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29 Apr 2024, 4:44 pm by lennyesq
Greg Abbott (R) said Monday his state will not abide by the Biden administration’s sweeping new changes to Title IX, the federal civil rights law prohibiting sex-based discrimination at government-funded schools. *** Top education officials in Florida, Louisiana, Wyoming, South Carolina and Oklahoma have publicly rebuked the Biden administration’s changes to Title IX, arguing the new policies roll back the rights of women and girls by expanding the landmark civil rights… [read post]
28 Apr 2024, 1:30 pm by Eugene Volokh
UT Austin, at the direction of Governor Greg Abbott, appears to have preemptively banned peaceful pro-Palestinian protesters due solely to their views rather than for any actionable misconduct. [read post]
26 Apr 2024, 10:20 am by Ilya Somin
Greg Abbott's response to some of the campus protests in his state falls into the latter category, and thereby violates the First Amendment. [read post]
25 Apr 2024, 4:25 am by SHG
Greg Abbott saying the students belong in jail. [read post]
24 Apr 2024, 5:57 am by Norman L. Eisen
This autocracy threat tracker is also available as a PDF file. [read post]
18 Apr 2024, 9:02 am by Irene
It is known as Operation Lone Star, and it was launched by Governor Greg Abbott in March 2021 as the illegal immigration crisis gripped his border state. [read post]
18 Apr 2024, 7:43 am by Daniel J. Gilman
On competition rulemaking generally, see former FTC General Counsel Alden Abbott (here); former DOJ Antitrust Division Chief Counsel for Economics Greg Werden (here); Richard Pierce of George Washington University Law School (here); and Thomas Merrill of Columbia University Law School (here). [read post]
However, Texas Governor Greg Abbott released a statement Wednesday claiming that Operation Lone Star, Abbott’s overall immigration plan of which SB4 is part, has been successful at curbing “illegal crossings” in Texas. [read post]
27 Mar 2024, 7:50 am by Evan George
Greg Abbott signed HB 2127 — known as the Texas Regulatory Consistency Act — which bars cities and counties from passing regulations that are stricter than state ones. [read post]
27 Mar 2024, 2:20 am by Immigration Prof
., has an interesting take on Texas Governor Greg Abbott's transportation of migrants to northern cities: "While Operation Lone Star has failed to deter border crossings, [Governor] Abbott’s busing program is... [read post]
25 Mar 2024, 9:09 pm by Jacob Sapochnick
Greg Abbott in December, makes entering Texas illegally a state crime and allows state judges to order immigrants to be deported. [read post]
21 Mar 2024, 2:29 pm by Daniel J. Gilman
I have many concerns about the FTC’s NPRM (see here and here, for example, and add Brian Albrecht here and here; Alden Abbott here; and Greg Werden here). [read post]
20 Mar 2024, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Rather, the case arose because Texas Governor Greg Abbott and the Republican-dominated Texas legislature pursued a radical policy premised on the notion that a state could decide for itself that the federal government was not doing enough to enforce federal law and assume responsibility for that fundamentally federal function even in the teeth of opposition from the national executive. [read post]
20 Mar 2024, 12:56 pm by Ryan Scoville
Greg Abbott (R) issued to prohibit private contractors from transporting immigrants who were previously detained or subject to expulsion. [read post]
” Texas Governor Greg Abbott has defended the legislation by saying that it is necessary for the state’s “right to defend itself” against an irregular migrant “invasion” at the southern border. [read post]
19 Mar 2024, 3:44 pm by lennyesq
Greg Abbott in December, makes entering Texas illegally a state crime and allows state judges to order immigrants to be deported. [read post]
15 Mar 2024, 1:45 pm by Michael Lowe
  Essentially, this new statute is just one more arrow being placed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott into the Operation Lone Star quiver of laws made available to state and local law enforcement to try and stop people from crossing the Mexican border into Texas outside of standard immigration procedures. [read post]
14 Mar 2024, 3:19 am by Immigration Prof
Newsweek reports that Texas Governor Greg Abbott celebrated his state arresting nearly 500,000 migrants in a new report released earlier this week. [read post]