by WorldTribune Staff, September 3, 2020 Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit to stop the clerk of Harris County from sending mail-in ballots to all of the county’s 2.4 million registered voters. “Election officials have a duty to reject mail-in ballot applications from voters who are not eligible to vote by mail,” Paxton […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 29, 2019 Some 95,000 non-citizens are registered to vote in Texas and about 58,000 non-citizens may have voted in Texas elections between 1996 and 2018, state election officials said. Texas Secretary of State David Whitley said on Jan. 25 that the large number of non-citizens registered was discovered in a year-long […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 20, 2018 In a reversal of a previous order, a U.S. district judge ruled the government does not have to accept new requests for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Illegal aliens who were brought into the U.S. as children, known as “Dreamers,” can renew their DACA applications, but […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 13, 2018 The Women’s March defended Backpage.com the day after the U.S. Department of Justice seized the sex-trafficking website and shut it down. On April 7, the Women’s March tweeted: “The shutting down of #Backpage is an absolute crisis for sex workers who rely on the site to safely get in […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 30, 2016 The attorney generals of four states have launched a last-minute effort to stop President Barack Obama’s handover of the Internet on Oct. 1. Both the Senate and House of Representatives, fearing the backlash from a potential government shutdown, opted against blocking the transition as part of a budget deal […]
