The U.S. Department of Justice argued in a legal filing Thursday that courts should drop any further action over the old version of Texas’ voter ID law. That story tops the Texas Political Roundup.
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Health care
Texans in Congress head home as Trump muddles health care negotiations
Republican members of the Texas congressional delegation began returning home for a Fourth of July recess Friday amid troubled negotiations on a health care overhaul measure that drew the attention of President Trump.
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Criminal Justice
Trump slow to fill judicial seats in Texas (video)
All four U.S. attorney seats, 11 district judgeships and two slots on the historically conservative U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals sit open.
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Trump taps Kay Bailey Hutchison to serve as NATO ambassador
President Trump has nominated former U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison to be the nation’s new NATO ambassador.
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Demographics
Texas leads 10 states in urging Trump to end Obama-era immigration program
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and officials from nine other states on Thursday urged the Trump administration to end a program that’s allowed hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants to work in the country without fear of being deported.
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Sid Miller doesn’t rule out joining Trump’s Agriculture Department
President Donald Trump has yet to nominate candidates for a dozen positions at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller says his name has been floated for some of the vacancies.
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Criminal Justice
Trump has left 17 legal vacancies in Texas
The Trump administration has begun to appoint U.S. attorneys and federal judges. But so far those efforts have not reached Texas.
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Criminal Justice
Attorneys spar over Texas immigration law in federal court
Monday was the first day of what could be a lengthy legal battle over Senate Bill 4, which has been billed as the toughest state-based immigration bill in the country.
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Demographics
Trump administration weighs in on sanctuary cities court battle
The Justice Department filed a statement of interest in the federal court case over Texas’ Senate Bill 4, arguing that the state is within its rights to adopt the anti-“sanctuary cities” law.
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Politics
Texas group that fueled Trump voter fraud claim scales back 2016 election audit
True The Vote says it’s running short on the cash needed to complete an audit of 2016 presidential voting — an effort Donald Trump, while spreading unproven claims of fraud, applauded in his first days in the White House.
