Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton

LaRose said Issue 1 would help prevent corruption. But it could make it even worse

BY: - July 19, 2023

Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose has claimed that a proposal to make it much harder to pass citizen-initiated amendments to the Ohio Constitution would have prevented an aspect of the biggest bribery scandal in state history.  But LaRose, who announced his candidacy for U.S. Senate on Monday, has refused to discuss his own role […]

Centene settles with Texas over conduct first detected in Ohio

BY: - September 23, 2022

Centene settles with Texas over conduct first detected in Ohio.

Federal law that protects emergency life-saving abortions challenged in Texas suit

BY: - July 15, 2022

WASHINGTON — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration Thursday, arguing that states shouldn’t have to comply with a federal law that protects doctors who perform abortions to save the patient’s life. “This administration has a hard time following the law, and now they are trying to have their appointed […]

People visit a memorial in the Oregon District, where a mass shooting left nine dead and 27 wounded, on August 07, 2019 in Dayton, Ohio. The shooting happened less than 24 hours after a gunman in Texas opened fire at a shopping mall in El Paso killing 22 people. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

On anniversary of mass shootings, Republican AGs move to kill bump-stock bans

BY: - August 4, 2021

Tuesday and Wednesday were days to mourn gun violence — at least for some — in Ohio and Texas. Consider: At 10:45 a.m. local time on Aug. 3, 2019, a 21-year-old Dallas-area man allegedly walked into an El Paso Walmart and used a semi-automatic rifle to kill 23 and wound 23 others. It was the […]