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Smog levels in Texas surge during heat wave, bringing worst summer air quality in a decade

Emissions are reacting with the summer heat to create high levels of smog, hazardous air pollution that damages the lungs. But state officials are pushing back on ozone pollution controls proposed by the EPA, arguing such rules would compromise the electric grid.

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott leads Beto O’Rourke by 5 points, poll finds

AUSTIN, Texas — Republican Gov. Greg Abbott leads Democrat Beto O’Rourke by 5 percentage points in the Texas governor’s race, according to a new poll released Wednesday.

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Judge orders Texas not to investigate two more families with transgender children

AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas judge on Friday issued an injunction prohibiting the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services from pursuing child abuse investigations into two more families with transgender children.

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Without Obergefell, most states would have same-sex marriage bans

The U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in 2015, but in most states, laws or constitutional amendments would revive the prohibition if the high court decides, as it did with abortion, that such unions are not a constitutionally protected right.

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How could Texas Republicans further restrict abortion next year?

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Republicans have led the charge to pass laws to restrict abortion for nearly a quarter-century, but until recently, federal courts let the procedure continue, striking down laws that impinged too much on what was for 49 years a constitutional right.

Tribune News Service

Volkswagen argues that Greg Abbott’s choice of judges in lawsuit could tilt emissions case in Texas’ favor

Because the state is a party in Attorney General Ken Paxton’s cases against the companies, Volkswagen lawyers have argued that allowing the Texas governor to appoint justices to a case for which the state stands to win a substantial amount of money would give “the impression that the State has…

The Texas Tribune

Carl P. Leubsdorf: Voter fraud claims not new to Republicans

The Republication preoccupation with voter fraud didn’t start with Donald Trump.

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Ousters, upsets halfway through 2022 primary election season

More than halfway through a tumultuous primary season, voters have rendered verdicts in a number of contests, many of which featured candidates arguing they best represented a continuation of policies favored by former President Donald Trump

The Independent UK

Texas clamping down on Roe reversal

"Extremist politicians are on a crusade to force Texans into pregnancy and childbirth against their will"

Salon

Texas Supreme Court allows enforcement of 1925 abortion ban scrapped in Roe v. Wade

WASHINGTON – The Texas Supreme Court ordered late Friday that the state’s century-old abortion ban, struck down in Roe v. Wade in 1973, can be enforced immediately.

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Texas can enforce 1925 abortion ban, state Supreme Court says

The ruling Friday night exposes abortion providers to fines and lawsuits even before the state’s trigger law goes into effect.

The Texas Tribune

Texas Supreme Court blocks order allowing abortions to resume

Whether Texas clinics that had begun scheduling appointments would halt services again was not immediately clear.

Axios

Prosecutor won’t sue Texas AG Paxton over Jan. 6 records

Prosecutors say they won’t move forward with a lawsuit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over his refusal to release his communications relating to his appearance at a pro-Donald Trump rally that preceded the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol last year

The Independent UK

With SCOTUS EPA Decision, Texas Coal Plants Live to Cook the Climate Another Day

Regardless of the federal ruling, local efforts to shut down the most polluting power plants and switch on clean energy continue.

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Paxton ready to defend Texas sodomy law

"They won't stop till they roll back all of our civil rights," Paxton's Democratic challenger said

Roll Call

Supreme Court greenlights end of 'Remain in Mexico' policy - Roll Call

The Supreme Court held Thursday that migrants do not need to be forced back to Mexico pending decisions in their U.S. immigration court cases.

The Texas Tribune

Abortion funds languish in legal turmoil, their leaders fearing jail time if they help Texans

It’s unclear whether Texas’ tangled web of abortion laws would make it a crime to pay for a Texan to leave the state to get an abortion, but the threat has compelled the funds to cease services.

Benzinga

Texas Attorney General Pledges To Defend Anti-Sodomy Law If Supreme Court Reverses Ruling

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has declared himself ready, willing and able to recriminalize sodomy in his state if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns a nine-year-old decision that declared the Lone Star State’s prohibition of the act unconstitutional.

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The Independent UK

Texas attorney general wants to prosecute companies that help women access abortions

Ken Paxton wants to impose fines of more than $100,000 on corporations that facilitate abortion care

The Guardian - US

Texas sheriff says he ‘will not persecute’ those seeking an abortion

Javier Salazar posted on Facebook that he would not use his power to ‘impose the morals’ of others on those ‘exercising a right’

Salon

Texas judge blocks Paxton abortion plan

Paxton told prosecutors to immediately “pursue criminal prosecutions based on violations" of Texas trigger law

Tribune News Service

Texas clinics can temporarily resume abortions, state court rules

DALLAS — Texas abortion clinics can temporarily resume abortions up to six weeks of pregnancy, following a ruling from a state court blocking the enforcement of pre-Roe laws banning abortion.

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Texas sued by ACLU over ‘antiquated’ pre-Roe abortion ban

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was accused in a lawsuit of illegally threatening criminal prosecution of abortion providers before new restrictions in the state go into effect, following the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade last week.

The Texas Tribune

Texas abortion groups file last-ditch suit to hold off ban for a bit longer

Texas abortion providers and abortion funds ceased operations in the state on Friday for fear of being criminally charged under state laws that pre-date Roe v. Wade.

The Texas Tribune

Pandemonium, then silence: Inside a Texas abortion clinic after the fall of Roe

Texas clinics immediately stopped providing abortions Friday after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Then, they had to tell their patients.

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