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The Texas attorney general has accepted a deal on temporary voting maps that could salvage the state's April 3 date for primary elections.

Attorney General Greg Abbott said Monday that seven minority groups agreed to a plan that minimizes changes to the original redistricting maps drafted by the GOP-controlled Legislature.

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A Williamson County grand jury has indicted Mark Alan Norwood for the 1986 murder of Christine Morton.

The Christine Morton case is well known because her husband spent 25 years in prison for her murder until DNA evidence exonerated him last year.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott says the indictment against Norwood could be a big step toward answering unresolved questions for Morton's family.

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The Texas attorney general announced Monday that the state of Texas filed suit in federal court for approval of its controversial voter ID law passed last spring.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 requires Texas to receive preclearance from the Department of Justice before implementing any laws that could affect voter participation.

The law, which would require voters to present a government-issued photo ID at the polls, was supposed to take effect Jan. 1 but has been under review since July.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is asking a federal court to clear the way for the state's Voter ID law after the Department of Justice failed to clear it.

In a court case filed Monday, Abbott said the Obama administration was hostile to laws like the one passed last year in Texas, which requires voters to show a photo identification card in order to vote.

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From porn peddlers to district meddlers, the following quotes are among the best from the last few weeks.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott fired another salvo on Monday in the ongoing duel between Texas legislators and federal judges over the set of newly drawn political district maps.

The redistricting process, which generally occurs every 10 years to reflect population changes reported by the decennial U.S. census, is often contentious and always politically charged.

The ongoing battle between the state government and the Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") continued yesterday when Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott filed four new motions against the EPA.

We couldn’t make this stuff up…

Texas Attorney General Gregg Abbott today played host to his Virginia counterpart, Bob McDonnell, during a fundraising reception at the Austin Club, where the two dragged the sack for McDonnell’s long-shot gubernatorial bid.

Lobbyists around town had been receiving phone calls from Abbott’s 20-something chief of staff in recent days, wondering why they were being encouraged to write corporate checks, a no-no in Texas but perfectly legal in the Commonwealth.

Decatur lawyer Barry Wise points out that because Section 38.23 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure provides additional prophylactic protections to accused citizens the Virginia v.

Moore decision doesn’t have any real impact in Texas. Mark Bennett wonders why then did the Texas Attorney General even bother to weigh in on the amicus brief.

Good question.