The Austin Chronicle: “Wednesday, Texas’ 3rd Court of Appeals denied Attorney General Ken Paxton’s request for a stay of a Travis County judge’s ruling ordering depositions in the ongoing whistleblower lawsuit that led to his impeachment earlier this year. The judge is seeking Paxton and his staff to appear for depositions; Paxton must now respond by Jan. 3. The whistleblowers’ 2020 lawsuit…
Month: January 2024
“Where lawsuits on Kentucky’s bans on abortion, gender-affirming care stand”
Lexington Herald Leader: “Like many states across the country, Kentucky has enacted laws restricting abortion access and gender-affirming health care for transgender youth. Both over the past year have brought lawsuits by Kentuckians who call them unconstitutional. … Since the trigger law and six-week ban took effect last summer, abortion has remained illegal. Health care…
“Could Andy Beshear Be President One Day?”
The New Republic: “Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear is an increasingly rare phenomenon: a Democrat able to win a deep-red state not once but twice. Beshear’s November reelection victory over Republican Daniel Cameron has raised his profile, leaving political observers to wonder whether a Democrat who won a statewide race in Kentucky—which supported Trump by a…
“Federal Judge Upholds Georgia GOP Map”
Political Wire: “A federal judge upheld Georgia’s new political districts that preserve Republican power, ruling Thursday that state legislators ‘fully complied’ with his order to create more districts with a majority of Black voters,” the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports. “The decision leaves in place political maps safeguarding the Republican Party’s 9-5 advantage in Georgia’s U.S. House delegation…