Pax­ton Steps Up to Defend States’ Rights After Biden Admin Forces Alas­ka to Adopt Left-Wing Hunt­ing Policies

Attorney General Paxton joined a West Virginia-led cert-stage amicus brief before the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the Biden Administration’s attempts to encroach upon states’ rights and make it more difficult for Americans to hunt.

December 22, 2022 | Press Release

Pax­ton Sends Let­ter to VA Chal­leng­ing New Rule Attempt­ing to Pro­vide Tax­pay­er Fund­ing to Pay for Abortions

Attorney General Paxton has joined a Mississippi-led letter to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Denis McDonough challenging a new VA rule that attempts to circumvent state laws that protect the unborn by providing taxpayer dollars for abortions.  

December 22, 2022 | Press Release

Pax­ton Takes Steps to Stop Biden’s Unlaw­ful Fed­er­al Stu­dent Loan Program

Attorney General Paxton has taken several actions to halt the Biden Administration’s sweeping federal student loan-forgiveness program, which does nothing to lower the costs of higher education and instead forces hardworking taxpayers to pay off hundreds of billions of dollars of college-educated individuals’ debt. 

December 21, 2022 | Press Release

Pax­ton Works to Stop UPS and FedEx from Tar­get­ing Gun Sell­ers With New Bur­den­some and Intru­sive Regulations

Attorney General Paxton has joined a coalition of states in sending two Montana-led letters to FedEx Corporation and United Parcel Service (UPS) over reports that the shipping companies have updated their terms of service for gun store owners.

December 21, 2022 | Press Release

Pax­ton Files Ami­cus Brief Defend­ing States’ Con­sti­tu­tion­al­ly-Des­ig­nat­ed Author­i­ty Over Their Nation­al Guard Units

Attorney General Paxton has joined a Mississippi-led merits-stage amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court to prevent the federal government from overregulating and unduly exercising authority over state National Guard units, which are the modern-day versions of what the U.S. Constitution identifies as “militias.” 

December 20, 2022 | Press Release

Pax­ton Peti­tions Fed­er­al Gov­ern­ment to Reverse Unlaw­ful and Destruc­tive Vac­cine Mandate

Attorney General Paxton has joined a multistate petition sent to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) opposing the draconian federal health care systems vaccine mandate.  

December 20, 2022 | Press Release

Pax­ton Peti­tions the U.S. Supreme Court to Pro­tect Title 42 After Biden Admin­is­tra­tion Aban­dons the Effec­tive Bor­der Policy

Attorney General Paxton has joined a multistate coalition urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a lower court’s decision to strike down Title 42, which will leave the already wide-open southern border even more exposed.    

December 19, 2022 | Press Release

Pax­ton Announces Set­tle­ment with iHeart­Media for Record­ing and Broad­cast­ing Decep­tive Advertisements

Attorney General Paxton announced a settlement with iHeartMedia, Inc. over the company’s recording and broadcasting of radio advertisements that promoted the Google Pixel 4 smartphone.

December 19, 2022 | Press Release

Pax­ton Leads Coali­tion to Defeat DACA After Biden Admin­is­tra­tion Attempts to Sal­vage the Ille­gal Immi­gra­tion Policy

Attorney General Paxton is leading a coalition of states in pushing back against the Biden Administration’s attempts to save the illegal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (“DACA”) program.  

December 16, 2022 | Press Release

Fed­er­al Court Hands State, Nation Major Vic­to­ry by Halt­ing the Biden Administration’s Attempts to End the Remain-in-Mex­i­co” Program

Attorney General Paxton last night secured a significant victory against the Biden Administration with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas staying the implementation of a rule that would end the Migrant Protection Protocols (“MPP”), otherwise known as the “Remain-in-Mexico” program.

December 16, 2022 | Press Release