Dan Bishop’s tough on crime talk clashes with his votes to deny police funding
Bishop opposed a bill that could’ve helped missing person investigations in his own district.
By Jesse Valentine - October 08, 2024Attorney General
Attorney General Ken Paxton and Secretary of State Jane Nelson are targeted in the new suit, escalating a pre-election war over voter registration efforts.
By Berenice Garcia, The Texas Tribune - September 17, 2024A state fair spokesperson said they would cooperate with the city of Dallas’s guidance on the matter.
By Juan Salinas II, The Texas Tribune - August 14, 2024Bishop compared his defense of an anti-LGBTQ bill to a soldier dying in combat
By Jesse Valentine - July 24, 2024Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum and nearly two dozen other Democratic-led states urged the U.S. Supreme Court to preserve the ability of emergency room doctors to provide abortions, arguing that failing to do so would have devastating effects for their health care systems and women across the country.
By Gloria Rebecca Gomez, Arizona Mirror - April 01, 2024The lawyers were paid from his campaign, according to a report filed this week.
By Patrick Svitek, The Texas Tribune - January 18, 2024Republicans Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton have taken thousands of dollars in donations from chemical companies and their affiliated PACs.
By Jesse Valentine - December 08, 2023Voters may have the opportunity to affirm the right to an abortion in the Montana Constitution in 2024.
By Nicole Girten - November 27, 2023Russell Coleman has taken tens of thousands of dollars from Big Tobacco and toxic polluters.
By Jesse Valentine - November 02, 2023Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Attorney General Ken Paxton’s long-delayed trial on securities fraud charges has been set for April 15. State District Judge Andrea Beall scheduled the trial during a hearing Monday morning in Houston. Paxton attended […]
By Patrick Svitek, The Texas Tribune - October 30, 2023The public overwhelmingly supports red flag laws, which allow law enforcement to prevent gun violence by temporarily confiscating guns from someone who poses a risk to themselves or others.
By Oliver Willis - July 27, 2023North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson attacked Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein for winning over a billion dollars in restitution from pharmaceutical companies.
By Josh Israel - July 14, 2023Attorney General Dana Nessel's comments come after her department's investigation into allegations of corruption and sexual assault against the state's former speaker of the House.
By Matt Cohen - June 09, 2023A county judge issued a temporary restraining order against Missouri’s Republican Attorney General preventing his emergency order from going into effect for at least another two weeks.
By Associated Press - May 02, 2023Officials in Washington, California, New York and Massachusetts have announced purchases of mifepristone and misoprostol.
By Rebekah Sager - April 11, 2023Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, a Republican candidate for governor in the state, accepted campaign money from lobbyists for corporations that paid settlements in connection with the opioid crisis.
By Matt Cohen - April 07, 2023State Rep. Donna Rozar made the comment while introducing a bill to create rape and incest exceptions for Wisconsin’s draconian ban on abortion.
By Emily Singer - March 16, 2023Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron called the Pregnancy Help Center, which seeks to convince pregnant people not to get abortions, ‘an amazing resource.’
By Emily Singer - February 24, 2023Karamo is an anti-abortion and anti-vaccine extremist who lost the 2022 Michigan secretary of state election.
By Emily Singer - February 21, 2023Wisconsin Democrats have vowed to continue viewing April’s judicial contest as a ‘de-facto referendum’ on abortion rights.
By 19th News - February 07, 2023Two-time losing candidate Leon Benjamin will again try to win the seat left open by the death of Democratic Rep. Donald McEachin.
By Josh Israel - December 20, 2022The Supreme Court of the United States may allow Republican-led state legislatures across the country to bypass other branches of their state’s government when it comes to regulating elections for federal office.
By Associated Press - December 05, 2022Despite several investigations led by Republicans in GOP-led states, there has yet to be any proof of election fraud from the midterms and most election results are being certified without issue.
By Associated Press - November 28, 2022‘If I was in that position, I probably would concede,’ former Republican Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer told the New York Times.
By Adrian Cole - November 21, 2022Healey and her running mate, Kim Driscoll, were also one of the two all-women gubernatorial tickets that won election this year.
By Associated Press - November 09, 2022‘We’ve always known this will be a close election and we have too much at stake to take anything for granted,’ the Michigan governor said on Oct. 29.
By Kaishi Chhabra - November 07, 2022Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf is under investigation for allegedly tampering with voting machines.
By Adrian Cole - November 04, 2022Republican candidate for Michigan secretary of state Kristina Karamo has filed a last-minute lawsuit targeting Wayne County’s absentee voting procedures.
By Adrian Cole - November 03, 2022Matt DePerno stated he agreed with the definition of marriage as “a God-ordained, sacred and legal union of one man and one woman” that the government does not have the “authority to alter.”
By Adrian Cole - November 01, 2022A federal investigation into allegations that Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton abused his powers began in 2020.
By Emily Singer - October 27, 2022Daylen Howard hired a political operative who is behind dark money groups pouring millions into multiple ballot drives.
By Adrian Cole - October 27, 2022