Although the state Supreme Court stayed an order to keep polls open to 8:00 p.m., Harris County is attempting to include late votes in its official results.
Following reports of election improprieties, the state’s top investigative agency will assist the district attorney’s office in a criminal investigation.
Before the Texas Supreme Court, the Lilith Fund and Mark Lee Dickson clashed over whether statements by a pro-life activist could be considered defamation.
After delayed progress on a water reservoir serving both Houston and the Lower Brazos River basin, the legislature mandated it be sold.
The Libertarian Party of Texas said it would resist “this haphazard attempt by Republicans to limit voter choice and obstruct free and fair elections.”
The chair of the state Libertarian Party claimed they would resist the Republicans’ “totalitarian efforts to obstruct competition and limit voter choice.”
The court asked for briefs relating to a 1994 case on Texas sodomy laws, the latest of many legal details complicating the old abortion ban.
Mark Lee Dickson's social media posts and the ordinances he championed in several Texas cities have both called abortion funds "criminal."
The state’s highest civil court offered clarification of the Texas ban on officials soliciting unrequested mail ballot applications.
"Denying review will leave significant constitutional issues undetermined and subject to assumption," Justice Devine wrote in his dissent.
The court decided to preserve the order that stops DFPS from investigating abuse in the family that sued, a decision that split the justices.
The governor and lieutenant governor asked the court to consider an argument that the Whistleblower Act does not apply to elected officials.
