The same day Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 4 into law, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a law suit requesting it be declared constitutional. SB4 bans sanctuary cities in the state of Texas. It requires all Texas law enforcement agencies to hold arrested persons until their immigration status is checked with ICE.
Texas lodged a preemptive lawsuit Monday against local officials considered hostile to the state’s new anti-sanctuary cities law, the first salvo in an expected legal fight over the controversial measure. State Attorney General Ken Paxton said the federal lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, is necessary to protect the law from challenges by liberal …
Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit Tuesday against U.S. agencies for violating the Nuclear Waste Policy Act. Paxton’s suit asks the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit to force an up or down vote by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on the licensing of the Yucca Mountain as well as to stop the Department of Energy from spending tax dollars on “consent-based” siting. “For decades, …
Texas was sanctioned and its attorney general, Ken Paxton, reprimanded as deficient on Friday by a federal judge for ignoring court orders to hand over documents related to a lawsuit over the state’s voter registration practices, according to a published report. The Austin American-Statesman reported that U.S. District Court Judge Orlando Garcia of San Antonio has complained the …
Attorney General Ken Paxton took one last swipe at the Obama administration Tuesday, joining a throng of states suing the federal government for alleged overreach into the coal industry. Texas joined 12 states in a lawsuit seeking a review and injunction of the “Stream Protection Rule” which the Office of Surface Mining and Reclamation and Enforcement describes as a method to protect streams and wildlife. The suit, Paxton’s 21st against the Obama administration, accused the federal agency of adopting a “one-size-fits-all rule” which affects coal mining without input from states and imposes on state’s sovereign rights. …
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Waller County over its ban on guns at its courthouse. The suit, filed Monday afternoon in district court in Travis County, centers on a provision of Texas’ new open carry law, which took effect in January. The law, which allows Texans with licenses to openly carry handguns, has an exemption prohibiting …
Fill one of these out, carry a gun on a college campus. Monday, Texas public universities ushered in the first day of a new reality. Anyone on campus licensed to carry a handgun is now legally allowed to do so on portions of state owned, four-year college campuses, thanks to a bill passed during the 2015 legislative session.
A federal judge on Thursday tossed out a Texas lawsuit filed to prevent Syrian refugees from settling in the state. In dismissing the lawsuit, U.S. District Judge David Godbey said the state failed to make “a plausible claim for relief” in its filing. Today’s ruling is a victory for President Barack Obama and a refugee resettlement group named International Rescue Committee, both …
Volkswagen has agreed to pay Texas $50 million in connection with the German automaker’s admitted peddling of diesel vehicles rigged to surpass emissions limits, Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Tuesday. The partial settlement is part of a larger, multi-billion dollar agreement unveiled Tuesday that awards hundreds of millions of dollars to dozens of states and includes a $10 billion buy- …
Texas joined by 10 other states, filed a lawsuit Wednesday to stop a federal directive instructing school districts to let transgender students use the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity, Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Wednesday. Calling the Obama administration directive “outside the bounds of the …