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Texas legislators seek more protections for death penalty defendants in wake of Trump executive order
Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to ...
Arrington joins Cruz in advocating against nuclear waste facility in West Texas to SCOTUS
U.S. Rep. Jodey Arrington has joined U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz in advocating against a nuclear waste storage facility in Andrews ...
Texas Has a Perverse Idea of Religious Freedom
MAGA’s cruelty toward immigrants and its disregard for civil liberties are on full display in the Lone Star State.
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Catholic Annunciation House Defends Against ‘Alien Harboring’ Claim at Texas Supreme Court
Annunciation House, which has operated along the southern U.S. border for nearly 50 years, asked the Texas Supreme Court on Jan. 13 to block Attorney General Ken Paxton’s effort to shut down the ...
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U.S. Supreme Court weighing constitutionality of Texas’ age-verification requirement for porn sites
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared conflicted over whether a Texas law regulating adult entertainment websites ... State lawmakers passed House Bill 1181 in 2023 as part of a broader push to ...
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Supreme Court hears arguments on Texas' age-verification law for pornography sites
House Bill 1181 was signed by Gov ... on X that appeared to show him addressing the media outside of the Supreme Court Building. "TODAY: Attorney General Ken Paxton defended a Texas law that protects ...
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U.S. Supreme Court weighing constitutionality of Texas’ age-verification requirement for porn sites
The Supreme Court’s decision on Texas’ law, which adult entertainment ... State lawmakers passed House Bill 1181 in 2023 as part of a broader push to prevent children from being exposed ...
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Supreme Court hears arguments on Texas' age-verification law for pornography sites
House Bill 1181 was signed ... show him addressing the media outside of the Supreme Court Building. "TODAY: Attorney General Ken Paxton defended a Texas law that protects children by requiring ...
Cruz spearheads effort to derail nuclear waste dumping in oil-rich area of Texas
Texas, is urging the Supreme Court to uphold a ruling holding the Nuclear Regulatory Commission lacks licensing authority, ...
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Supreme Court wrestles with explosion of online porn
However, the legislation stalled in the House over free speech concerns. The Supreme Court’s conservatives on Wednesday raised concern that declaring Texas’s law subject to strict scrutiny may ...
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Texas urges Supreme Court to block nuclear waste site
Texas’ top attorney is calling on the Supreme Court to stop a spent nuclear fuel ... approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to house thousands of metric tons of spent fuel hundreds ...
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The Supreme Court is hearing a case about porn and the First Amendment
Will Texas’ contempt for pornography lead the Supreme Court to curb constitutional rights? That’s how an adult industry trade group and others have framed the stakes of a high court hearing ...