Daily Dispatch 12/8/23: Judge Grants Abortion While Paxton Threatens Doctors, and More

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:

Dallas-area mother of two Kate Cox is granted a temporary restraining order allowing her to terminate a dangerous and hopeless pregnancy: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-abortion-ban-kate-cox-emergency-fetus-trisomy-18-judge-maya-guerra-gamble/

...While Attorney General Ken Paxton threatens legal action against any doctor who provides abortion services in Texas: https://www.reuters.com/legal/texas-judge-allows-woman-get-emergency-abortion-despite-state-ban-2023-12-07/

...Which we agree, is "ghoulish": https://newrepublic.com/post/177398/texass-attorney-general-ghoulish-new-abortion-stance

Meanwhile, Paxton is failing to fully disclose his extensive real estate holdings in financial disclosure reports: https://www.kut.org/politics/2023-12-07/ken-paxton-texas-attorney-general-personal-finance-reports

Texas DPS's own inspector general concludes that while troopers did indeed mistreat migrants at the border as reported, those incidents didn't violate the law or agency policy: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/dps-migrant-report-18539662.php

Pale Horse Strategies, the consulting firm that started the Texas GOP's Nazi scandal, is undergoing a rebranding: https://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/07/pale-horse-strategies-west-fort-worth-management-nick-fuentes/

ERCOT says they're ready for winter - experts aren't so sure: https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2023-12-08/how-ercot-and-the-city-are-preparing-for-the-next-winter-storm/

Let's Get Busy Houston! The runoff election for mayor, city controller, and several at-large City Council seats is Saturday: https://www.axios.com/local/houston/2023/12/08/election-runoff-jackson-lee-whitmire

Our annual Ten Best And Worst Texans ranking is up - and THANKS for your input: https://progresstexas.org/blog/top-10-best-and-worst-texans-2023

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