Ken Paxton

The U.S. Department of Justice asked the U.S. Supreme Court to step in on the ongoing case, but Texas argues that the federal government lacks the standing necessary to overturn the law.

Republican Ken Paxton is dedicating more resources to ensure the election is secure despite no evidence of widespread voter fraud in Texas.

Paxton is facing challenges from three fellow Republicans in his bid for a third term. In interviews at The Texas Tribune Festival, they each took him to task for the legal problems he has accrued in office, with two saying he should resign.

"There may simply be no enforcement mechanism. Well, that means that the so-called requirement or mandate is more metaphysical in nature than it is actually a kind of legal impediment," says a Texas law expert.

The Fort Worth lawmaker, who has been close to Paxton, is the third serious primary challenger to emerge.

In May, a three-justice panel of the First Court of Appeals sent the case back to Collin, Ken Paxton's home county. Prosecutors asked the full court to reconsider.

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.