Attorney General Ken Paxton has won his biggest legal victory yet since securities fraud allegations surfaced more than a year ago.
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AG Ken Paxton Asks to Jump Into Austin Rental Fight
The attorney general is siding with the Texas Public Policy Foundation in a challenge to Austin’s limits on short-term rentals.
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Demographics
Supreme Court Won’t Rehear Immigration Case
The Obama administration suffered another setback on Monday in its effort to change the country’s immigration laws.
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Criminal Justice
Paxton Loses Last-Minute Bid to Stop Federal Internet Transition
Attorney General Ken Paxton on Friday lost his last-minute bid for a court injunction to prevent the federal government from transferring its oversight of internet registrations to an international body.
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Criminal Justice
With Lawsuit, Paxton Joins Cruz Fight Over Internet “Giveaway”
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is jumping into Ted Cruz’s fight to stop what the U.S. senator calls President Barack Obama’s illegal Internet “giveaway.”
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Economy
Paxton Blasts Clean Power Plan Ahead of High-Profile Legal Arguments
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is helping to lead a 28-state effort to strike down the Clean Power Plan, President Obama’s landmark effort to to fight climate change.
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Politics
Texas Appeals Voter ID Rulings to U.S. Supreme Court
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Friday asked the justices to hear his arguments about why the state’s photo ID requirements for voting do not discriminate against Hispanics and African-American voters.
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Criminal Justice
Texas Sues Obama Administration Over New Overtime Rule
Texas is helping lead a lawsuit against President Barack Obama’s administration over a new rule that makes millions of more workers eligible for overtime pay.
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State Government
Lawsuit Backed by Ken Paxton Could Spell Trouble for 21 Texas School Districts
Months after releasing an opinion saying it could be illegal for school districts to reduce or repeal their local option homestead exemptions, Attorney General Ken Paxton immediately intervened in a lawsuit filed Thursday.
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Politics
Analysis: Texas Politics is So Boring in 2016, Folks Are Already Talking 2018
Outside of the presidential race, the 2016 election in Texas is pretty quiet — so quiet that a lot of political people are spending their time talking about 2018 — and even 2020 as well.