Tag Archives: Greg Abbott

The Texas Tribune reports: The Texas Supreme Court will hear arguments Thursday in a narrow challenge to the state’s new abortion law, which has blocked access to the procedure after about six weeks of pregnancy for nearly six months. This hearing before the state high court is an interim step in the ongoing federal lawsuit brought by abortion providers trying …

Via press release from DNC chairman Jaime Harrison: Republican governors and legislators have targeted innocent children solely aiming to exist as their truest selves. Medical experts have reaffirmed the reality that gender-affirming care saves lives. But instead, Governor Abbott is cynically using Texas children as a political weapon and perpetuating senseless hatred towards the transgender and gender non-conforming community. We …

The Austin American-Statesman reports: Responding to conservative Republican opposition to gender-affirming care for young transgender Texans, Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday ordered the state child welfare agency to investigate reports of “gender-transitioning procedures” as child abuse. The move came one day after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued a written opinion defining gender-affirming care as child abuse under state laws …

The Texas Tribune reports: Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday blasted the indictment of more than a dozen Austin police officers for alleged excessive force during the May 2020 racial justice protests — and dangled the possibility of pardons for them. “Those officers should be praised for their efforts, not prosecuted,” Abbott said in a statement. “Time will tell whether the …

Austin’s CBS News affiliate reports: Despite spending the past few months asserting his confidence the power grid won’t fail and the power will stay on in any weather event, Gov. Greg Abbott backtracked from his normal confident boasts Tuesday when discussing whether or not he expects anyone to have their electricity cut off during this week’s forecasted winter weather across …

The Houston Chronicle reports: Gov. Greg Abbott has announced plans to amend the Texas Constitution with a Parent Bill of Rights if he is re-elected. The proposal follows Abbott’s introduction of a Taxpayer Bill of Rights this week. Abbott, who is running for reelection, has made it a point to target inappropriate content in schools. In November, he directed the …

Salon reports: The number of rejected mail-in ballot applications is skyrocketing in Texas counties under new Republican-authored voting restrictions recently signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott. The Texas crackdown on mail-in voting appears to be hitting hardest in the state’s most densely populated counties, which also tend to have more voters of color and predominantly vote Democratic. In Travis …

The Texas Tribune reports: A planned San Antonio charter school was on the verge of winning final approval from the Texas Education Agency last August when a final set of requests arrived. Among them: The school needed to scrub its website and application of a quote by “How to Be an Antiracist” author Ibram X. Kendi. In documents obtained by …

Courthouse News reports: Texas Governor Greg Abbott sued President Joe Biden and U.S. military officials Tuesday to stop them from imposing a Covid-19 vaccine mandate on members of the Texas National Guard. The Republican governor claims the lawsuit is not about being for or against the vaccine, but rather about protecting Texas’ sovereignty against federal overreach. To keep states’ Air …

The Texas Tribune reports: Texas has added 36 more deaths to the official death toll from the February snow and ice storm, bringing the total to 246 in what was one of the worst natural disasters in the state’s history. The Department of State Health Services disclosed the new total in a report on the storm that was released Friday …

The Dallas Morning News reports: Gov. Greg Abbott is asking the federal government for help adding COVID-19 testing sites in some of Texas’ largest counties, including Dallas and Tarrant. His request came Friday as the highly contagious omicron variant spreads throughout the state and tests are in high demand. “Detecting COVID-19 and preventing COVID-related hospitalizations are critical to our fight …

The Texas Tribune reports: In March, Abbott ended the statewide mask mandate, marking the beginning of a sharp shift toward preaching “personal responsibility” and an outright rejection of any government mandate — whether state or local — to curb the pandemic. That philosophy carried the state through the delta variant this fall, even as hospitals were overrun and deaths climbed. …

The Texas Tribune reports: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott visited Starr County on Saturday to inaugurate the first stretch of a border wall being built by the state, calling it an “unprecedented” investment in border security. Construction crews on site said about 880 feet of barrier have been installed as of Saturday afternoon. At a news conference in front of the …

San Antonio’s ABC News affiliate reports: Gov. Greg Abbott is guaranteeing Texans won’t have issues keeping the power on this winter. “I can guarantee the lights will stay on,” Abbott told FOX 7 in Austin. “I signed almost a dozen laws that make the power grid more effective.” Abbott was referring to multiple bills he signed into law this year …

El Paso’s CBS News affiliate reports: A newly signed agreement will allow the construction of border wall on state-owned land in the Rio Grande Valley. Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush announced Monday that a lease agreement between the General Land Office and the Department of Public Safety will allow the construction of a border wall along a GLO-owned farm …

“I am not until I am — OK? Is this something I’ve been thinking about for 20 years, and I know what I want to do, but I’m just holding on to my answer? No. “It’s a new embassy of leadership that I have really been doing my diligence to study, to look into, to question what it is, what …

The Texas Tribune reports: Beto O’Rourke is running for governor, challenging Republican Greg Abbott in a clash of two of Texas’ biggest politicians. “I’m running to serve the people of Texas, and I want to make sure that we have a governor that serves everyone, helps to bring this state together to do the really big things before us and …

The Texas Tribune reports: A federal judge ruled late Wednesday that Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive order prohibiting mask mandates in schools violates the Americans with Disabilities Act — freeing local officials to again create their own rules. The order comes after a monthslong legal dispute between parents, a disability rights organization and Texas officials over whether the state was violating …

The Texas Tribune reports: Gov. Greg Abbott asked the Texas Association of School Boards on Monday to determine the extent to which “pornography or other inappropriate content” exists in public schools across the state and to remove it if found. “A growing number of parents of Texas students are becoming increasingly alarmed about some of the books and other content …

The Texas Tribune reports: Texas’ transgender student athletes will be restricted from playing on K-12 school sports teams that align with their gender identity under a bill Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law Monday. House Bill 25, authored by state Rep. Valoree Swanson, R-Spring, will require student athletes who compete in interscholastic competition to play on sports teams that correspond …