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Abortion funds languish in legal turmoil, their leaders fearing jail time if they help Texans

It’s unclear whether Texas’ tangled web of abortion laws would make it a crime to pay for a Texan to leave the state to get an abortion, but the threat has compelled the funds to cease services.

The Texas Tribune

Texas Attorney General Pledges To Defend Anti-Sodomy Law If Supreme Court Reverses Ruling

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has declared himself ready, willing and able to recriminalize sodomy in his state if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns a nine-year-old decision that declared the Lone Star State’s prohibition of the act unconstitutional.

Benzinga

Texas attorney general wants to prosecute companies that help women access abortions

Ken Paxton wants to impose fines of more than $100,000 on corporations that facilitate abortion care

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Texas sheriff says he ‘will not persecute’ those seeking an abortion

Javier Salazar posted on Facebook that he would not use his power to ‘impose the morals’ of others on those ‘exercising a right’

The Guardian - US

Texas judge blocks Paxton abortion plan

Paxton told prosecutors to immediately “pursue criminal prosecutions based on violations" of Texas trigger law

Salon

Texas clinics can temporarily resume abortions, state court rules

DALLAS — Texas abortion clinics can temporarily resume abortions up to six weeks of pregnancy, following a ruling from a state court blocking the enforcement of pre-Roe laws banning abortion.

Tribune News Service

Texas sued by ACLU over ‘antiquated’ pre-Roe abortion ban

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was accused in a lawsuit of illegally threatening criminal prosecution of abortion providers before new restrictions in the state go into effect, following the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade last week.

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Texas abortion groups file last-ditch suit to hold off ban for a bit longer

Texas abortion providers and abortion funds ceased operations in the state on Friday for fear of being criminally charged under state laws that pre-date Roe v. Wade.

The Texas Tribune

Pandemonium, then silence: Inside a Texas abortion clinic after the fall of Roe

Texas clinics immediately stopped providing abortions Friday after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Then, they had to tell their patients.

The Texas Tribune

Anti-choice right gloats, and dreams big

On social media, far right dunks extensively, promises national abortion ban and "thousand-year White Boy Summer"

Salon

How Are Texas Officials Responding to the End of ‘Roe’?

“Austin will, to the best of its ability, do all we can to protect our values and our people.”

Texas Observer

Wealth will now largely determine which Texans can access abortion

The U.S. Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade will not fall equally. Texans most likely to seek out abortion care in the past are now the least likely to be able to afford it. People of color will be most disproportionately affected.

The Texas Tribune

‘Today, life won’: gleeful Republicans ‘praise the Lord’ after abortion ruling

Lawmakers react with joy after Roe v Wade overturned, with Texas attorney general Ken Paxton declaring an ‘annual holiday’

The Guardian - US

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sends employees home to ‘celebrate’ Roe v. Wade news

FORT WORTH, Texas — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sent employees home on Friday to “celebrate” the overturning of Roe. v Wade, according to an email sent throughout the agency.

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Texas Republicans cheer end of Roe v. Wade while Democrats vow to fight back in November

Attorney General Ken Paxton declared on Twitter that he would be closing his office and “making it an annual holiday” in honor of the Supreme Court decision.

The Texas Tribune

Abortions in Texas have stopped after Attorney General Ken Paxton said pre-Roe bans could be in effect, clinics say

Paxton and some anti-abortion activists are arguing that state laws that banned abortion before Roe v. Wade — and were never repealed — could now be in effect in Texas.

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Across 10 states, attorneys general have collectively raised $48.4 million this election cycle

In the current election cycle across 10 states, attorneys general have collectively raised $48.4 million. Nearly half of that number has come from Josh Shapiro (D-Pa.), who has raised $20.5 million running for governor rather than for re-election. Two other attorneys general—Rob Bonta of California ($8.7 million) and Ken Paxton…

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Texas attorney general raises $5.9 million this election cycle

According to the most recent campaign finance reports filed with the Texas Ethics Commission, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has raised $5.9 million and spent $6 million between Jan. 1, 2021, and May 14, 2022. Paxton is currently ranked seventh in state-level donations in the 2022 election cycle.

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Texas Law Enforcement Is Aggressively Fighting Public Records Requests About the Uvalde Mass Shooting

Transparency advocates say police could invoke a notorious loophole that allows them to hide records of deaths in custody and police killings.

WEKU

Uvalde officials are using a legal loophole to block the release of shooting records

After 19 children were killed at a Texas elementary, law enforcement officials have given little information. They're now using the "dead suspect loophole" to prevent the public release of records.

Tribune News Service

Texas Attorney General Paxton cannot intervene in suit with Dallas hospital over transgender care, judge decides

AUSTIN, Texas — The state of Texas cannot intervene in a lawsuit between Children’s Medical Center Dallas and one of its doctors over gender-affirming care for trans patients, a Dallas judge decided Friday.

The Independent UK

Election 'deniers' quiet on fraud claims after primary wins

Dozens of Republican candidates who sought Donald Trump’s endorsement have spent months parroting the former president's baseless claims of 2020 election fraud

Salon

Ken Paxton on Uvalde: "God has a plan"

“Life is short no matter what,” muses Texas AG who backed Trump's coup and opposes any new gun regulation

WEKU

A judge blocks Texas from investigating families of trans youth

The temporary restraining order issued by Judge Jan Soifer halts investigations against three families who sued.

Tribune News Service

Texas judge temporarily halts 2 transgender child abuse investigations

AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas judge on Friday temporarily halted the state’s child abuse investigations into two families with transgender children, agreeing they faced immediate harm.

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