Texas Attorney General

Republican U.S. Senate candidate and Texas AG Ken Paxton may owe overdue property taxes and fees on one of his properties in Hawaii according to Maui County records.

State officials also referred 117 people for investigation related to noncitizen voting, but confirmed nearly 600 other flagged voters are U.S. citizens.

Civil rights advocates have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Texas law requiring the state's public schools to display the Ten Commandments. Monday's petition tees up a case that could set a new national standard for the limits of religious expression in classrooms.

An Alaskan surrogate has traveled to Texas for legal protection after a California couple has refused treatment for a severe heart condition.

A surrogate who went to Texas after a dispute with a California couple over treating a severe birth defect has given birth a day after a judge in Texas ordered a hospital to provide life-sustaining care. The surrogate mother, McKenna West, alleges in legal filings that the California couple for whom she was carrying the child pressured her to get an abortion after learning the fetus had a severe heart defect.

The fair banned firearms in 2024 after a shooting at Fair Park. Paxton's lawsuit has faced multiple setbacks, the latest from a court appointed entirely by Gov. Greg Abbott.

In Texas v. Kennedy, the state of Texas is challenging the constitutionality of a mandate that has allowed disabled people to receive care in their homes rather than in institutions for decades.

Members of the hemp industry are suing Texas, claiming that the ban on hemp-derived THC products impose an unconstitutional burden on interstate commerce.

James Talarico’s comments come after ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found that the attorney general may have broken state law by voting using an address where he no longer appears to live.

As attorney general, Paxton threw unprecedented resources into stopping Biden's agenda. That record is his sword and shield as he runs for U.S. Senate.