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, the ...
Can Texas courts force Attorney General Ken Paxton to release public records?
Opposing counsel told the state Supreme Court the government is seeking to rewrite the law on obtaining public information.
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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 death row inmate Robert Roberson files appeal for new trial
Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson has filed an appeal for a new trial. Roberson was convicted of murdering his ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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.