Gregory Wayne Abbott (born November 13, 1957) is an American attorney who has served as the 48th governor of Texas since January 20, 2015. A member of the Republican Party, Abbott previously served as the 50th attorney general of Texas from 2002 to 2015. He is the third governor of any U.S. state to permanently use a wheelchair. He is also the first disabled governor in Texas history.
While Equality Texas and Lambda Legal wait for a ruling from Judge Amy Meachum in Travis County’s 201st District Court on the restraining order the organizations asked for in their lawsuit filed today (Wednesday, March 2) against Gov.
Greg Abbott’s and his directive to the Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate the families of transgender youth for abuse, Judge Madeleine Connor in Travis County’s 353rd District court has granted a temporary restraining order blocking DFPS from investigating the plaintiffs in the lawsuit ACLU of Texas, ACLU and Lambda Legal filed on Tuesday, March 1. Judge Connor’s order stops DFPS from investigating the parents named in the lawsuit filed Tuesday because they are working with medical professionals to provide their adolescent child with medically necessary treatment.
Her order limited the temporary restraining order to the plaintiffs in that case for now, but the judge has scheduled a hearing for 10 a.m.
on Friday, March 11, decide whether to block the governor, commissioner, and DFPS’s actions more broadly. The ACLU case, Doe v.