WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that longtime Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed should have a chance to argue for testing of crime-scene evidence that he says will help clear him. The justices, in a 6-3 decision, sent Reed's case back to a lower ...
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Monday extended its block on a Texas law that would give police broad powers to arrest migrants suspected of illegally entering the U.S. while the legal battle it sparked over immigration authority plays out. Opponents have called the law, kno...
A New York judge on Monday rejected President-elect Donald Trump's request to throw out his conviction in the criminal "hush money" case. Judge Juan Merchan said in a filing that the Supreme Court's ruling giving presidents immunity from prosecution over official acts does not apply to the ...
The Supreme Court issued its most important abortion decision inmore than two decades Monday,...Gass, Henry
"(T)his order is not based on any conclusion about the constitutionality of Texas's law, and in no way limits other procedurally proper challenges to the Texas law, including in Texas state courts," the majority added. Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court's three liberal justices –...
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 fre...
A lower court ruling last year had barred the federal government from removing the razor wire that National Guard soldiers deployed by Gov. Greg Abbott assembled on the banks of the Rio Grande, near the Texas border town of Eagle Pass, a busy sector for illegal crossings. ...
Samuel Alito's dissent, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Clarence Thomas, focused on what he viewed as the majority's flagrant disregard of procedural rules that might have barred the court from ruling on the case and voiding the Texas laws in their entirety. In his own dissent, Tho...
TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION STATEMENT ON U.S. SUPREME COURT RULING IN OBERGEFELL ET AL. v. HODGES, DIRECTOR, OHIO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, ET AL.THOMAS LINDSAY
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 p...