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County commissioner can simultaneously serve as GM of water authority, Texas AG opines

By Staff reports | Tuesday, Jun 7, 2022 @ 11:46am

AUSTIN - A court would likely conclude that the common-law incompatibility doctrine does not bar a Nueces County commissioner from simultaneously serving as the general manager of the South Texas Water Authority, states an opinion released by Attorney General Ken Paxton yesterday.
Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee wins court order temporarily banning enforcement of part of Texas voting law

By Staff reports | Tuesday, Feb 15, 2022 @ 9:47am

HOUSTON — On Friday, a federal court in Texas issued a preliminary injunction in Longoria v. Paxton, a lawsuit in which Harris County Elections Administrator Isabel Longoria sued Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and other officials over the provision in Texas’s new voting law (SB1) that make it a crime for public officials or election officials to solicit people to apply to vote by mail, a press release states.

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