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, ...
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...
The Texas Supreme Court has overturned a lower court ruling that state Attorney General Ken Paxton testify in a whistleblower lawsuit at the heart of impeachment charges brought against him in 2023 FILE - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks at a news conference ...
Supreme Court settled at least temporarily a dispute in Texas over redistricting by ordering that new maps be drawn for an April 2012 primary in that state, a development seen as favorable to Republicans.Wall Street Journal - Eastern Edition...
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 ...
Texas and other Republican-controlled states have successfully convinced judges todelay the terminationof Title 42 border restrictions andreinstatea policy that required asylum-seekers to await their U.S. court hearings in Mexico. The states have also secured rulings that blocked a proposed100-day mo...
Supreme Court allowed its enforcement. The Supreme Court’s divided decision to allow Texas to assume border security duties marked a significant win for the state's efforts to control illegal immigration from Mexico. It was short-lived, however, as hours later, the 5th...
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...
The tactics worked: Even before the Texas Supreme Court issued its ruling, Cox left the state rather than leave her life and her fertility at the mercy of the Texas court system. Of course, her departure and the latest ruling came well after Paxton had already seized the opportunity toremi...
’s 5-4 order didn’t give any reason and didn’t explicitly say Border Patrol agents were allowed to access the park or that the state had to remove the concertina wire. So the state has doubled down and some Republican lawmakers have said Texas should defy the Supreme C...