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The governor-elect targets the state’s $1 billion school voucher program, the Justice Department joins Texas’s Medicaid fraud suit against Planned Parenthood, and bill prefiling for the next Legislature opens Monday.
An outside audit of TEAM, the statewide voter registration system, will judge its long-term salvageability, with results due for the 2027 session, as county officials join working groups to fix it.
Mayor John Whitmire ordered Houston police to stop contacting ICE about administrative warrants when no one is arrested, and Austin's mayor asked for new police orders once Gina Hinojosa takes office.
Houston limits police contact with immigration agents, Senfronia Thompson says she has the votes for speaker, and an appeals court resets the hemp rules case for its incoming justices.
Republican senators are discussing a rules change to cut the powers of Lieutenant Governor-elect Vikki Goodwin, whose authority over the Senate comes mostly from rules the senators adopt.
Democratic candidates won all 10 statewide judicial races, taking four Texas Supreme Court seats, three on the Court of Criminal Appeals and all three on the 15th Court of Appeals.
Rep. Eddie Morales Jr. of Eagle Pass announced a run for Texas House speaker, the first declared challenger to Rep. Senfronia Thompson, as Thompson picked up Rep. Joe Moody's backing.
A Texas Supreme Court justice ousted Tuesday heads for a federal judgeship, the House speaker race gets a second candidate, and Senate Republicans weigh curbing the lieutenant governor-elect’s powers.
Fifth Circuit judges asked whether two Chinese citizens living abroad can sue over Texas's 2025 land law at all. Texas says they lack standing and constitutional rights.
The full Fifth Circuit will rehear the challenge to Texas's SCOPE Act and has vacated a July ruling that held Section 230 overrides the law's filtering requirement.
Rep. Senfronia Thompson of Houston announced a run for Texas House speaker as Democrats won 83 of 150 House seats, ending Republican control that began in 2003.
Texas draws its most midterm voters since at least 1970, and the attorney general-elect says he will stop suing out-of-state doctors who mail abortion pills.
