Texas Governor Greg Abbott appointed an interim attorney general on Wednesday afternoon. The action by the governor followed the automatic suspension of Attorney General Ken Paxton that resulted from his impeachment by the Texas House of Representatives on Saturday.
Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, won the Lone Star State’s Republican Primary, according to a projected victory from the Associated Press and Decision Desk HQ.
Former representative and failed Democrat presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke announced Monday his intent to run for Texas governor, setting up a clash with Gov. Greg Abbott (R) who already has a war chest of roughly $55 million at hand.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered 1,000 National Guard Troops to the Mexican border Friday. The troops are tasked with supplemental staffing for new detention facilities being built by the Department of Homeland Security to free up Border Patrol agents.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott tweeted a message pushing the state’s House of Representatives to pass the anti-sanctuary city bill and get it to his desk for signature.
A Texas sheriff dubbed “Sanctuary Sally” by her opponent during her election campaign, appears to be ready to live up to her campaign promise to not enforce the law regarding criminal illegal aliens.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott spoke to Texas National Guardsmen deployed along the border with Mexico in the days leading up to Christmas. He told the Guardsmen that more help for border security is on the way.
California liberals who snarled about the ethics of Governor Rick Perry’s regular visits to recruit companies to move to Texas are apoplectic over the thought that Perry could cut their funding as President-elect Trump’s Secretary of Energy.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott said the State of Texas intends to withdraw from the federal refugee resettlement program if additional security requirements are not met.
The glow of the Texas Governor’s Mansion bathed in blue light shined brightly to show support for not only the fallen officers in Dallas but all law enforcement officers in Texas.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott responded in the clearest way any Texan could to the ruling by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling that Americans don’t have the right to carry a concealed handgun. The governor invoked Texas’ original response to gun control activists, “Come and Take It.”
The official portrait unveiling for the longest serving governor in the Lone Star State, Rick Perry, was held at the Texas Capitol on Friday. The question asked most often in advance of the unveiling was whether the portrait would show the governor with or without his famous glasses.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott addressed a graduating class of 102 new Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) troopers Friday morning, calling them the “frontline of defense for our state and for our nation.”
A group of students in Texas are joining with other activists to protest Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s order to stop the state from participating in the resettlement of Syrian refugees.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced a new plan to strip state grant funding from county sheriffs with a Sanctuary City policy of not honoring ICE detainers. The move follows Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez’s order that criminal illegal aliens in her jail will be evaluated on a case by case basis to determine if ICE detainers will be enforced.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott admonished Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez over her recent decision to consider honoring immigration detainers on a “case-by-case” basis. The Governor said sanctuary city policies like this will “no longer be tolerated in Texas.”
Texas will receive more than $780 million from BP as part of a $20.2 billion settlement agreement with Gulf states in connection with the 2010 Deep Water Horizon oil spill. The settlement agreement follows a federal judge ruling that found BP at fault for gross negligence in the spill, which released nearly 134 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
AUSTIN, Texas — Governor Greg Abbott said the end of this legislative session brings many of his efforts over the past two years to reality. From the time he announced his candidacy for governor, Abbott has been building and working to implement a “Bicentennial Blueprint for Texas” which he said will mold the Lone Star State to being an even better place to live and work.
AUSTIN, Texas – For the first time since the first year of this century, Texas will have a new Governor. It has been over fourteen years since Governor Rick Perry First took the oath of office filling the vacancy created after Governor George W. Bush resigned the office to become the 43rd President of the United States. On Tuesday, Greg Abbott will take over the reins of the Lone Star State from Perry and begin a new era of leadership.
