The president-elect’s appointment of three Supreme ... Sign up for Texas Standard’s weekly newsletters The pressure to retire ...

Today, Texas uses a hybrid model for death investigations with a mix of justices of the peace and medical examiners serving ...

Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Andrew Oldham and James Ho are viewed as likely members of Trump’s shortlist in the event of a ...

State lawmakers had stopped Robert Roberson’s execution at the last minute in an unusual legal maneuver.

The Texas Supreme Court is a civil court jurisdiction and does not rule on criminal cases. So Friday's ruling was only on the subpoena power of the legislature and does not address the merits of ...

More than before, progressives working to protect people’s rights will need state supreme courts to be hospitable to lawsuits ...

Control of the House is still unclear, but President-elect Donald J. Trump and the Republican Party, which has already won a ...

One of the candidates on the ballot this year is Democrat DaSean Jones who is running against Republican Jimmy Blacklock for Texas Supreme Court Place 2. In the November 2022 race for Harris County’s ...

One of the candidates on the ballot this year is Democrat DaSean Jones who is running against Republican Jimmy Blacklock for Texas Supreme Court Place 2. It’s far from Jones’ first race.

Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. Amy Clark Meachum defeated Jerry Zimmerer in the Democratic primary for Texas Supreme Court Place 1 Chief Justice on March 3, ...

Noting the size of the state’s Black population, civil rights advocates challenged the map in a Baton Rouge-based federal court and won a ruling from U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick that the districts ...

The Supreme Court in 2023 left Dick's ruling in place. In January, 12 Louisiana voters identifying themselves in court papers as "non-African American" sued to block the redrawn map in Louisiana. A ...