AUSTIN –Attorney General Paxton filed a petition for review challenging the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) corporate average fuel economy standards (CAFE) for certain cars and light trucks. The regulation seeks to impose substantial increases in the number of electric vehicles on roads nationwide, with ramifications that will be felt throughout the automobile industry and our flailing economy generally. Ten other states have joined the petition. This challenge opposes the Biden Administration’s climate change agenda, contending that in promulgating the regulation NHTSA violated the express statutory prohibition on its mandating electric vehicles in setting the CAFE standards. The rule also implicates important state sovereignty interests. “At a […]
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Paxton Victorious Against Biden Administration: Court Tosses DHS Rule Letting Dangerous Criminal Aliens Off the Hook
AUSTIN – Last Friday, Texas Attorney General Paxton—in partnership with Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry—brought home yet another victory against the Biden Administration in federal court. In early 2021—and then again in late 2021—Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a rule purporting to give immigration law enforcement officials discretion over detaining certain classes of criminal illegal aliens. Not only was this bad policy, but bad law too: Federal law mandates detention of these […]
Biden Administration Announces $5.6 Million to Improve Rail Infrastructure, Enhance Safety, and Strengthen Supply Chain in Texas
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today announced $5.6 million in rail infrastructure funding for Texas. This funding is part of the Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements (CRISI) grant program. Nationally, the CRISI program awarded 46 projects in 32 states and the District of Columbia more than $368 million. These investments will play a crucial role in modernizing our country’s rail infrastructure and strengthening supply chains to reduce congestion and get people and […]
AG Paxton Brings 10th Border Crisis Lawsuit Against the Biden Administration
His Administration Cannot Unilaterally Rescind Title 42 and Open the Floodgates to Hundreds of Thousands More Illegal Aliens Attorney General Ken Paxton filed his 10th border crisis lawsuit against the Biden Administration—and the 26th overall against his lawless administration. Attorney General Paxton is challenging Biden’s unilateral rescission of Title 42, the highly effective Trump-era program that empowers federal authorities to rapidly expel aliens at the Texas-Mexico border. On April 1, Biden formally announced his plan […]
Paxton Sues Biden Over Unlawful Vaccine Mandate for Texas State Troops
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the Biden Administration over an unconstitutional vaccine mandate being imposed on the Texas Army National Guard and the Texas Air National Guard. Neither the President nor federal military officials can order the Governor of Texas and non-federalized National Guardsmen to comply with a vaccination mandate or to direct a particular disciplinary action for failure to comply. President Biden is not those troops’ commander-in-chief; Governor Abbott is. “This is one of the many examples of federal overreach by the […]