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Bills Letting Transgender People Seal Name-Change Requests Contrast Moves in Texas, Florida
You can change your name, but in many U.S. states you can’t completely shed your old one — something that’s of particular concern to transgender people and that legislators in at least two states are trying to change.
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Attorney General Ken Paxton and Office Face Questions About Settlement With Whistleblowers
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton faced questions about a $3 million settlement between his office and four ex-staffers who accused him of corruption. The question from lawmakers: Will taxpayers be on the hook for the pay out?
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Texas AG Paxton Faced Questions From Lawmakers About Million Dollar Settlement
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton faced questions about a $3 million settlement between his office and four ex-staffers who accused him of corruption. The question from lawmakers: Will taxpayers be on the hook for the pay out? Political Reporter Julie Fine reports.
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Justice Department in DC to Take Over Corruption Probe Into Texas AG Ken Paxton
Justice Department officials in Washington have taken over the corruption investigation into Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, removing the case from the hands of the federal prosecutors in Texas who’d long been leading the the probe.
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AG Paxton Warns CVS, Walgreens Against Sending Abortion Pills in Texas Mail
CVS and Walgreens recently announced their willingness to aid the Biden Administration’s radical abortion agenda by selling abortion pills via mail.
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Ken Paxton Agrees to Apologize, Pay $3.3M in Taxpayer Money to Staff Who Accused Him of Corruption
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has agreed to apologize and pay $3.3 million in taxpayer money to four former staffers who accused him of corruption in 2020, igniting an ongoing FBI investigation of the three-term Republican.
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Gov. Abbott Calls For Investigation Into Atmos Energy After Natural Gas Outages
State regulators called for the state to investigate Atmos Energy for failing to deliver natural gas to North Texas residents during the recent cold snap.
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Gov. Abbott Calls For Investigations Into Atmos Energy, Gas Outages
State regulators called for an investigation into Atmos Energy for failing to deliver natural gas to North Texans during the recent cold snap.
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Texas AG Sought Driver License Data on Gender Change: Report
The office of Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton this summer sought data on how many people had changed the gender information on their driver’s license, according to a Washington Post report.
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Democrats Still Struggle to Win Statewide Race in Texas
Voters approved third terms for the governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general. While Democrats did better than expected nationally– they still have not won a statewide race in Texas for decades. Political reporter Julie Fine looks at what is next.
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Ken Paxton Wins 3rd Term, Delivers Speech
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton won reelection Tuesday, adding to Republicans’ decades of dominance in the state’s top offices despite a slew of legal problems and dysfunction in his agency.
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Ken Paxton and Dan Patrick Reelected for Third Terms as Texas Attorney General, Lieutenant Governor
Republican Texas attorney General Ken Paxton returns for a third term as the state’s top law official, and NBC 5’s Evan Anderson is here with more.
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Ken Paxton Defeats Rochelle Garza in Race for Texas Attorney General
Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton won a third term in Tuesday’s midterm elections under the cloud of an FBI investigation and dysfunction in his office that Democrats believe have opened an opportunity to end decades of GOP power in the state. NBC 5’s Scott Gordon reports from Paxton’s watch party in Plano and NBC 5’s Maria Guerrero from Democratic challenger Rochelle Garza’s watch...
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Ken Paxton Wins 3rd Term, Holds Off Democrat Rochelle Garza in Texas AG Race
Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sought a third term in Tuesday’s midterm elections under the cloud of an FBI investigation and dysfunction in his office that Democrats believe have opened an opportunity to end decades of GOP power in the state.
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Troubled History, Democrat Rochelle Garza Stand Between Ken Paxton and a Third Term
Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, who has weathered a storm of troubles like few other elected officials in the U.S., is hoping to win his third term Tuesday if he can hold off Democratic challenger Rochelle Garza, a first-time candidate and former ACLU attorney.
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Rochelle Garza Looks to Defeat Attorney General Ken Paxton
Garza’s campaign is focused on reproductive freedoms, voting rights and Attorney General Paxton’s own legal past.
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Transgender Advocates Respond to Federal Judge Ruling
A federal judge in Amarillo ruled protections for transgender employees laid out by the Biden Administration go too far. The ruling is tied to a lawsuit filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
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Dysfunction, Disarray in Texas AG's Office as Ken Paxton Seeks Third Term
As Ken Paxton seeks to fend off legal troubles and win a third term as Texas’ top law enforcement official, his agency has come unmoored by disarray behind the scenes
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Texas AG Ken Paxton Quashes Subpoenas He Apparently Ran From on Monday
Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton quashed a subpoena Tuesday that apparently caused him to run from his home Monday morning as a process server tried to deliver the documents that would have compelled him to testify in an abortion access case.
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Judge Throws Out Case Against Deputy to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton
A Texas judge has thrown out a lawsuit that the state bar brought seeking to discipline the top deputy to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over the Republican’s failed effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election based on bogus claims of fraud.