Texas Supreme Court may call on Gov. Abbott and AG Paxton to release texts, emails
A roughly three-year legal process may result in the Texas Supreme Court calling on Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton to turn over their emails and text messages.  Earlier this week, ...
Woman who sued strip clubs for allegedly denying her work for being Black petitions Supreme Court
The Supreme Court is expected to decide Friday if it will hear a lawsuit alleging a former dancer was denied work because she ...
Texas judge clears way for anti-money laundering law's enforcement
A federal judge in Texas on Tuesday lifted an order that blocked the enforcement of an anti-money laundering law that forces ...
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Supreme Court to consider death row plea for DNA testing
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Feb. 24 in the case of a man on Texas death row who has long tried to obtain ...
L. Clifford Davis, who helped desegregate Texas schools, dies at 100
As a civil rights lawyer in the 1950s, L. Clifford Davis helped integrate Texas public schools that had resisted Brown v. Board of Education.
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Texas BACT Is a Fact: The Texas Supreme Court Unpacks the Texas Clean Air Act’s BACT Definition
Port Arthur Community Action Network (PACAN) v. Texas Commission on Environmental Quality et al. (Tex. Feb. 14, 2025) presented the Texas ...
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A history of birthright citizenship at the Supreme Court
This article was updated on Feb. 6 at 2:04 p.m. Shortly after being sworn into office on Jan. 20 for a second term, President ...
Rogers: Who’s cheatin' whom in Texas politics?
Since the Citizens United decision, politicians are less beholden to their constituents than to big donors and dark money.