U.S. Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in United States v. Zackey Rahimi, which says banning subjects of protective orders from having firearms is unconstitutional.

The cancellation of up to $20,000 of debt would have benefited millions of Texans.

No other public universities use race as a factor, but Texas private schools like Rice and Southern Methodist University will be impacted.

The court’s ruling will change admissions practices at the University of Texas at Austin, the state’s only large public university that considers race, and some private universities.

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.

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.

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.

Thursday’s 5-4 decision could signal support for future challenges based on a provision of the federal Voting Rights Act.

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.

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.

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.