Attorney General Ken Paxton
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued an advisory explaining the legal limitations and potential issues regarding unsolicited voter registration applications mailed by various entities across the state.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the promotion of Austin Kinghorn to Deputy Attorney General for Legal Strategy.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has initiated legal action against the Travis County Commissioners Court to halt what he describes as the unlawful use of taxpayer funds. The county, which includes the City of Austin, contracted a partisan third-party organization to identify potentially unregistered voters without statutory authority.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against the Bexar County Commissioners Court following their decision to implement a program that would distribute voter registration applications en masse to residents, regardless of their eligibility or whether they had requested such forms.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has issued a warning to the commissioners courts of Bexar and Harris counties regarding their proposed plans to mail voter registration forms to individuals without verifying their eligibility.
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Texas, along with a bipartisan coalition of 29 other states, has reached a settlement ending the outstanding damages phase of an unclaimed property dispute before the U.S. Supreme Court. Texas and the other states will take possession of more than $190 million in unclaimed property.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued a legal advisory on election integrity and launched an email tipline ([email protected]) for the public to report suspected violations of Texas election law.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has secured a temporary administrative stay against the Biden-Harris Administration, blocking the "parole in place" policy while litigation continues.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has initiated a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and other officials in the Biden Administration. The suit, backed by a coalition of 16 states and America First Legal, challenges a new agency rule that grants "parole in place" to hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens. This policy change would allow certain classifications of illegal aliens to gain permanent residency status while remaining in the United States, contrary to federal law.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has initiated an investigation into reports that organizations operating in Texas may be unlawfully registering noncitizens to vote, in violation of state and federal law.
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On August 20, 2024, Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Election Integrity Unit executed multiple search warrants in Frio, Atascosa, and Bexar Counties as part of an ongoing election integrity investigation.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, along with attorneys general from twenty-three other states, has filed an amicus brief supporting an Arizona law that mandates proof of citizenship for voter registration. The coalition is requesting the Supreme Court of the United States to issue an emergency stay on a federal district court's injunction against the law.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has initiated legal action against the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, and other Biden Administration officials. The lawsuit aims to halt an enforcement guidance that allegedly mandates employers to implement “transgender” policies or face potential lawsuits for discrimination or harassment.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has issued a notice to the City of Dallas, urging it to rescind the State Fair of Texas's recent policy prohibiting citizens from lawfully carrying firearms on the premises during the annual event. The State Fair of Texas, which manages Fair Park under a twenty-five-year lease agreement with the city since 2002, announced this prohibition.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has secured additional legal protections for women in Texas's educational institutions, blocking the Biden Administration from interpreting Title IX to include "sexual orientation" or "gender identity" as protected classes.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has initiated legal action against the Biden Administration, aiming to halt a new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) final rule. This regulation could potentially lead to the closure of rural nursing homes, displacing elderly residents from necessary care.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against General Motors, alleging the company engaged in false, deceptive, and misleading business practices by unlawfully collecting and selling the private driving data of over 1.5 million Texans to insurance companies without their knowledge or consent.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has initiated an investigation into CenterPoint Energy, the electrical utility company serving the greater Houston area, for potential violations of Texas law during Hurricane Beryl.
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In December 2023, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton initiated an investigation into the major fundraising platform ActBlue to assess its compliance with applicable laws. ActBlue has faced numerous allegations of illicit activities, including claims that its platform may facilitate fraud. A key focus of the investigation is ActBlue’s previous failure to require donors to provide “CVV” codes when making credit card donations on the platform, a commonly required security measure.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has secured a significant victory against Google, with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruling that the company’s anticompetitive business practices and monopoly violate the Sherman Act, a federal antitrust law.