On Friday, a Texas judge temporarily blocked the state from investigating parents of “transgender” children for child abuse. ABC News reported that the temporary restraining order was issued by District Judge Jan
So how much do you know about Nate Paul?
The two of us asked each other this question back in the summer of 2019, when Nate Paul s spots got raided by the FBI. Over the years, we d both acquired some knowledge about Paul and his World Class property empire that we hadn t seen in other coverage, enough to know that something about the story was really odd – his coming out of nowhere to acquire a set of high-visibility properties all over town, without evident plans to do anything with these assets, and then running into heavy financial weather almost immediately. Ken Paxton is now nearly a household name across America – the ostensibly Christ-centered heir to the legal activism of his predecessors John Cornyn and Greg Abbott, always at the front lines of culture-war clashes, and in 2020 devoted to raising up Donald Trump and slapping down Texas and especially Austin Democrats in equal measure.
A drawn-out struggle to write new rules that govern land use in Austin ended 2020 the same way it began: with a power-shifting victory for property owners who are resistant to multi-family homes popping up in their single-family neighborhoods.
A pair of game-changing events - a court judgement against the city in March and an upset in the City Council runoff election in December - have made it so that neither side in a multi-year fight on the City Council has much of an upper hand right now. That rebalance of power could lead to negotiations heating back up and the council hammering out an agreement in 2021.