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In this edition: Lessons from all of May's primaries, redistricting madness drags into Memorial Day weekend, and the director of Justice Democrats lays out their new strategy to replace centrists.

The settlement is part of a $19.2 million lawsuit between the company and 40 state attorney generals for alleged false advertising.

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

Paxton also faces a trial over long-delayed state fraud charges and a separate FBI...

Paxton had been under investigation for the complaint since 2021 and had called attempts to investigate him a ploy by “leftists” in the state bar association.

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.

Abbott was publicly criticized by his Democratic opponent for governor. Abbot also said he wasn’t sure if he would attend the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting later this week.

First-time candidate Rochelle Garza cruised to the attorney general nomination, while Mike Collier and Jay Kleberg eked out narrow runoff victories.

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.

Incumbent AG Ken Paxton prevailed over Land Commissioner George P. Bush despite Paxton facing a 2015 state securities fraud indictment and an ongoing FBI corruption investigation.

As President Joe Biden vowed to enact stricter gun laws following the Uvalde shooting, top Texas Republicans worked to create distance between the shooting and potential gun restrictions.

Republican Dawn Buckingham and Democrat Jay Kleberg won their primary runoffs. The winner of November’s general election will replace George P. Bush as head of the Texas General Land Office.

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.

In the Republican runoff for attorney general, incumbent Ken Paxton—not to mention Donald Trump—got his wish.

Bush’s defeat in the race for attorney general could mark the end of a four-generation political dynasty, and the end of an era of Texas politics that began when the first George Bush moved to Odessa in 1948.

Bush, who has served for seven years as the state’s land commissioner, campaigned on restoring integrity to the attorney general’s office and hit Paxton for his legal and ethical troubles.

State Rep. Bee Nguyen is advancing to a runoff in the Democratic primary for Georgia secretary of state.

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.

Voters in Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Texas and Minnesota are heading to the polls Tuesday.

Voters in Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Texas and Minnesota are heading to the polls Tuesday.

Tuesday’s elections will solidify the major parties’ statewide tickets and have national political implications.

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that he has filed a motion for a preliminary injunction Monday to stop the implementation of the Department of Homeland Security’s new rule he says is unlawfully altering asylum and parole procedures at the border.

In Alabama, former President Trump pulled his endorsement of Rep. Mo Brooks in the Senate race.

It's been nearly seven years since Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was indicted on felony securities fraud charges.

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.

Not many people charged with felony crimes go seven years without ever standing trial. One of them is Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. All the while, other clouds have gathered over Paxton: the FBI is investigating him over separate accusations of corruption, and the State Bar of Texas is weighing possible reprimands over his attempts to baselessly overturn the 2020 election.

U_S_ Sen_ John Cornyn has blasted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s legal woes as an “embarrassment.”.

Paxton, who faces a runoff election Tuesday, has been under state felony indictment since...

Cornyn is the most prominent Texas Republican to criticize the attorney general’s rocky record ahead of the runoff election against George P. Bush.

Republican U.S. Sen. John Cornyn of Texas on Thursday blasted one of his party's top leaders back home, calling the mounting pile of accusations and legal woes Attorney General Ken Paxton faces an “embarrassment" just days before a primary runoff election. Paxton, who is within reach of winning the GOP nomination to seek a third term Tuesday, has been under state felony indictment since 2015 on securities fraud charges and is separately being investigated by the FBI after his top deputies accused him of corruption. “This is the chief law enforcement officer of the state of Texas and it’s a source of embarrassment to me that that has been unresolved,” Cornyn told reporters.

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The filing escalates a battle between Paxton and industry groups representing some of the country’s most powerful social media firms, which have turned to the Supreme Court after a surprise ruling at the 5th Circuit court last week allowed the law to take effect.

Paxton’s backers say they’re looking past the FBI investigation into Paxton and his felony indictment because he’s a a strong conservative advocate fighting the Biden administration.

Since October, Border Patrol has taken 1.5 million "enforcement actions" against people crossing from Mexico without lawful authorization.

In the Texas AG's race, Ken Paxton is trying to dodge criticism of his legal troubles while George P. Bush faces a backlash against the Bush dynasty.

The court did not rule on the merits of the investigations, only that lower courts in Texas overstepped by trying to block all cases

Gov. Greg Abbott had ordered state authorities to investigate parents who authorize gender-affirming care for transgender children for abuse.

Co-hosts Brandon Rottinghaus and Jeronimo Cortina delve into the latest news in national and local politics.

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.

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

The high court also raised questions about why the state opened these investigations in the first place, noting that the child welfare agency is not bound by directives from the governor.

The clinic had stopped accepting new patients after increased political pressure.

George P. Bush is running for attorney general as a Trump-supporting, hard-right social conservative. But voters associate his family name with the party’s moderate wing. That could hurt him in the Republican primary runoff.

The Texas Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in a case between Harris County Election Administrator Isabel Longoria and Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Friday that the state bar association plans to sue him over his failed efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election based on bogus claims of fraud, raising yet another legal danger as the embattled Republican is locked in a primary runoff. Since last summer, the State Bar of Texas has been investigating complaints over Paxton's petitioning of the U.S. Supreme Court to block President Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump. The group has not publicly filed a suit against Paxton, but it asked an Austin-area court Friday to impose unspecified discipline on a member of his staff for alleged professional misconduct in the election suit.

A few hours after saying he was being sued by the bar, Paxton’s office announced an investigation into the Texas Bar Foundation for “facilitating mass influx of illegal aliens.”

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

George P. Bush said Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's lawsuit challenging the Biden administration's plan to end Title 42 is moot.

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.

The plan would overhaul the process for migrants seeking asylum, aiming to reduce the average wait time for a decision from five years to six months.

The two Republican state officials filed friend of the court briefs asking that the high court take up the case because it is relevant to statewide governance and to the powers of an executive office under the Texas Constitution.

The highest paid Texas state employee makes over $600,000, while most of the top 15...

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.

Texas has led the legal fight against the Biden administration’s immigration policies,...

Texas has led the legal fight against the Biden administration’s immigration policies, filing numerous lawsuits that have led to judges overturning or altering those policies.

From Trump's fraud claims to the obsession with 'grooming,' this November is poised to send a lot of wrong messages.

The poll found Gov. Greg Abbott leading Democratic challenger Beto O'Rourke 50% to 42%.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued San Antonio officials over how police handled a 2017 smuggling incident, and the city agreed to pay $300,000 to settle the lawsuits.

Two-fifths of Texas Republicans say they would never vote for a Bush. Two-fifths of Texas Republicans say they would never vote for a Bush.

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

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Paxton equated the week of LGBTQ-inclusive activities with sex education in a letter to the district. Austin ISD says it’s about acceptance.

The Austin school district holds events to celebrate LGBTQIA+ students every year. Attorney General Ken Paxton says "when it comes to sex education, parents—not school districts—are in charge."

Nobody wants storms or fires. But for Texas politicians, responding to disasters can be a welcome change of subject from political fights in an election year.

Paxton’s claims that the companies engaged in deceptive marketing practices are part of his ongoing effort to limit access to gender-affirming health care for transgender teens.

As Austin schools held Pride Week, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said the district was breaking state law.

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.

The temporary injunction was issued as part of a lawsuit brought on behalf of parents being investigated by child welfare workers for letting their transgender teenager access gender-affirming health care.

Texas’s attorney general is seen as the most beatable statewide Republican, but Rochelle Garza and Joe Jaworski are struggling to motivate the Democratic base.

An appeal of a judge’s order that temporary halted state investigations of transgender care should be tossed out immediately because the state hasn’t followed proper procedure, an expert in administrative law told a state appeals court.

Attorneys fighting against a directive to investigate gender-affirming medical care as child abuse have asked a state appeals court to stop the practice as the case winds through the judicial process.

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

Here's what you need to know if you plan to vote in the Democratic or Republican runoff on May 24.

Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office has sued the Biden administration 20 times in Texas federal courts over everything from mask mandates to immigration policies. Trump-appointed judges have ruled in seven of them, all in favor of Texas.

Paxton tweeted Friday that investigations into parents of transgender children would continue as a result of his appeal. But the state’s child welfare agency won’t confirm the status of the investigations.

Jeff Younger sees himself as the “tip of the spear” in an effort that led the state to investigate parents of transgender children for child abuse.

The judge halted the state from enforcing Gov. Greg Abbott's directive to launch "child abuse" investigations against parents getting gender-affirming care for their transgender children.

A Texas judge has temporarily blocked the state from investigating parents who get gender-affirming health care for their kids.

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

Meachum issued a temporary injunction preventing the state from enforcing Republican Gov....

District Judge Amy Clark Meachum said the governor’s directive for the state child welfare agency to investigate parents who provide gender-affirming care to their children was “beyond the scope of his authority and unconstitutional.” The statewide injunction will remain in effect until the case is heard in July.

Lucky for them, Texas officials probably can’t be prosecuted for bullying under the state’s education laws. The gist of those laws, however, is crystal clear, and so is the effect of their actions and rhetoric about gender-affirming health care.

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

Operation Lone Star, the controversial border security initiative implemented by Gov. Greg Abbott last year in response to a historic increase in migrant crossings at the Texas-Mexico border, is expanding into counties far from the banks of the Rio Grande.

Operation Lone Star, the controversial border security initiative implemented by Gov. Greg Abbott last year in response to a historic increase in migrant crossings at the Texas-Mexico border, is expanding into counties far from the banks of the Rio Grande.

Operation Lone Star, the controversial border security initiative implemented by Gov. Greg Abbott last year in response to a historic increase in migrant crossings at the Texas-Mexico border, is expanding into counties far from the banks of the Rio Grande.

The issue is no longer contained to just the party’s fringes — and it is unlikely to go away any time soon as the national fervor grows, Gov. Greg Abbott’s directive faces legal challenges and it factors prominently into a slew of GOP primary runoffs.

The appeals court’s decision allows a lower court to hold a hearing on whether Gov. Greg Abbott’s directive to investigate certain gender-affirming care as child abuse can stand.

Paxton is accused of professional misconduct for suing to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.

Amber Briggle had hoped inviting Paxton to dinner might soften his views about transgender children. Now, the family is under investigation after he issued an opinion equating gender-affirming medical care with child abuse.

Texas Children’s Hospital has paused hormone-related prescription therapies for gender-affirming services, according to a statement.

Citing potential criminal penalties, Texas Children’s Hospital will no longer provide hormone therapy to transgender patients.

In the Texas House, the biggest intraparty attack on Republican leadership came from the Defend Texas Liberty PAC, led by former state Rep. Jonathan Stickland, R-Bedford. Backed by hard-right donors like Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks, West Texas oil tycoons, the group spent at least $5.2 million from January onward.

Ever since Gov. Greg Abbott directed the state’s child welfare agency to investigate parents who provide gender-affirming care to their children, LGBTQ-affirming family lawyers statewide have been deluged with calls.

Ken Paxton and George P. Bush are in a May runoff for attorney general — the top race on that GOP ballot. But a name that’s not on the ballot might be the biggest name in that race.

Former Galveston Mayor Joe Jaworski and civil rights lawyer Lee Merritt are in a heated battle for second place and a spot in a runoff in May.

Bush is the underdog in the race. He had fewer votes than Paxton in the primary, and Paxton carries the coveted endorsement from former President Donald Trump. But the incumbent is still battling his felony indictment and a newer FBI investigation.