Ken Paxton

Judge Andrew Hanen's ruling doesn't affect the status of more than 600,000 current DACA recipients.

Merritt officially began his Democratic campaign Tuesday with an emphasis on the voting rights battle that caused state House Democrats to leave Texas a day earlier.

Guzman's candidacy would add a new dynamic to the primary that is already unfolding between incumbent Ken Paxton and Land Commissioner George P. Bush.

The Texas bar association is investigating whether state Attorney General Ken Paxton’s failed efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election based on bogus claims of fraud amounted to professional misconduct.

Bush made his challenge official Wednesday evening during an event at a downtown Austin bar. Former President Donald Trump said last week that he would issue an endorsement in the race "in the not-so-distant future."

The policy required asylum seekers who passed through Mexico on their way to the U.S. to stay in Mexico while their claims were processed. Many were forced to live in sometimes dangerous and unsanitary migrant camps.

Bush said the state's top law enforcement official "needs to be above reproach."

Paxton and his lawyers argue that Gov. Greg Abbott's statewide order that undoes a previous mask mandate overrides any local requirements.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is under FBI investigation over claims of using his office to help a political donor, gave a job in recent months to another supporter: a onetime neighbor whose family chipped in $50,000 to help the Republican fight a 2015 felony indictment.

The statewide mask mandate and restrictions on businesses were lifted Wednesday morning, but leaders in Austin and Travis County argue local rules regarding masking and other health protocols remain in effect.

Beleaguered Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who attended the pro-Donald Trump rally that preceded the U.S. Capitol siege, issued civil investigative demands to Twitter after the company banned the former president from its platform.

Texas’ Attorney General Ken Paxton said Monday he’s suing electricity provider Griddy for passing along massive bills to its customers during last month’s winter storm.