The Texas Court of Criminal Appealsis the state’s highest court for criminal cases. It reviews appeals from lower courts in serious criminal matters, including death penalty cases. Unlike the Texas Supreme Court, which handles civil cases, this court focuses solely on interpreting criminal ...
Two African-American death row inmates will have their casesreviewed by the Supreme Court later...Thompson, Ben
Registered votersin the states holding presidential nominating contests willgo to the polls and vote on March 5. Fifteen states are holding GOP contests on Super Tuesday. Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont and ...
According toWashington Monthly, an 1868 textbook by Supreme Court Associate Justice Joseph Story on the Constitution says a presidential pardon can be revoked if the president was impeached. In recent history, both Clinton and Trump have been impeached — although their pardons did stand after thei...
GOP Gov. Greg Abbott on June 2, 2023,signeda bill banning gender-affirming care for minors in Texas. Thelawcontains exceptions similar to other states’ efforts at restricting transition care. The Texas Supreme Court on Aug. 31, 2023,allowedthe law to go into effect on ...
The California Supreme Court has held that plaintiffs in this situation can still make use of res ipsa loquitur: Since all members of a surgical team share control for a patient’s well-being, the burden is on them rather than the plaintiff to explain what went wrong. This prevents the si...
Johnson get to the Supreme Court? Who was Johnson's lawyer in Texas v. Johnson? When did the sentencing take place for the Texas v. Johnson case? Is Texas v. Johnson an example of judicial restraint? What courts have the judicial power in Texas? What did Texas v. Johnson establish?
Harvard and UNC. Both of these cases were spearheaded by Edward Blum, a conservative legal activist who opposes the consideration of race and ethnicity in the U.S. and who helped bring a similar challenge to the Supreme Court in 2016 in Fisher v. University of Texas, which was u...
Project Texas would essentially act as a firewall, ensuring that the Chinese government couldn't access U.S. user data and that Oracle would oversee it all. "The way we’ve built this plan, and the level of external oversight, is really meant to make it so that you don’t have to ...
Texas Supreme Court Place 6 Democrat: Bonnie Lee Goldstein, Joe Pool Republican: Jane Bland (Incumbent) Texas Court Of Criminal Appeals The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals is the state's highest criminal court. Nine members, currently all Republican, are elected statewide. ...