“The Constitution’s protection of religious liberty is somehow even better than Chick-fil-A’s chicken,” Paxton wrote in a Thursday letter to San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg and the rest of the council.
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Environment
Texas sues company behind Deer Park terminal fire
Attorney General Ken Paxton filed an environmental lawsuit against Intercontinental Terminals late Friday seeking tens of thousands of dollars in damages.
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Politics
Ted Cruz and John Cornyn vote against Joaquin Castro’s resolution blocking Trump’s emergency order
But multiple Republican senators joined Democrats in backing the resolution, which passed the Senate. President Donald Trump has said he’ll veto the measure.
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Texas Voting Rights
Federal judge temporarily blocks Texas from purging voters in citizenship review
U.S. District Judge Fred Biery called the review “ham-handed” and ordered counties not to remove voters from the rolls without his approval and “a conclusive showing that the person is ineligible to vote.”
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TribCast
TribCast: Property taxes, school finance, data centers and a state senator’s bid to redefine a crime
On this week’s TribCast, Ross talks to Emma, Aliyya and Edgar about Sen. Angela Paxton’s controversial bill that could impact her husband, efforts to get property tax legislation passed, a status check on the promised school finance bill and bidding out the state’s data storage to private companies.
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Texas Legislature 2019
Sen. Angela Paxton files bill that would allow her husband, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, to issue exemptions from securities regulations
Billed as a consumer-protection effort, the proposal would allow approved individuals to serve as investment advisers without registering with the state board — a felony under Texas law that Ken Paxton was charged with in 2015.
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Texas Voting Rights
The AG’s office told lawmakers it isn’t investigating voters on Texas’ citizenship review list. It told a local official the opposite.
A Paxton deputy told a Guadalupe County official Feb. 1 that the attorney general’s office “has pending criminal investigations related to these issues.”
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Texas Voting Rights
Texas AG Ken Paxton says his office hasn’t launched criminal investigations of voters flagged for citizenship review
Some lawmakers had fretted that sending the preliminary, faulty list to the state’s top prosecutor would intimidate voters.
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Texas Legislature 2019
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is seeking more power this session to prosecute voter fraud and abortion-related crimes
Paxton’s office has asked lawmakers for millions more in funding and expanded jurisdiction to go after certain crimes. Critics say the requests are aimed at political gains.
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Analysis: Texas election officials serve up a plate with lots of red meat, few veggies
The latest “voter fraud” news from the Texas secretary of state’s office raised a lot of eyebrows — not because it was solid, but because it wasn’t.
