In an opinion released on June 27 and written by the Trump-appointed Justice Neil Gorsuch, the Supreme Court used a case about a Washington high school football coach to effectively neuter a section of the First Amendment and open the door to legislative religious...
On Friday the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark case that guaranteed federal protections for an abortion. In Texas, abortion will soon become illegal in due to the state’s “trigger law.” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has said the trigger law...
On Monday, by a 6-3 vote, the conservative majority United States Supreme Court voted to strike down a federal law capping the number of campaign dollars a candidate could repay themselves with post-election contributions. The vote sides in favor of Texas Republican...
The Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, according to a leaked initial draft of the ruling obtained by Politico. In Texas, where a trigger law is set in place for the very day that happens, abortion would become illegal. House Bill 1280 would...
403 years after the first enslaved people stepped foot on American soil, the United States has officially nominated the first Black female justice to the Supreme Court. Now Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson represents not only a minority female breaking out of...
On the second day of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearing to the Supreme Court, the esteemed jurist got a double whammy of questioning from the two senators from Texas that sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Neither John Cornyn nor Ted Cruz had the...
As the United States Supreme Court heard arguments on Texas’ six-week abortion ban on Monday, the court continuously referenced Ex Parte Young: a 1908 case where the court initially held that after attempting to enforce an unconstitutional law, state officials are not...
On Tuesday, Sen. Ted Cuz blocked a resolution in the U.S. Senate honoring the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The bipartisan resolution to commemorate Ginsberg was amended by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to include her last dying wish, that her...
With less than fifty days until Election Day, Sen. John Cornyn is signaling his intent to quickly fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who passed away over the weekend. It marks a change in Cornyn’s position from 2016 when he was...