Texas DACA recipients ponder leaving the state amid push to revoke their work permits

Feds plan to take over Texas lawsuit against Planned Parenthood

As the state attorney general’s office transitions from Republican to Democratic hands, the Justice Department moves to intervene in the state’s legal battle over Medicaid payments.

Texas officials acknowledge problems with voter registration system, will work with locals on a fix

Election officials for more than a year sought fixes to TEAM, the state’s voter registration and management system.

Texas’ school voucher program could be “unrecognizable, if not extinct,” says Democratic lawmaker

Democrats won back the Texas House for the first time in 24 years. Gov. Greg Abbott’s bullishness on vouchers turned off some Republican voters in rural communities that have historically been strongholds for his party, politicians said.

With Democrats sweeping Texas, the GOP-led war on cities nears its end

Democrats are less likely to pick on cities the way Republican lawmakers have, observers said. But a fight over housing affordability will test that.

Texas appeals court cancels oral arguments in challenge to state hemp rules

The move clears the way for the three newly elected Democratic justices on the 15th Court of Appeals to hear the cases after they take office.