Ken Paxton settles with one porn website over Texas' age verification law Attorney General Ken Paxton's office has reached an agreement with a porn website over a law meant to prevent children from being able to access adult content online. According to the agreement ... 04/26/2024 - 9:06 am | View Link
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton comes to Jasper County with David Covey Drain the swamp in not only Washington, but also Austin was the message from David Covey and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who made a stop in Jasper on Thursday ... 04/25/2024 - 10:16 pm | View Link
Harris County DA Kim Ogg gives Lina Hidalgo staffer cases to Ken Paxton It's not Ogg-ver yet. Slated to leave her seat at the end of the year after losing her primary bid, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg announced Thursday that she will be handing her office's ... 04/25/2024 - 9:50 am | View Link
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Seattle Children's Hospital reach settlement on trans care "Let this make our position clear: medical providers in Texas must abide by our laws," the attorney general said in light of the settlement. 04/23/2024 - 6:51 pm | View Link
TX Supreme Court blocks $500 monthly payments after Ken Paxton files appeal against Uplift Harris Harris County officials cannot continue to abuse their power and the people’s money to score political points, and we will fight every step of the way to hold them accountable," Paxton said in a press ... 04/23/2024 - 2:49 pm | View Link
A year and a half after Mother Jones exposed how Oklahoma courts were imprisoning mothers for longer than their abusers, state lawmakers passed a bill that could allow some of those mothers’ sentences to be shortened. But this week, Gov. Kevin Stitt vetoed the legislation.
In an award-winning investigation in 2022, I told the story of Kerry King, a mom in Tulsa who got 30 years in prison under the state’s “failure to protect” law because she couldn’t stop her abusive boyfriend from beating her 4-year-old daughter.
CNN's Dana Bash reacts to Joshua Steinglass' cross-examination of David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer, about whether he suppressed stories to help a presidential candidate during the 2016 elections.
The first criminal trial of a former US president is underway, with Donald Trump facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to hush-money payments allegedly made in 2016 to cover up an affair he had with adult film star Stormy Daniels. Here’s the latest—the key updates and absurd moments—from the historic trial.
Public birthday wishes are a tricky art.
Trump’s political operatives are putting together a plan that would give him input into the Federal Reserve, including making him an “acting” central bank board member, according to the Wall Street Journal. Via CNBC:
The plans, which the Journal report described as highly secretive, are part of a 10-page document that suggests Trump — if elected — would be consulted on interest rate decisions.
Jamie Raskin hilariously suggested that the RNC headquarters could host the Supreme Court after wingnut justices appeared open to recognizing some form of presidential immunity yesterday. Via HuffPost:
Host Joy Reid, who noted that Trump’s federal election interference case could be remanded back to the D. C. Circuit Court of Appeals and thus further delay the trial past Election Day, called the Supreme Court majority “so clearly politicians” before looping in Raskin.
“Well, they’re politicians who are not even subject to popular election unlike me.