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Texas Governor Greg Abbot signed a “fetal heartbeat” abortion bill into law on Wednesday that bans abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected and allows citizens to sue doctors who perform abortions after the limit. [read post]
The US District Court for the Western District of Texas ruled that Governor Greg Abbott’s executive order banning mask mandates violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) on Wednesday. [read post]
21 Apr 2020, 9:43 am by Rebecca Salamacha
Texas Governor Greg Abbot issued Executive Order GA-09 on March 22, 2020. [read post]
The Governor of Texas, Greg Abbot, Thursday signed into law a bill prohibiting social media platforms from censoring users’ digital expression based on viewpoints or geographic location. [read post]
6 Jun 2017, 9:38 pm by Benson Varghese
By now you’ve probably heard that Governor Greg Abbot signed a ban against texting and driving, which is going into law effective September 1, 2017. [read post]
6 Feb 2019, 8:00 am by Rania Combs
The Texas ABLE act was signed into law by Governor Greg Abbot on June 19, 2015. [read post]
31 Oct 2013, 6:06 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Ponton wants Attorney General and Texas gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbot to stop the fire marshal's investigation into shoddy forensics, pulling a page from John Bradley's playbook when Rick Perry appointed him chair of the Forensic Science Commission and he tried to stop the FSC's investigation into the Todd Willingham case. [read post]
1 Apr 2020, 7:40 pm by Jarrett Reed
On Tuesday, March 31, 2020, Governor Greg Abbott issued an Executive Order effective 12:01 A.M., Thursday, April 2, 2020, directing every person in Texas to minimize social gatherings and minimize in-person contact with people who are not in the same household, except where necessary to provide or obtain essential services. [read post]
9 May 2013, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
In yesterday's brief decision, the court said in part:The evidence in this case confirms that religious messages expressed on run-through banners have not created, and will not create, an establishment of religion in the Kountze community.After the decision, Texas attorney-general Greg Abbot issued a statement (full text) saying in part:This is a victory for religious liberties and for high school cheerleaders who stood up to powerful forces that tried to silence their voices. [read post]
18 Feb 2015, 5:22 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
The state has extra money beyond Governor's the border security promises, if only the Legislature and Greg Abbot prioritized the surcharge issue as much.The state really gains nothing from border deployments but a nine-figure budget line item - the National Guard aren't really allowed to do anything and DPS' roadblock program got shut down and is unlikely to be authorized by the Legislature. [read post]
Abbot plaintiffs, (2) investigating any similarly situated families or individuals, (3) prosecuting any similarly situated families or individuals and (4) enforcing mandated reporting requirements for those who “facilitate or provide gender-affirming care. [read post]
2 Nov 2014, 7:16 am by Tom Smith
On Tuesday, it is all but inevitable that Greg Abbot’s campaign and Texas voters are going to beat Wendy Davis like a circus monkey, and it will be her second significant defeat in the campaign: She ran triumphantly unopposed in the New York Times primary, with Robert Draper all but kissing the hem of her garment, but she took a beating in the Rio Grande primary, with her penniless nobody opponent outperforming her in critical border counties that had gone heavily for Barack… [read post]
4 May 2020, 1:41 pm by Greta Ravitsky and Anastasia A. Regne
As we previously reported, on Monday, April 27, 2020, Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced Phase One of his much anticipated plan to reopen Texas while minimizing the spread of COVID-19. [read post]