Alex Nguyen | The Texas Tribune

Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal died Saturday morning at a Dallas hospital, one day after being taken into custody by ICE.

Maggie Ellis and Kristen Hawkins win Texas Supreme Court Dem primaries. John Messinger wins his GOP race for Court of Criminal Appeals, while Alison Fox and Thomas Smith head to a runoff.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday reaffirmed a November ruling removing a block on Senate Bill 12 and denied a request by plaintiffs for a rehearing.

The survey findings released Monday come just eight days before the start of early voting.

The wave of legal challenges is in response to the Trump administration’s intensified immigration enforcement and its new policy expanding mandatory detention for undocumented immigrants.

The restrictions, which went into effect on Nov. 18, could upend the ability of many undocumented residents to legally own vehicles.

Several media outlets, quoting anonymous federal officials, reported that hundreds of Texas troops could be coming home soon from the Chicago area after their activation was halted by a federal court.

Paxton accuses nonprofit Jolt of an “unlawful voter registration scheme,” but a legal filing provided no evidence that it registers noncitizens to vote.

The rising number of youth sent from counties like Tarrant is helping to push the waitlist for beds in youth prisons to near an all-time high, the state says.

After Illinois’ governor condemned the planned deployments as “Trump’s invasion” and urged Abbott to resist, the Texas governor said he fully authorized them.

The Austin lawmaker, first elected in 2004, chaired the influential House Foreign Affairs and Homeland Security committees. He is the second Texas Republican this week to bow out of Congress.

Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, said Texas has no authority to “impose its cruel abortion ban here.”