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Gov. Greg Abbott threatens $200 million in funding from major Texas cities over ICE policies

Gov. Greg Abbott ’s office has threatened to cut state funding to three of Texas’ largest cities if they fail to change policies that the governor says limit police cooperation with federal immigration authorities.

 

Texas’ highest criminal court overturns sentence of inmate who has been on death row for 47 years

Texas’ highest criminal court has overturned the death sentence of a Harris County man who was on death row for nearly half a century.

 

Trial over air conditioning in Texas prisons starts with dispute over alleged heat-related deaths

There were allegedly five heat-related deaths over the last two summers in Texas prisons, the plaintiff’s attorneys presented on the first day of the federal trial over insufficient air conditioning in these facilities.

 

Texas jails aren’t meeting deadlines to free inmates, costing some counties thousands in settlements

Jessica Jackson was supposed to be released from Dallas County jail in time for the holidays last year.

 

Appeals court clears way for Texas drag ban to take effect in March

Texas can enforce a 2023 law that restricts some public drag shows, a federal appeals court reaffirmed in a new ruling on Wednesday.

 

Texas jails have more than 400 pregnant inmates monthly. The state is studying what happens to them.

In May 2018, Ruby McPeters was eight months pregnant when she was booked into Hood County jail on a probation violation.

 

Attorney General Ken Paxton cannot shut down Texas Latino voting group, judge rules

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton failed to offer “any plausible proof” that Jolt Initiative, a nonprofit that aims to increase civic participation among Latinos, is violating the law, a federal judge ruled Thursday.

 

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Texas ID restrictions could prevent immigrants in US illegally from buying, registering vehicles

The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles is implementing more stringent photo identification requirements for all vehicle registrations and renewals in an abrupt shift that could shut out immigrants from legally owning vehicles.

 

Texas can enforce drag show ban; court suggests they don’t believe all drag shows would violate law

Texas can enforce a 2023 law that restricts some public drag shows, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.

 

New legislative panels will investigate “facts and circumstances” of deadly Central Texas floods

Top Republicans in the Texas Legislature have announced the creation of committees tasked with “getting to the bottom of” the July flooding that killed more than 130 people, including 25 young girls and two teenage counselors at Camp Mystic.