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  2. Legal status of Texas - Wikipedia

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    United States Army, First Battalion, First Infantry Regiment soldiers in Texas in 1861. The legal status of Texas is the standing of Texas as a political entity. While Texas has been part of various political entities throughout its history, including 10 years during 1836–1846 as the independent Republic of Texas, the current legal status is as a state of the United States of America.

  3. Medellín v. Texas - Wikipedia

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    Medellín v. Texas, 552 U.S. 491 (2008), was a decision of the United States Supreme Court that held even when a treaty constitutes an international commitment, it is not binding domestic law unless it has been implemented by an act of the U.S. Congress or contains language expressing that it is "self-executing" upon ratification. [1]

  4. Texas secession movements - Wikipedia

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    The state's growing abolitionist Black and Hispanic populations led Texas to declare independence from the United States during the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson, starting a fifteen-year-long 'Texas War' ending in stalemate. The status of Texas as either a US state or an independent republic remained ambiguous thereafter.

  5. Texas Independence Referendum Act - Wikipedia

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    In December 2020, when the Supreme Court refused to hear Texas' lawsuit in Texas v. Pennsylvania, the chair of the Texas GOP, Allen West, suggested that Texas and other like-minded states could leave the Union. [4] [5] [6] In 2022, the Republican Party of Texas added a statement in its party platform that called for a referendum over secession ...

  6. United States v. Texas (2023) - Wikipedia

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    The act was widely expected to reduce the number of deportations by the agency. Texas filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas soon after, and Judge Drew B. Tipton issued a temporary restraining order. The state soon dismissed the lawsuit, but filed a new suit with Louisiana in April 2021 after the ...

  7. Texas sues Biden administration over lizard's endangered ...

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    The Railroad Commission of Texas, which regulates the state's oil and gas industry, asked Paxton in June to challenge the lizard's endangered status, calling the listing "nothing more than a ...

  8. Sovereignty Act - Wikipedia

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    The Sovereignty Act or the Absolute and Hereditary Monarchy Act (Danish: Suverænitetsakten or Enevoldsarveregeringsakten; Norwegian: Enevoldsarveregjeringsakten or sometimes Suverenitetsakten) refers to two similar constitutional acts that introduced absolute and hereditary monarchy in the Kingdom of Denmark and absolute monarchy in the ...

  9. Texas Supreme Court rebuffs Travis County GOP's emergency ...

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    The Texas Supreme Court on Monday rebuffed an emergency appeal from the Travis County Republican Party that sought to address a purported “severe deficiency” of GOP poll workers in Travis County.