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David Gouverneur Burnet (April 14, 1788 – December 5, 1870) was an early politician within the Republic of Texas, serving as the interim president of Texas in 1836, the second vice president of the Republic of Texas (1839–1841), and the secretary of state (1846) for the new state of Texas after it was annexed to the United States.. Burnet was born in Newark, New Jersey, [1] [2] and ...
Texas State Treasurer was an elected constitutional officer in the executive branch of the state government of Texas, responsible for overseeing the financial operations of state government. The position was established in the Constitution of 1876. It was officially abolished on August 31, 1996.
Torres v. Texas Department of Public Safety, 597 U.S. 580 (2022), was a United States Supreme Court case dealing with the Uniformed Services Employment and Re-employment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA) and state sovereign immunity.In a 5–4 decision issued in June 2022, the Court ruled that state sovereign immunity does not prevent states from being sued under federal law related to the nation's ...
13 lis 2023 · On January 22, 2021, Texas sued the United States and Acting Secretary Pekoske in the Southern District of Texas. 14 Arguing the new guidelines violated its agreement with DHS, Texas carefully grounded its claim in “budgetary harms, including higher education and healthcare costs.” 15 Based on these alleged costs, the district court ...
United States v. Texas, 599 U.S. 670 (2023), was a United States Supreme Court case related to federal immigration law.
The case involved a claim by the Reconstruction government of Texas that United States bonds owned by Texas since 1850 had been illegally sold by the Confederate state legislature during the American Civil War.
1 lip 1995 · In November 1995 Texas voters approved a constitutional amendment to abolish the office of the state treasurer, effective August 31, 1996. The office of Comptroller of Public Accounts assumed the functions of the State Treasury Department.
