Eleanor Klibanoff

@texastribune covering law, courts and politics.
previously: abortion and women’s health.
all my exes not in Texas: @kentuckycir @pacrossroads @npr

[Eleanor Klibanoff @eklib]

I am honestly speechless to be named reporter of the year by Texas Managing Editors.

In a difficult year for media nationwide, it’s a privilege to be able to continue to do this work, one I don’t take lightly.

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[Eleanor Klibanoff @eklib]

Dr. McMurry passed in January. He was a lovely man and it’s wonderful to see him honored this way.
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[Eleanor Klibanoff @eklib]

INBOX: @GregAbbott_TX will be at the opening of the Dr. Ron A. McMurry Mediplex in Jasper, TX

In 2023, we wrote about Dr. McMurry and his often Sisphyean fight to deliver babies in East Texas - and later learned he was @HicklandHillary’s father!

[Eleanor Klibanoff @eklib]

NEW: After winning the most expensive attorney general primary in U.S. history, Mayes Middleton is taking a frugal approach to the general.

Other than forgiving his own $1m loan, he gave himself no addtl $ this period. Middleton has $2.1m cash; Democrat Nathan Johnson has $1m

[Eleanor Klibanoff @eklib]

On stage at #TribFest26, @GinaHinojosaTX announces a new ad featuring a “MAGA conservative” who was at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th and now plans to vote for Hinojosa over her opposition to school vouchers.

Hinojosa is running neck-and-neck with three-term Gov. Greg Abbott

[Eleanor Klibanoff @eklib]

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[Eleanor Klibanoff @eklib]

Remember all those press releases AG Ken Paxton put out during the Biden administration?

We tracked down the outcome and real world impact of all 109 lawsuits Texas filed. Paxton’s relentless Biden-bashing has become his sword and shield as he runs for U.S. Senate

[Eleanor Klibanoff @eklib]

@mayes_middleton is the GOP nominee for Texas attorney general, per AP. The Galveston state senator will face @NathanForTexas in November, for an agency that has become the linchpin in a national effort to push conservative causes through the courts

https://t.co/g1phYbsF9O

[Chip Roy @chiproytx]

Just a little while ago, I called and congratulated @mayes_middleton for his victory in our race for the Republican nominee for Attorney General. I will have a full statement tomorrow. Onward.

[Renzo Downey @RenzoDowney]

.@KenPaxtonTX in his #TXSEN victory speech: "We just sent a Texas-sized message to Washington."

[Eleanor Klibanoff @eklib]

“The last of the gentlemen Republicans”: John Cornyn’s four-decade political career ends with a MAGA uprising, by @kaylaguo_

https://t.co/HmkKQa0f5X

[Eleanor Klibanoff @eklib]

Dallas state Sen. @NathanForTexas is the Democratic nominee for Texas attorney general, per AP. No call yet on the GOP side, but Johnson’s Senate colleague, Mayes Middleton, running ahead of Congressman Chip Roy

[Patrick Svitek @PatrickSvitek]

Trump adviser Alex Bruesewitz is heading to Texas tomorrow to campaign for Mayes Middleton in his AG runoff against Chip Roy, per a source familiar.

Trump hasn’t endorsed, but some big Trump allies, including Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, are ramping up attacks on Roy as anti-MAGA.

[Jasper Scherer @jaspscherer]

Trump endorses Ken Paxton in Senate GOP runoff https://t.co/c4SubMnAwX via @birenbomb

[Kayla Guo @kaylaguo_]

Trump says Cornyn "is a good man, and I worked well with him, but he was not supportive of me when times were tough."

"John was very late in backing me in what turned out to be a Historic Run for the Republican Nomination, and then, the Presidency." #txsen

[Eleanor Klibanoff @eklib]

@TexasTribune @chiproytx @mayes_middleton has given himself another $2.5 million for the runoff, campaign finance reports show.

In a reversal from the primary, Roy has outraised Middleton during this period (even including Middleton’s self-funding) and is spending more on ads so far.

[Eleanor Klibanoff @eklib]

First in the @TexasTribune: Alex Fairly, the Amarillo GOP megadonor, has given @chiproytx $2.75 million, a much-needed shot in the arm for the home stretch of his attorney general runoff against Sen. Mayes Middleton

https://t.co/e4uAOHkjrD

[Jasper Scherer @jaspscherer]

Texas Supreme Court rejects Abbott’s request to remove Democratic Rep. Gene Wu from office over redistricting protest https://t.co/djmeAA79MM via @eklib & @kaylaguo_

[Renzo Downey @RenzoDowney]

President Trump nominates @GregAbbott_TX deputy chief of staff Angela Colmenero as a judge for the Southern District of Texas. #txlege

Colmenero served as interim attorney general while Ken Paxton was suspended during his impeachment trial.

[Eleanor Klibanoff @eklib]

Alito says his dog developed a mental illness and had to go to a specialty vet after moving to D.C.

“There is something in the atmosphere of the beltway that drives people crazy and Zeus is a case study proof of this.”

(That is the extent of the news from the speech.)

[Eleanor Klibanoff @eklib]

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, who most recently authored the Louisiana v. Callais decision, is at the Texas House of Representatives for the investiture of his former clerk, Texas Supreme Court Justice Kyle Hawkins, as well as Justice James Sullivan

[Eleanor Klibanoff @eklib]

side note, the House’s AV system is enjoying a well-earned interim break, this is the third mic Abbott has tried #txlege

[Eleanor Klibanoff @eklib]

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, who most recently authored the Louisiana v. Callais decision, is at the Texas House of Representatives for the investiture of his former clerk, Texas Supreme Court Justice Kyle Hawkins, as well as Justice James Sullivan