Texas elects 3 Paxton-backed judges to Criminal Appeals Court. What it means for judiciary
Texas' highest court for criminal matters will have three new Republican members, all backed by AG Ken Paxton. Two of them ...
Texas Attorney General Seeks Order to Preserve Jack Smith’s Trump Records
Ken Paxton asked a judge to order Mr. Smith, the special counsel who brought two criminal cases against Donald J. Trump, to ...
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Texas elects 3 Paxton-backed judges to Criminal Appeals Court. What it means for judiciary
Slaughter "stripped the authority to prosecute Election Fraud from Texas' Great Attorney General Ken Paxton,” Trump wrote in a Feb. 26 post on social media network Truth Social. “As a Judge ...
Two Democrats, two Republicans running for Texas House speaker
Two Democrats and one Republican have announced they are running for speaker of the Texas House, vying to unseat the current ...
Texas AG Ken Paxton files 100th lawsuit against Biden administration
Texas has sued the Biden administration 100 times, Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Monday. Paxton hit the milestone ...
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John Cornyn loses longtime bid to be next Senate majority leader to John Thune
Cornyn has for years signaled he wanted to succeed his close ally GOP leader Mitch McConnell. He lost in a vote decided by ...
Texas seeks court order preserving Jack Smith's records of Trump investigation, citing president-elect 'promising accountability' for the special counsel
Texas AG Ken Paxton is seeking a court order prohibiting special counsel Jack Smith from destroying any records concerning ...
The Texas Tribune3d
John Cornyn spent years preparing to run for Senate majority leader. Will it be enough?
John Cornyn is running to succeed Mitch McConnell after years waiting in his shadow. But the far-right, in Texas and ...
Transgender-rights advocates say the election of Trump and his allies marks a major setback
Election victories for Donald Trump and other candidates whose campaigns demeaned transgender people reinforced a widespread ...
Texas Standard3d
Texas Republicans still hold all 9 seats on the state Supreme Court. Now what?
As it stands, Republicans will continue to hold all of the court’s nine seats until at least 2026, when three other justices ...