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HOUSTON — A federal court issued a temporary restraining order against the City of Houston today in an ongoing lawsuit challenging two city ordinances that target the homeless.
AUSTIN — Yesterday the Texas legislature ended its special session after having passed nine of the 20 items requested by Gov. Greg Abbott when he called the session.
Like all people who believe in our democratic values of equality and justice, we are outraged by the white supremacist terrorist attack in Charlottesville last weekend.
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AUSTIN — Yesterday the U.S. District Court in Austin rejected the State of Texas’s extraordinary attempt to have SB 4, the law banning so-called sanctuary cities, declared constitutional before it takes effect.
HOUSTON — The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, along with affiliates in 9 other states and the national ACLU, filed open records requests today demanding copies of any communications between the Texas Office of the Attorney General and the federal government regarding the Deferred Action