Backing Texas in the dispute is a group of 24 states, officials from which are urging the Supreme Court to uphold the lower court's decision. The states wrote in a friend-of-the-court brief that age-verification laws are a routine exercise of their authority to protect children from being...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday was divided over a challenge to a Texas law that requires pornography sites to verify the age of their users before providing access. Last year a federal appeals court in New Orleans allowed the state to enforce the law, holding that it was rationally related ...
CBS News Texas political reporter Jack Fink discusses the Texas Supreme Court's unanimous ruling in favor of the State Fair of Texas, allowing it to enforce its ban on guns for most people. The decision came after the Texas Attorney General’s Offic
Supreme Court on Monday revived a civil rights lawsuit filed by a convicted murderer in Texas against a prison guard accused of using pepper spray against him in an unprovoked attack in violation of the constitutional prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. The justices t...
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Chris Marchese, counsel at NetChoice, which brought the case on behalf of social media platforms, said in a statement: “Texas’s Hb 20 is a constitutional trainwreck — or, as the district court put it, an example of ‘burning the house to roast the pig.’ We are relieved that the ...
WASHINGTON-Texas on Thursday urged the Supreme Court to leave in place its law banning most abortions and told the justices there's no reason to rush into the case. The state filed its response Thursday to the Biden administration's call on the high court to block the law, the most restri...
The Supreme Court is seen in Washington, June 30, 2021. The Supreme Court late Wednesday denied an emergency request to block Texas' ban on abortions performed after six weeks of pregnancy, upholding for now one of the most restrictive measures on access to the procedure that took effect earli...
AUSTIN –The Texas Supreme Court upheld the state's ban on gender-affirming care for minors, rejecting pleas from parents that it violates their right to seek medical care for their transgender children. The 8-1 ruling from the all-Republican court, released Friday, leaves in place a law tha...