In a statement by the Texas Attorney General,Ken Paxton, he showed his support for the Supreme Court ruling. “Today, the Supreme Court of Texas unanimously upheld the Human Life Protection Act, one of our state’s pro-life laws,” said Paxton. “I will continue to defend ...
SUPREME COURT RULING ; University of Texas Clear to Consider Race in AdmissionsWASHINGTON - In a narrow victory for affirmative action, theSupreme Court on Thursday upheld a...Sherman, Mark
The Supreme Court ruling noted that the Texas governor and Legislature have expressed a desire to hear testimony from the witnesses prior to agreeing to appropriate funds to settle the lawsuit. The court said forcing Paxton, First Assistant Attorney General Brent Webster,...
Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider the case in light of their ruling last November in another case also involving a claim arising from the U.S. Constitution's Eighth Amendment bar on cruel and unusual punishment. In that ruling, the justices let another Texas inmate ...
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In a brief, five-sentence ruling, the Supreme Court has blocked a Texas law that was forcing many abortion providers to close. “Tomorrow, 13 clinics across the state will be allowed to reopen and provide women with safe and legal abortion care in their own communities,” Nancy Northup, ...
“A pregnant woman does not need a court order to have a lifesaving abortion in Texas,” the ruling read. “Our ruling today does not block a life-saving abortion in this very case if a physician determines that one is needed under the appropriate legal standard, using reasonable medical ...
The Supreme Court’s bombshell 5 to 4 ruling this month on Texas’s new abortion restrictions law was both an end and a beginning. It put an end to the hopes of abortion rights activists who wanted to overturn this law before it took effect, but it also marked the beginning of a frenz...
Although the Supreme Court avoided ruling on the legality of the social media laws, the majority opinion criticized the Texas legislation. The Texas law “is unlikely to withstand First Amendment scrutiny,” the majority opinion stated. “This Court has many times held, in many contexts, that ...
Hundreds of activists on both sides of the debate gathered outside the Supreme Court in anticipation of the ruling. Today is the last day that the court will issue decisions for this term, which began in October. Texas has defended the restrictions, and the number of clinics providing abortion...