Alex Nguyen

The Austin lawmaker, first elected in 2004, chaired the influential House Foreign Affairs and Homeland Security committees. He is the second Texas Republican this week to bow out of Congress.

Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, said Texas has no authority to “impose its cruel abortion ban here.”

Legislators couldn’t reach a last-minute deal to tighten regulations on consumable hemp products.

House Bill 26 advanced out of the Texas Legislature on Wednesday evening, two days after being added to the second special session’s agenda.

The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals found that the state’s voter ID requirements for mail-in ballots do not violate the Civil Rights Act.