EL PASO, Texas — Former El Paso Democratic congressman Beto O’Rourke plans to soon announce that he will challenge Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s reelection bid in next year’s election, Texas political operatives told Axios on Sunday. The 48-year-old O’Rourke is one the highest profile Democrats in Texas. He was speculated to have been considering
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By Ariane de Vogue and Devan Cole, CNN A Texas doctor is publicly revealing that he violated a state law that bans abortions after six weeks and says he is inviting legal challenges under the controversial law, which has so far withstood efforts by pro-abortion rights supporters to block it. “On the morning of Sept.
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UPDATE: AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott said on Thursday that he directed state troopers and the Texas National Guard “to shut down six points of entry along the southern border” at the request of U.S. Customs and Border Protection — then reversed himself shortly after, blaming the Biden administration for flip-flopping in its request for state
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By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter A federal judge Wednesday set a hearing date for October 1 to consider a request from the Justice Department to freeze a Texas law that bars most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. The judge’s order means that the law will remain in place for now. Although
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By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer The new Texas law that bans most abortions in the state is being welcomed by many of the religious leaders who help bolster the anti-abortion movement. Yet some abortion opponents in U.S. religious circles are wary of the law and questioning the movement’s current direction. Some of the wariness
Continue Reading By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter In its boldest move to date, the Department of Justice asked a federal judge on Tuesday to issue a temporary restraining order to block enforcement of a controversial Texas law that bars abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy. “The United States has the authority to seek
Continue Reading The Texas law barring abortions at six weeks of pregnancy has women’s rights advocates up in arms for a number of reasons, including because it makes no exceptions for cases of rape or incest. CNN’s Randi Kaye reports.
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AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday signed into law sweeping GOP-led bail legislation that requires people accused of violent crimes to put up cash to get out of Texas jails. Senate Bill 6 was passed by the Texas Legislature last month, after Abbott declared changes to the state’s bail system an emergency at the beginning of the
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LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico State University professor has been traveling to advocate for audits of the 2020 presidential election amid a paid suspension for rejecting coronavirus health mandates from the school. The Las Cruces Sun News reports that the public university on Aug. 27 extended its emergency suspension of professor David
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AUSTIN, Texas — The nation’s largest and oldest Latino civil rights organization has filed a federal lawsuit in hopes of preventing a sweeping new Texas voting law signed earlier this week by Gov. Greg Abbott from going into effect. The lawsuit, filed by lawyers for the League of United Latin American Citizens in U.S. District
Continue Reading By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The Biden administration appealed on Friday a Texas court ruling that found the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program unlawful — injecting fresh uncertainty into the lives of thousands of immigrants. The Justice Department filed a notice to appeal US District Judge Andrew Hanen’s ruling, kicking off the appeals process
Continue Reading By Nicole Chavez, Dianne Gallagher and Jade Gordon, CNN Some clinics and groups helping fund abortion care in Texas are seeing an uptick in calls from people trying to “catch” them running afoul of the state’s restrictive new ban. “We have those people calling saying things like, ‘oh but can’t you slip me in’ because
Continue Reading During an NPR interview, US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer called the high court’s recent refusal to block a controversial Texas law that bars abortions at six weeks “very, very, very wrong.”
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — The Biden Justice Department sued the state of Texas on Thursday over its new six-week abortion ban. “That act is clearly unconstitutional under long-standing Supreme Court precedent,” U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said at a news conference. “Those precedents hold, in the words of Planned Parenthood versus Casey, that ‘regardless of whether exceptions
Continue Reading During the signing of a bill that banned 24-hour and drive-thru voting, Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott was asked by a reporter about the limitations of the state’s new abortion law.
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EDINBURG, Texas – A new measure signed into law Wednesday by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott will bring some financial relief to those with diabetes that use insulin. The new law will lower the cost of prescription insulin. State Rep. James Talarico (D-Round Rock), a former San Antonio educator, knows firsthand what the life-saving medication means for
Continue Reading By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The Supreme Court granted a request Wednesday from a Texas death row inmate who sought to block his execution because the Texas Department of Criminal Justice will not allow the inmate’s pastor to “lay hands” on him and audibly pray during the execution. In a brief order
Continue Reading Texas Governor Abbott signs election bill in law
Continue Reading By Tierney Sneed, CNN Abortion clinics and their allies are engaged in a game of Whac-A-Mole as they’ve obtained state court orders blocking individual anti-abortion activists from enforcing Texas’ six-week abortion ban — for now. But the effort has a larger end game: securing a Texas Supreme Court ruling striking down the law. Those abortion
Continue Reading By PAUL J. WEBER and JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is defending a new state law banning most abortions that also offers no exceptions for cases of rape or incest. The Republican said Tuesday that the law does not force victims to give birth even though it prohibits abortions
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ALAMOGORDO, New Mexico – Two of New Mexico’s congressional representatives visited Holloman Air Force Base on Tuesday afternoon to observe the living conditions of Afghan refugees. “There are a lot of little children wearing shirts that had the American flag,” said U.S. Rep. Yvette Herrell, the Republican congresswoman from southern New Mexico’s second congressional district.
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ALAMOGORDO, New Mexico – Against the strong recommendation of the Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, U.S. Rep. Yvette Herrell continues to endorse a horse de-wormer as an effective Covid-19 treatment. “I’m a huge proponent, under doctor’s orders, to try whatever other alternative there is,” the Republican southern New Mexico
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CNN’s Anderson Cooper talks to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) about Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s response when he was asked about the state’s new abortion ban impacting rape victims.
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AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday announced a third special legislative session that will begin on Sept. 20 and tackle redistricting, restrictions on transgender student athletes and the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. “The Texas Legislature now has the opportunity to redraw legislative and congressional districts in accordance with the new census numbers,” Abbott said
Continue Reading AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday signed into law a bill that bans 24-hour and drive-thru voting, imposes new hurdles on mail-in ballots and empowers partisan poll watchers. The restrictive voting measure adds Texas to the list of Republican-controlled states that have seized on former President Donald Trump’s lies about widespread voter fraud and clamped down
Continue Reading Journalist Shefali Luthra from The 19th News breaks down one of the strictest abortion laws in the country and what happens next.
Continue Reading By Christina Carrega and Tierney Sneed, CNN Attorney General Merrick Garland pledged Monday to protect abortion clinics in Texas by enforcing a federal law that prohibits making threats against patients seeking reproductive health services and obstructing clinic entrances. While the Justice Department continues to explore legal avenues for challenging the six-week abortion ban in Texas,
Continue Reading By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Hours after the Supreme Court refused to block a Texas law prohibiting most abortions on Wednesday night, a small group of leaders at rideshare company Lyft convened to discuss how the company would respond. “Our President and CEO, John Zimmer and Logan Green, reached out and said, ‘What can we
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By Tierney Sneed, CNN The anti-abortion movement has won its biggest returns yet on its decades-long investment on reshaping the courts, with a Supreme Court order that allowed the country’s second most populous state to cut off almost all access to the procedure. For a generation, abortion foes have employed a multi-pronged strategy of electing
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Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) talks with CNN about her opposition to Texas’ restrictive abortion ban.
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