Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton wants the federal government to share the citizenship status of registered voters whom the state cannot verify eligibility to vote, saying the immigration policies

Two Texas officials were sued this week after they were accused of violating the National Voter Registration Act. On Wednesday, officials in Travis County, Texas, filed lawsuits against the state's Attorney General Ken Paxton and Secretary of State Jane Nelson over alleged attempts to block voter registration efforts ahead of the November presidential election.

Attorney General Ken Paxton and Secretary of State Jane Nelson are targeted in the new suit, escalating a pre-election war over voter registration efforts.

The fight over voter registration in Texas Democratic-leaning cities is heating up. In Tuesday, Travis County sued Texas state officials — including right-wing Attorney General Ken Paxton — over his repeated attempts to block the state’s urban counties from registering voters by mail.

Jolt, which advocates for more Latino voting participation, says the attorney general’s probe has spurred threatening comments online.

A Texas district court judge on Monday denied a request by Attorney General Ken Paxton to block a Bexar County plan to mail voter registration forms to county residents ahead of the November election,

In a sweeping round of legal action Tuesday morning, county officials sideswiped a lawsuit Paxton filed in a state District Court seeking to halt voter registration efforts in Travis County by filing a "notice of removal" in federal court,

Jolt Initiative said the Texas Attorney General pushed them to provide private voter information. TEXAS, USA — A Texas-based nonprofit is suing state Attorney General Ken Paxton after they say he demanded private voter records in August.

Travis County leaders filed on Tuesday a federal complaint against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, arguing his lawsuit attempted to violate the National Voter Registration Act and suppress voter registration efforts.

Travis County leaders are defending their efforts to register residents to vote after Attorney General Ken Paxton sued them. The AG is accusing them of spending public funds on a partisan voter registration company.

Paxton requested to block a plan from Bexar county to mail registration applications with an outside vendor. The request was moot, according to the judge.