Ken Paxton

The lawsuit argues the county commissioners court misused taxpayer dollars by hiring Civic Government Solutions to facilitate the program in a partisan manner. The attorney general's office claims the company encourages people to cast ballots for progressive candidates.

Abbott said more than a million people have been taken off Texas voter rolls since 2021, a reform that he said cracks down on illegal voting. But local voting officials said voter roll removal is routine.

Texans who have secured a court order to update the sex listed on their birth certificates can no longer do so at this time, according to a new state policy that blocks transgender Texans from making these changes.

From Greg Abbott touting removals from Texas’ voter rolls to Ken Paxton initiating raids over allegations of vote harvesting, here’s a breakdown of what you should know.

Paxton says it violates state law for the State Fair to ban firearms from Fair Park, which is owned by the City of Dallas.

Paxton, a Republican, cut a deal with prosecutors earlier this year to do community service and pay restitution in lieu of being tried for felony fraud. A copy of the deal has not been publicly released, but Paxton’s lawyer has confirmed the type of community service his client will perform.

In a major loss for the special prosecutors, the First Court of Appeals in Houston ruled that a lower court erred in ordering the lawyers to be paid $300 an hour for their work on the Paxton fraud case.

The city has 15 days to make the State Fair reverse its ban on all firearms — including licensed concealed carry — before Paxton says he'll seek legal action.

Judge Sherri Tibbe dismissed the lawsuit Attorney General Ken Paxton filed against the City of San Marcos over its ordinance decriminalizing low-level marijuana possession.

Federal clinics in Texas are already required to get parental permission to prescribe birth control after a 2022 court ruling.