Greg Abbott - report

American attorney & politician (born 1957)

Gregory Wayne Abbott is an American politician, attorney, and former jurist serving as the 48th governor of Texas since 2015. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 50th attorney general of Texas from 2002 to 2015 and as a member of the Texas Supreme Court from 1996 to 2001.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Abbott

2022 2023 2024

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Significant news events for Greg Abbott

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Judge Lee Yeakel of U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas ruled the governor's order violated the Americans with Disabilities Act. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said he "strongly disagreed" with the ruling.
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White House says Texas, Florida governors have put politics over fighting pandemic. Jen Psaki says Gov. Greg Abbott banned vaccine mandates because of 'politics' says White House will STILL force rules on businesses. Comes just a month after president urged businesses to order their workers to be vaccinated against the virus. Fourteen workers were fired after refusing to get jabbed.
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday. The Republican leader is fully vaccinated and was asymptomatic after testing positive.
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) issued an Executive Order on Wednesday, directing the Texas Department of Public Safety to stop'migrants who pose a risk of carrying COVID-19 into Texas communities' US Attorney General Merrick Garland (D), who heads the DoJ, issued a memo to Abbott on Thursday, warning the Texas Governor that he must "immediately rescind" his "dangerous and unlawful" EO. Garland said Abbott’s order cannot be lawfully enforced.
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More than 50 state House Democrats in Texas fled the state on Monday night in order to deny Republicans a quorum to advance a new bill on voting restrictions. At least 58 Democrats left Austin to avoid the vote on election bills, touching down in Washington D.C. on Monday evening in two private jets - chartered at a cost of $100,000. They have fled to prevent a vote on two bills which would add new identification requirements for mail voting; ban some early voting options; and create new criminal penalties for breaking election code.
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott threatens to defund his state's legislature. Democrats walked out of the House, leaving the bill languishing ahead of a midnight deadline. Measure would allow people to carry handguns in public without a license, background check or training.
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Texas' top doctors warned that Gov. Greg Abbott’s sudden decision to ditch the mask mandate and lift coronavirus restrictions could result in a new surge of Covid-19 infections and deaths. “I just think it's time for individual responsibility as opposed to government oversight,” San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg says. The governor's executive order will take effect on March 10, also lifts capacity restrictions imposed on the state's businesses.
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott blamed the state's renewable solar energy, which froze up in the cold weather. Abbott and former Gov. Perry misleadingly argued the Green New Deal would cause future energy crises. The retort came as three million Texans were still without power supplies on Wednesday.
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott blamed the state's power grid's failure on frozen wind turbines. His claims were contradicted by his own energy department, which blamed failures to winterize the power-generating systems. Wind accounts for just 10 percent of the power in Texas generated during the winter.