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Attorneys for the Mexican American Legislative Caucus took their latest challenge to Texas’s new political maps to the state’s high court. They argue lawmakers violated the Texas Constitution when drawing state house districts in the Rio Grande Valley.
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The U.S. Supreme Court left abortion providers only the narrowest avenue to challenge the ban on abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy. Friday’s Texas Supreme Court ruling has effectively ended that federal legal challenge.
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The Texas Attorney General is defending the governor’s decision to order the state’s child welfare agency to investigate parents, and health care professionals for providing certain gender-affirming medical treatments to transgender kids.
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Young replaces former Justice Eva Guzman, who resigned in June ahead of a campaign for attorney general.
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A new report from the Aspen Institute says debt collection lawsuits often upend family finances and that this "broken" system is stacked against defendants.
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The extension comes as the federal moratorium on evictions is set to expire on July 31.
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Some Democrats have said it's ultimately Gov. Abbott's responsibility to restore the funding he chose to veto.
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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.
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Judges in Texas are being told it's not their job to enforce a CDC order aimed at stopping evictions. Housing groups fear that a wave of unnecessary evictions will leave thousands homeless.
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The effort is part of a widespread push by Republicans to reject new voter-accommodation strategies implemented because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Abbott, a former Texas Supreme Court justice himself, picked Huddle to serve on the all-Republican high court.
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Four positions on the state's highest civil court are on the ballot this fall.