Ken Paxton paid $2.3 million to defense lawyers for impeachment trial
The lawyers were paid from his campaign, according to a report filed this week.
By Patrick Svitek, The Texas Tribune - January 18, 2024Attorney General
Republicans 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, 2022The Republican nominees for governor, secretary of state, and attorney general in Michigan have denied the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election results.
By Adrian Cole - October 19, 2022An August press release from Paxton’s office said he is protecting the Second Amendment from President Biden, but Biden didn’t create the ban.
By Emily Singer - October 12, 2022Republican nominee for Kansas governor Derek Schmidt, the state’s longest-serving attorney general, has troubling ties to the fiscally disastrous governorship of Sam Brownback and faces a popular Democratic incumbent in November.
By Adrian Cole - October 03, 2022Abraham Hamadeh said he would enforce the state’s total ban on abortion at a time when most voters believe it should be legal to some degree.
By Emily Singer - September 30, 2022The Nevada Republican took the legal maximum from Curtis Debord, who was indicted for illegal weapons trafficking in the late 1990s.
By Josh Israel - September 29, 2022