Tag: Texas
The Texas "voter fraud" scheme led to a lawsuit and settlement that required Republican officials to completely walk back their baseless allegations.
In a new Texas poll, Trump loses a close race with Biden -- and "barely inches up in similar matchups with all the other Democrats.”
Rep.Chip Roy (R-TX) said he blocked the bipartisan aid bill's passage by unanimous consent because it doesn't include funding for border security.
Donald Trump, Gov. Greg Abbott, and other Republicans promoted the false claim that 95,000 non-citizens were illegally registered to vote in Texas.
Last February, the Trump administration abruptly abandoned the crux of the Justice Department's opposition to Texas' voter ID law. Government lawyers also asked the judge to delay her decision on whether the law intentionally discriminated ...
From 2010 through 2015, there were 981 cases reported to police in Texas as potential hate crimes. ProPublica examined the records kept by the Texas Judicial Branch and confirmed just five hate crime convictions. In ...
After arguing for nearly six years that Texas’ voter ID law intentionally discriminated against minorities, the Department of Justice -- now overseen by Jeff Sessions -- has informed the other plaintiffs in the case it ...
U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks said state health officials "likely acted to disenroll qualified health care providers from Medicaid without cause." He said the preliminary injunction will preserve the court's ability to render a meaningful ...
There are valid reasons that should disqualify Perry from running a federal agency with 13,000 employees -- plus 93,000 contract workers -- and an annual budget of $30 million. Perry is, to put it kindly, ...
Eight months after the Supreme Court struck down abortion restrictions in Texas, state legislators appear to be doubling down in a renewed effort to make the procedure difficult, and ultimately impossible, to obtain. On Wednesday, ...
Texas Governor Greg Abbott made good on his promise to cut $1.5 million in grant money to Travis County after the county sheriff said she would limit her department's cooperation with federal immigration officers, county ...
The cost of the so-called "bathroom bill," which bars transgender people from using restrooms that match their gender identity, could run as high as $8.5 billion and result in a loss of 185,000 jobs in ...
When Texas’ 85th legislative session officially kicks off, anti-LGBTQ extremists in the state will be well into their campaigns to pass a slew of laws attacking LGBTQ equality. A number of anti-LGBTQ extremists with high-level ...
The decision sides with Texas, seven other states and three Christian-affiliated healthcare groups challenging a rule that, according to the judge, defines sex bias to include "discrimination on the basis of gender identity and termination ...
First Miller claimed his account was hacked. That was false. Then he said an aide had retweeted an obscene tweet by mistake. But it wasn't a retweet. He has boasted on Twitter, "My thoughts are ...
