AG Ken Paxton sues Dallas over decriminalizing four ounces of marijuana ... and more news

The Dallas Morning News

Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Dallas for the second time in three months, this time arguing the city is violating state law by enforcing a voter-approved charter amendment banning arrests for low-level marijuana offenses. The latest legal action follows suits Paxton filed in January against cities like Austin and Denton, where similar voter-supported mandates on weed passed. In other news, a jury ruled this week that a chain of health clinics knowingly filed more than 20,000 false Medicare claims from North Texas locations. And with statutory penalties attached to each individual claim, the clinic chain could be facing a total fine of more than $300 million; Derrick Morgan, executive vice president of The Heritage Foundation and a contributor to Project 2025, spoke at the University of Texas at Dallas on Wednesday morning at an event meant to unpack this year’s election; And license plate readers have spread rapidly to cities across the country, to help police solve crimes and locate missing people.

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