Texas executes Steven Nelson, convicted for a pastor's 2011 murder, amidst debates on capital punishment ethics.

The Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon agreed to pause the briefing in a challenge to a Biden-era rule intended to streamline the process for reviewing requests for student loan forgiveness from ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson was condemned for the 2011 killing of the Rev. Clint Dobson at a Baptist church in Arlington. Dobson’s ...

The State of Texas executed a Black man convicted of killing a pastor during a robbery in 2011, despite his claims that while ...

Trump's Justice Dept. may drop the U.S. challenge to SB 4, but other plaintiffs have vowed to push forward against Texas' ...

The chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court urged the state legislature to raise salaries for judges across the state.

Sen. Joan Huffman has filed a bill that proposes to raise the state's base salary for judges from $140,000 to $161,000 — a ...

Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to ...

The harder Texas has worked to ban abortion ... rules for abortion clinics and physicians. But the five state Supreme Court justices—three of whom are women and all of whom are Democrats ...

Will Texas’ contempt for pornography lead the Supreme Court to curb constitutional rights ... The justices are considering a state law that Texas lawyers say is meant to protect children ...

In the 1960s and early 1970s, the Supreme Court hosted ... ultimately sides with Texas on all points and reduces First Amendment protections for sexual content, red-state lawmakers could seek ...