Texas Sen. Nate Johnson, who represents Dallas. Joe Jaworski, former Galveston Mayor, attorney, and mediator. The attorney general is the state’s top legal officer, representing the state in most ...

Twelve House incumbents from Texas are set to leave Congress after this year, with the possibility of additional turnover in the May runoffs and November general election.

Ken Paxton speaks during 2024 AmericaFest in Phoenix. Texas' Republican Senate runoff is getting ugly. And we're guessing it may get a whole lot uglier.

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued an advisory memo this past week reminding residents, businesses and state officials that the state’s existing civil rights, privacy and ...

Washington has a talent for transforming insignificant procedural votes into events that have an impact on politics as a whole. On a recent afternoon inside a committee room on Capitol Hill, lawmakers ...

Investigators are searching a New Mexico ranch where Jeffrey Epstein once entertained guests, amid allegations that it may ...

The series of laws, called the Readmission Acts, also barred states from constitutionally disenfranchising people convicted of crimes that were considered common law at the time. Under current law, ...

A measure introduced by Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird requiring DNA samples to be taken from people arrested on felony or violent aggravated misdemeanor charges — before they are convicted of the ...

Oklahoma County commissioner calls for audit, dissolution of jail trust ...

Texas Sen. John Cornyn is reversing course on his long-standing support for the Senate filibuster in an attempt to push through a President Donald Trump-backed voter ID bill while embattled in a ...

Empirical SCOTUS is a recurring series by Adam Feldman that looks at Supreme Court data, primarily in the form of opinions ...

Whomever is chosen in this primary will face a new Republican challenger, as current Attorney General Ken Paxton is running for Senate.