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Can Texas declare a border 'invasion' and return migrants to Mexico?

HOUSTON — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is facing mounting pressure from far-right and former Trump administration officials to immediately declare a migrant "invasion" at the U.S.-Mexico border, under a constitutional provision that would allow local law enforcement and National Guard troops to stop migrants at the border and send them…

Los Angeles Times

Child welfare workers protest bigotry

Agency "losing so many tenured staff and wisdom because this job is just not manageable anymore," a supervisor said

Salon

Twenty-one states sue Biden administration over public transport mask mandate

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody (R), joined by 20 Republican and Democratic attorneys general, filed a lawsuit on March 29, 2022, in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida that aims to end the Biden administration’s federal mask mandate for public transport. The mandate, issued by…

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Abortion rights advocates and transgender people ‘play God,’ Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says

AUSTIN, Texas — Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick cast the debate over LGBTQ rights as a religious fight between God-fearing people and those who lack faith in a higher power.

Tribune News Service

Automakers Come In Support Of EPA's Stricter Tailpipe Standards: WSJ

Automakers, stating in court papers, will back environmental regulators in defending the higher standards, thus backing the Biden administration's stricter air pollution standards for passenger cars, writes the Wall Street Journal. The Alliance for Automotive Innovation, a lobbying group for automakers and suppliers, petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington,…

Benzinga

GOP won't stop at "don't say gay" bill

Having conquered the Supreme Court, the GOP take aim at same-sex marriage, anti-discrimination laws, and even Pride

Salon

Texas AG calls Pride Week "illegal"

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday accused the Austin Independent School District of violating state law

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Texas investigates ‘off-label’ use of puberty blockers amid ongoing fight over transgender care

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is investigating two pharmaceutical companies to determine whether they marketed certain drugs to treat transgender youth experiencing gender dysphoria.

Tribune News Service

Texas attorney general says school district’s Pride week ‘breaks state law’

Ken Paxton called district’s Pride week ‘sex education’ and claimed without parental consent it is against law

The Guardian - US

Anger as Texas attorney general declares Pride Week ‘illegal’

‘The Texas Legislature has made it clear that when it comes to sex education, parents – not school districts – are in charge,’ writes Ken Paxton

The Independent UK

Attorney General Ken Paxton appeals to Texas Supreme Court as state halts probes into parents of trans children

AUSTIN, Texas — Attorney General Ken Paxton is asking the Texas Supreme Court to allow the state to restart its abuse investigations into the parents of transgender children.

Tribune News Service

Texas appeals court again halts child abuse investigations into parents of transgender youth

AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas appeals court has again temporarily blocked the state from investigating parents solely for providing gender affirming care to their transgender children.

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Conservative satire site The Babylon Bee locked out of Twitter for misgendering trans White House official

The Christian parody outlet is refusing to delete a tweet deliberately referring to Biden official Dr Rachel Levine as a man

The Independent UK

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SC Sen. Tim Scott says Supreme Court vote on Judge Jackson won’t be based on skin color

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Texas AG Ken Paxton refuses to call transgender official Rachel Levine a woman — again

AUSTIN, Texas — After Twitter flagged him for “hateful conduct,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton dug in on his decision to deny the gender identity of the nation’s highest-ranking transgender official.

Tribune News Service

Twitter flags Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's tweet about US assistant health secretary, who is transgender

FORT WORTH, Texas — Twitter has decided it would be in the public's best interest to keep a tweet from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on its website after he called U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine a man.

The Independent UK

Trump’s spokeswoman attacks Jeb Bush’s son ahead of Texas attorney general runoff

George P Bush will face Ken Paxton in a runoff for Texas’s attorney general’s race

The Independent UK

Texas governor’s order to treat transgender children’s care as child abuse is blocked by judge

Policy has caused ‘terror and anxiety’ among transgender youth and their families, lawsuit says

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‘I Don’t Know Where It’s Safe’: Family of Trans Child Who Dined With Ken Paxton Is Facing Child Abuse Investigation

The Dallas-area family says it is under investigation by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services and at risk of losing their kids.

Tribune News Service

Does Texas think transgender care is abuse? Ken Paxton’s comments contradict state's legal stance

AUSTIN, Texas — Fighting to keep his job in a heated GOP primary this year, Attorney General Ken Paxton repeatedly insisted that certain medical treatments for transgender youth abusive and illegal.

Texas Observer

The State of Paxton v. Bush

What’s worse for a Republican in 2022: To be an alleged felon, or to bear the same last name as Jeb and the Georges?

Tribune News Service

State Bar of Texas seeks sanctions against Dallas lawyer Sidney Powell over Trump 2020 vote disputes

AUSTIN, Texas — The State Bar of Texas is seeking sanctions against Dallas lawyer Sidney Powell over her failed efforts to contest the 2020 election results on behalf of the Donald Trump campaign.

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Texas appeals court sides with parent of transgender teen in case of alleged child abuse

DALLAS — A judge will consider whether to block Texas’ new directive defining certain care for transgender youth as child abuse, after an appeals court sided with the family of a trans teen who sued over the policy.

The Independent UK

They hosted him for dinner. Now he’s accusing them of child abuse

‘Raising a transgender child in Texas has been one long political emergency’

Salon

Trans teen caught up in Paxton's game

Parents of a trans child who reached out to Paxton over dinner are now under investigation for child abuse

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