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The case concerned the administration's effort to set guidelines for whom immigration authorities can target for arrest and deportation. Texas and Louisiana had sued to block the guidelines.
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Roe v. Wade protected abortion rights for all Americans — until the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health. Now Texans travel far for abortions.
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The case pitted prospective adoptive parents and Texas against the act, a federal law aimed at preventing Native American children from being separated from their extended families and their tribes.
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Thursday’s 5-4 decision could signal support for future challenges based on a provision of the federal Voting Rights Act.
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The Supreme Court has left the case in the hands of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which has scheduled oral arguments in the case for May 17.
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The lower courts ruled the death row inmate waited too long to challenge the state’s DNA procedures, but the Supreme Court disagreed. Now, he can go to a federal court to make his claim.
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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has placed a hold on a lower court ruling that restricts access to the abortion drug mifepristone until Wednesday night.
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The transaction is the first known instance of money flowing from Crow to the Supreme Court justice. The sale netted the GOP megadonor two vacant lots and the house where Thomas’ mother was living.
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In a new book, University of North Texas professor Wesley Phelps explores the history of legal challenges to Texas’ sodomy laws, and introduces readers to the activists who made those challenges possible.
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Though he confessed to the murders, Balentine’s lawyers argue he might have been spared a death sentence if not for pervasive racial bias at his trial.
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Pandemic border restrictions known as Title 42 will continue, at least for now, after the Supreme Court granted a stay to Republican state attorneys general as many migrants wait to cross the border.
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The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a case with origins in North Texas. The court’s eventual decision could chip away at the sovereignty of Native American tribes.