days before the Texas lawsuit, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra told hospitals and physicians they have to provide abortions in medical emergencies.

Brandy Bottone was recently driving down Central Expressway in Dallas when she was stopped by a sheriff at an HOV checkpoint to see whether drivers had at least one passenger in their vehicles.

More than halfway through a tumultuous primary season, voters have rendered verdicts in a number of contests, many of which featured candidates arguing they best represented a continuation of policies favored by former President Donald Trump.

Red states and blue states are further apart than ever politically.

Clinics were shutting down abortion services in the nation's second-largest state Saturday after the Texas Supreme Court blocked an order allowing the procedure to resume in some cases.

On Saturday, the American Civil Liberties Union said it doubted that any abortions were now being provided in the state.

On Saturday, the American Civil Liberties Union said it doubted that any abortions were now being provided in the state.

Clinics are shutting down abortion services in Texas after the Supreme Court in the nation's second-largest state blocked an order that briefly allowed the procedure to resume in some cases.

When asked whether the Texas legislature would pass a sodomy law, and if he would defend it and bring it to the Supreme Court, Attorney General Ken Paxton suggested he would be comfortable supporting a law outlawing intimate same-sex relationships.

A Texas woman pleaded guilty to voter fraud, including counts for illegal voting, unlawful possession of a mail ballot, and running a vote-harvesting operation.

Dozens of Republican candidates who sought Donald Trump’s endorsement have spent months parroting the former president's baseless claims of 2020 election fraud.

A Texas judge has temporarily blocked the state from investigating families of transgender children who have received gender confirming care.

A baby who has been missing since her parents were found dead in a wooded area in Houston in 1981 has been found, Texas authorities announced.

A baby who has been missing since her parents were found dead in a wooded area in Houston in 1981 has been found, Texas authorities announced.

An infant who was declared missing in 1981 after her parents, a Florida couple, were discovered dead in a wooded Texas area was found more than 40 years later by cold case investigators, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Thursday.

The mother of one of the teens said her son attempted suicide and was hospitalized the day Gov. Abbott issued his directive.

The lawsuit also asks a Texas judge to block the state from opening any similar investigations against any Texas members of LGBTQ advocacy group PFLAG Inc. The latest challenge, brought by Lambda Legal and the American Civil Liberties Union, seeks a new broad order against the investigations. A judge in March put that order on hold after a lawsuit brought on behalf of a 16-year-old girl whose family said it was under investigation. The Texas Supreme Court in May ruled that the lower court overstepped its authority by blocking all investigations going forward. Arkansas last year became the first state to pass a law prohibiting gender-confirming treatments for minors, and Tennessee approved a similar measure.

Twitter plans to offer Elon Musk access to its “firehose” of raw data on hundreds of millions of daily tweets in an effort to push forward the Tesla billionaire’s agreed-to $44 billion acquisition of the social media platform, according to multiple news reports.

Now, one state attorney general with an outsize personality and edge-skating stance nearly in the league of Elon Musk is striding into the maelstrom of Musk’s $44 billion now-tenuous bid for Twitter. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced his investigation of Twitter on Monday just hours after Musk, the billionaire Tesla and SpaceX CEO, accused Twitter of refusing to disclose the extent of its spam bot and fake accounts. The unexpected turn in the months-long drama of Musk and Twitter sent that company's shares down 1.5%, likely angering shareholders who had filed suit against Musk last month, accusing him of deflating the stock price. In launching his investigation, Paxton suggested that Twitter might have violated Texas' Deceptive Trade Practices Act. The Texas attorney general, who has long carved out a distinctive public persona, isn't likely to mind any criticism.

State officials across the nation have taken on Big Tech companies in the courts and state legislatures, and federal regulators have nipped at Twitter over alleged violations of users’ data privacy.

Ken Paxton, the attorney general of Texas, is investigating Twitter over its reported user numbers.

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The state bar is suing Paxton over his petition to the Supreme Court to block Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 election.

The State Bar of Texas sued Wednesday to punish state Attorney General Ken Paxton for his failed efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election based on bogus claims of fraud, raising a new legal danger for the Republican the day after he secured his party's nomination for a third term. The state bar asked a Dallas-area court to impose unspecified discipline on the state's top lawyer, alleging that Paxton's petitioning of the U.S. Supreme Court to block President Joe Biden’s victory was “dishonest.” The formal accusation of professional misconduct makes Paxton one of the highest-profile attorneys to face a potential threat to their law license for a role in former President Donald Trump’s effort to delegitimize his defeat.

Republican voters really, truly, aren’t Trump zombies, but the GOP does reflect the former president’s brand of anti-democratic radicalism.

The gunman who killed 19 elementary school children and two teachers in Texas added to the state's grim recent history of mass shootings.

In a runoff primary election with George P. Bush, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton pulled off a win. Paxton is embattled in legal issues but easily won over his Republican rival.

Former President Donald Trump’s crusade for vengeance suffered two devastating blows when Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger won their primaries despite rejecting Trump’s entreaties to reverse his 2020 election loss.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has won the Republican primary in a bid to keep his job.

Georgia takes center stage in Tuesday’s primary elections as Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger try to fight back challengers endorsed by Donald Trump.

The Texas Supreme Court is allowing the state to investigate parents of transgender youth for child abuse.

The bombshell leak of a draft opinion suggesting the Supreme Court is poised to overturn the landmark Roe v.

Some child welfare workers in Texas say they’re quitting over a new directive that allows abuse investigations into parents of transgender kids.

Ohio’s crowded Republican Senate race has been all about one man: Donald Trump.

A Texas judge is blocking the state from investigating as child abuse gender confirming care for transgender youth.

The parents of a transgender teenager in Texas say in a lawsuit that the state is investigating them after Republican Gov. Greg Abbott ordered officials to look into reports of gender-confirming care for kids as abuse.

Republican Gov. Greg Abbott will face Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke after voters in Texas opened what could be a lengthy, bruising primary season.

The 2022 midterm election season opens Tuesday in Texas.

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Political observers say Republican candidates are using transgender people as a classic “wedge issue” as 2022 campaigns heat up.

Texas Gov_ Greg Abbott has ordered the state’s child welfare agency to investigate reports of gender-confirming care for kids as “child abuse."

Early voting in the first primary of the 2022 midterm elections are underway in Texas.

Races for state attorneys general are emerging as important battlegrounds this year as Republicans seek to expand their reach in the office sometimes referred to as “the people's lawyer.”.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, in letters to seven governors, is reaffirming the need for members of their states' Army and Air National Guards to get the mandatory COVID-19 vaccine or lose their Guard status.

Newly unredacted documents from a state-led antitrust lawsuit against Google accuse the search giant of colluding with rival Facebook to manipulate online advertising sales.

U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert has joined the crowded field of Republicans mounting primary challenges against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

A lawsuit over new voting laws in Texas is bringing the state into court once again with the Biden administration.

The Biden administration is suing Texas over new voting rules that outlasted a summer of dramatic protests by Democrats.

Nineteen states are now suing to block President Joe Biden's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors.

A federal appeals court is temporarily allowing the nation’s toughest abortion law to resume in Texas.

Abortions have resumed in at least six Texas clinics after a federal judge halted the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S. Amy Hagstrom Miller is the president of Whole Woman's Health, which has four clinics in Texas.

Abortions in Texas can resume under a federal judge’s ruling, but for how long.

A U.S. Senate candidate in Missouri, Republican state Attorney General Eric Schmitt, is flexing the power of his office by filing a slew of lawsuits, including against Democratic cities and schools to stop mask mandates.

The often-heated debate over whether returning students should wear masks in the classroom has moved from school boards to courtrooms.

San Francisco has become the first major city in the nation to require proof of full vaccination against the coronavirus for people to dine inside restaurants, work out in gyms or attend indoor concerts.

A surge of COVID-19 cases is prompting federal courts to impose new restrictions and requirements for mask-wearing and vaccinations.

Florida has reported 21,683 new cases of COVID-19, the state’s highest one-day total since the start of the pandemic, according to federal health data released Saturday.

Lawyers for Texas’ embattled attorney general have asked the state bar association to drop its investigation into whether the Republican’s failed efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election amounted to professional misconduct.

The Texas bar association has opened an investigation into whether Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s failed efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election amounted to professional misconduct.

Texas GOP Chairman Allen West is stepping down after a short but combative run of using the job to antagonize top Republicans in America’s biggest red state.