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Stories on federal actions aimed at Texas, tracked on the Overreach Docket.
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The Supreme Court will decide whether Washington's 1868 ban on home distilling stands, after a Texas-based hobby distillers group won in a Texas federal court and at the Fifth Circuit.
The state asked the Fifth Circuit to overturn a deadline to cool all 104 prisons by 2029 and asked the trial judge to suspend the order, citing a $1.5 billion cost.
The Fifth Circuit struck the federal ban on interstate handgun sales in a case brought by a Texas dealer.
The Supreme Court restored DHS's expanded SAVE citizenship database, which Texas used to check all 18 million registered voters. Travis County told the Court the data flagged citizens as noncitizens.
Texas spent more than $11 billion doing the federal government’s job on the border during the Biden years.
Judge Robert Pitman ordered air conditioning in every Texas prison by December 31, 2029, told TDCJ to report what it will ask the Legislature for, and ruled that a shortage of funds...
Washington will send Texas $7.5 billion for border security, 14 months after Congress authorized it.
A June 9 federal order waived Texas's own laws to send bulldozers into Big Bend National Park for border barriers and patrol roads.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton secured a win last week that gun owners in Texas and seven other states won’t forget.
A federal appeals court cleared the way Friday for Texas to enforce Senate Bill 4, the 2023 law that would allow state and local police to arrest people suspected of entering the...
U.S. District Judge Alan Albright overturned Texas Senate Bill 13, declaring unconstitutional a state law protecting pension funds from fossil fuel boycotts.
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito temporarily restored Texas's 2025 congressional map after federal judges blocked the state's electoral sovereignty.
