(The Center Square) – The Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday issued an administrative stay to temporarily block Harris County’s “Uplift Harris” guaranteed income pilot program from going into effect, granting a request filed earlier in the day by Attorney General Ken Paxton. This is after two lower courts, the 165th District Court and the 14th Court of Appeals, denied his request for a temporary injunction, ruling in favor of Harris County in a lawsuit Paxton filed to stop it from...
House Bill 900 requires books sold in the state be rated for sexual content by the book seller, similar to how Hollywood rates movies.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is challenging the program, saying it violates the Texas Constitution.
Last week a judge denied Paxton's claim that Uplift Harris violated the Texas Constitution. He appealed that decision and it was denied on Monday.
The county’s guaranteed income pilot program was designed provide $500 monthly subsidies for more than 1,900 low-income households for 18 months. The first payments, set to go out Wednesday, are now on indefinite hold.
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A federal appeals court has declined to consider overturning its January ruling that blocked Texas from enforcing a Republican-championed law that would force booksellers to rate books for sexual content if they plan to sell to school libraries, Reuters reports. Tuesday's move by New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is a victory for booksellers and First Amendment champions, who argued Texas' so-called READER Act violated constitutional protections for free speech....
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to block Texas' Republican-championed law requiring porn websites to verify the age of their users, the Associated Press reports. Adult-entertainment industry trade group the Free Speech Coalition filed an emergency appeal asking the high court put Texas House Bill 1181 on hold while the justices weigh whether to hear a full appeal of the court dispute over the law. Last year, a federal judge blocked HB 1181’s age-verification requirement,...
The Supreme Court of Texas issued a ruling Tuesday that prohibits Harris County from launching a guaranteed income program which is currently being disputed by Attorney General Ken Paxton. The decision comes just days after Houston County Judge Ursula Hall struck down Paxton’s arguments that the Uplift Harris program, which distributes monthly stipends to over 1,900 low-income residents, is unconstitutional. "If the program does include a public benefit, it does not violate the constitution,"...
A disturbing report from the Children’s Advocacy Institute at the University of San Diego School of Law indicates that nearly all states routinely take federal benefits from children in the foster system and use those benefits to offset the cost of foster care.Like their counterparts who are not in the foster care system, some foster kids are entitled to receive federal money, including disability benefits associated with Social Security as well as survivor benefits associated with the Veterans'...