Attorney General Greg Abbott

Laura Bassett

Appeals Court Restores Texas Planned Parenthood Funding

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 05.07.2012

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It's been a bumpy week for Planned Parenthood clinics in Texas. First a U.S. district judge temporarily stopped a new law that would have cut Planned ...

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Laura Bassett

Texas Attorney General Compares Planned Parenthood To Terrorist Organization

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 05.01.2012

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Just two hours after a U.S. district judge stopped a Texas law that would have eliminated Planned Parenthood's participation in the state's Women's He...

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Racism in Post-racial America

Jason Stanford | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Attorney General Greg Abbott, Newt Gingrich, Voter Suppression, Voting Rights Act, Trayvon Martin, Texas Voter Id, Racism in America, Voter ID Laws, Politics News
Jason Stanford

Y'all can go home. Put away your hoodies and cancel the vigils. Pick up the race cards, the game's over. There is no more racism in America. The Texas Attorney General said so.

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We Need a Personhood Movement for Women, Too

Jason Stanford | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Rick Perry Women's Health Program, Attorney General Greg Abbott, Debbie Lesko, Planned Parenthood, Jason Stanford, Rick Perry, Politics News
Jason Stanford

It's time for Republicans to recognize that women should have at least as much power in their lives as they imagine a fertilized egg has.

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Make My Phone Stop Ringing and You Just Might End Up in the White House!

Bill Bartmann | Posted 05.07.2012

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Bill Bartmann

The targets for debt collectors have doubled in the last decade, with 14 percent of U.S. consumers today subject to debt collection. This 14 percent represents tens of millions of voters.

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John Celock

In Texas, New State Law Missing Key Sentence

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 11.16.2011

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A one-sentence omission in new Texas license plate law could jeopardize provisions for enforcing regulations on missing and illegitimate plates. Te...

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BP To Pay Texas Millions For Air Pollution Violations

AP | RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI | Posted 01.03.2012

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HOUSTON — BP will pay Texas $50 million after the sides reached an unprecedented settlement over air pollution violations at the beleaguered oil...

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AG Abbott's Constitutional Miss on Federal Education Dollars

Barbara Ann Radnofsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Federal Funding, Barbara Ann Radnofsky, Education, Secretary of Education, Fifth Circuit, Texas Governor Rick Perry, Appropriations, u.s. Department of Education, Texas, Attorney General Greg Abbott, Texas Constitution, Politics News
Barbara Ann Radnofsky

Texas officials violated the spirit and the letter of the Texas Constitution by thwarting the purpose of the money requested by Governor Perry in his July 2009 application and received by Texas.

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Attorney General Abbott's Tainted Wyly Money

Barbara Ann Radnofsky | Posted 05.25.2011

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Barbara Ann Radnofsky

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced yesterday that they were filing charges against Texas billionaires Samuel and Charles Wyly for massiv...

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AG Abbott's Quick BP Defense Will Backfire

Barbara Ann Radnofsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Barbara Ann Radnofsky, Attorney General Greg Abbott, BP Oil Spill, Attorney General, Texas Governor Rick Perry, Politics News
Barbara Ann Radnofsky

Our state's chief executives are tripping over themselves rationalizing BP's actions. The jury is out on whether BP has taken 'all the right actions,' as Mr. Abbott claims. BP certainly has not been accurate in its statements.

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For Sale: One Used Attorney General?

Barbara Ann Radnofsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Campaign Donations, Wall Street Reform, Texas, Nuclear Waste, Barbara Ann Radnofsky, Attorney General Greg Abbott, Wall Street, Economy, Politics News
Barbara Ann Radnofsky

As taxpayers we pay our elected officials to serve the people and protect our state and our interests. What happens when the very companies that our ...

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Texans Died, Mr. Abbott

Barbara Ann Radnofsky | Posted 05.25.2011

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Barbara Ann Radnofsky

In a most regrettable conclusion for the people of Texas, the Texas Attorney General aided potential defendants in the Gulf disaster by denying deaths, economic and sub-surface ecological damages preceding visible oil on our shores.

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Come to Texas for Current AG Managed Public Option and Mandates

Barbara Ann Radnofsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Barbara Ann Radnofsky, Public Option, Mandates, Attorney General, Health Care Reform, Texas, Attorney General Greg Abbott, U.S. Constitution, Commerce Clause, Health Care, Health Insurance Reform, Politics News
Barbara Ann Radnofsky

We in Texas have a public option, suggested by and administered by the office of the Texas AG, to provide a reasonable cost option to parents who are now mandated to provide medical care payment.

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Outrageous Comments by Texas AG Absolving BP in the Weeks After the Oil Spill

Barbara Ann Radnofsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil and Gas, Campaign Donations, Texas, Foreign Oil, Barbara Ann Radnofsky, 2010 Elections, Attorney General Greg Abbott, BP Oil Spill, Gulf of Mexico, Elections 2010, Politics News
Barbara Ann Radnofsky

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's May 3 BP oil spill press conference following his BP briefing resulted in his declaration that BP had, up to May ...

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Texas Attorney General Was For A Health Care Mandate Before He Was Against Them

The Plum Line | Greg Sargent | Posted 05.25.2011

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One of the state attorney generals who has signed onto a nationally-watched lawsuit to overturn health reform is Republican Greg Abbott of Texas. The ...

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Gay Divorce in Texas

Barbara Ann Radnofsky | Posted 05.25.2011

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Barbara Ann Radnofsky

Texas AG Abbott, running for re-election, has chosen his battleground issue. He has intervened in an Austin divorce case involving two women, married in Massachusetts, with an adopted son.

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Digging Further Into the Texas Rape Kit Scandal

Joe Cutbirth | Posted 06.01.2011

Read More: Texas Attorney General, Rape, Rape Kit, Texas Legislature, Joe Cutbirth, KPRC Rape, Texas Crime Victims, Texas Victims' Compensation Fund, Texas Rape Kit Scandal, Kprc-Tv, Forensic Exam, Attorney General Greg Abbott, CNN Rape, Texas Rape Victim Billed, Greg Abbott, Politics News
Joe Cutbirth

It's a sad day when state lawmakers, the attorney general, city leaders or the police act as if a forensic exam even vaguely resembles a victim service or compensation to a woman who has been raped.

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How Can Texas Ask Women to Pay for Rape Kits?

Joe Cutbirth | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Texas, Texas Legislature Rape Kit, Tea Bag, Rape, Rape Kit, Joe Cutbirth, Austin, Texas Crime Victim's Compensation Fund, Attorney General Greg Abbott, Rick Perry, Politics News
Joe Cutbirth

On a rare occasion, journalists shine a light on a public policy that is so disgusting it literally stuns you -- it just takes your breath away and leaves you speechless.

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