Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Sues Biden Depart­ment of Labor to Pre­vent Attempt to Grant For­eign Labor­ers More Rights than Amer­i­can Workers

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and a coalition of state attorneys general have sued the Biden Administration’s Department of Labor (“DOL”) over a new regulation that aims to override longstanding federal law and give foreign nationals working in American agriculture more rights than American citizens.

June 11, 2024 | Press Release

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Secures Major Win Block­ing Biden Administration’s Attempt to Force Trans­gen­der” Poli­cies Into Schools, Secur­ing Nation­wide Relief Against Unlaw­ful Agency Actions

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has won a major victory against the Biden Administration’s Department of Education (“DOE”), stopping its attempt to rewrite Title IX to force Texas schools to adopt radical “transgender” policies in violation of state and federal law.

June 11, 2024 | Press Release

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Leads Mul­ti­state Coali­tion Reach­ing Land­mark $700 Mil­lion Set­tle­ment Against John­son & John­son Over Mis­lead­ing Safe­ty Claims Regard­ing Its Talc-Based Baby Powder

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and 42 other attorneys general reached a $700 million nationwide settlement to resolve allegations related to the marketing of Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder and body powder products that contained talc. Texas, Florida, and North Carolina led an executive committee that included Arizona, Illinois, Ohio, Oregon, Maryland, New York, and Washington.

June 11, 2024 | Press Release

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Sues Biden’s Depart­ment of Health and Human Ser­vices to Stop Rule Forc­ing Health­care Providers to Per­form Gen­der Tran­si­tion” Procedures

Texas and Montana have sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, and other members of the Biden Administration for adopting a new rule that forces states to pay for “gender transition” procedures through their Medicaid programs and requires healthcare providers to perform these procedures even when doing so would violate state law.

June 11, 2024 | Press Release

State­ment from Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton on Bor­der Lit­i­ga­tion Against Biden Administration

Attorney General Ken Paxton released the following statement after today’s argument before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Texas’s concertina wire lawsuit against the federal government.

June 06, 2024 | Press Release

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Reminds Gov­ern­men­tal Enti­ties that Per­son­al­ly Iden­ti­fi­able Infor­ma­tion on Bal­lots Must Be Redacted

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has released a legal opinion reiterating that governmental entities have a legal duty to redact any personally identifying information on voters’ ballots when a Public Information Act request is made.

June 06, 2024 | Press Release

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Opens Inves­ti­ga­tion into Car Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ Col­lec­tion and Sale of Dri­vers’ Data

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has opened an investigation into several car manufacturers after widespread reporting that they have secretly been collecting mass amounts of data about drivers directly from their vehicles and then selling that data to third parties—including to insurance providers.

June 06, 2024 | Press Release

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Suc­cess­ful­ly Stops Unlaw­ful Attempt By The Biden IRS To Impair Texas Child Sup­port Programs

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has ended a lawsuit against the Biden Administration’s Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) after the agency walked back its planned enforcement of an unlawful policy change that would have drastically interfered with the operations and functionalities of Texas’s child support system.

June 04, 2024 | Press Release

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Sues Biden Depart­ment of Labor for Attempt­ing to Revive Ille­gal Oba­ma-Era Mandate

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued the United States Department of Labor ("DOL") to stop a final rule issued by the agency that violates the law and attempts to usurp authority not granted by Congress.

June 04, 2024 | Press Release

OAG Asks Texas Supreme Court to Review Polit­i­cal­ly Moti­vat­ed Law­fare Against Attor­ney Gen­er­al Pax­ton and OAG Leadership

The Office of the Attorney General (“OAG”) has filed a petition asking the Supreme Court of Texas to review a Fifth Court of Appeals ruling that has allowed politically motivated lawfare by the State Bar of Texas against the leadership of the OAG to continue.

June 04, 2024 | Press Release