CNN Opinion by Dominic Erdozain (CNN) — When machine guns became available to civilians in the US in the 1920s, the public reaction was swift and emphatic. The presence of such weapons, protested journalist Owen P. White in 1926, was “the…
The Texas Supreme Court is blocking Harris County’s planned guaranteed income program. The court placed a hold on the program Friday while a lawsuit against it moves through the court of appeals. The Uplift Harris program would give over…
The Supreme Court seemed to signal interest this week in taking up a challenge launched by Hawaii against big oil companies to hold them liable for climate change.
Conservative attorney George Conway said Friday that he thinks former President Trump will “lose big” in his presidential immunity case that is before the Supreme Court. Conway joined CNN’s Jim Acosta to talk about the highly anticipated…
President Biden’s reelection campaign dropped a new ad Saturday highlighting his administration’s work on gun violence prevention, just a day after the Supreme Court invalidated the Trump-era prohibition on bump stocks. In the 30-second ad…
AUSTIN – The Supreme Court of Texas (“SCOTX”) has granted review of the lower court decision that has permitted politically motivated lawfare by the State Bar of Texas against First Assistant Attorney General Brent Webster to continue.…
AUSTIN – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has obtained a stay from the Supreme Court of Texas (“SCOTX”) stopping an unlawful “guaranteed income” scheme by Harris County called “Uplift Harris” that violates the Texas Constitution. In April…
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The Texas Supreme Court has declined to take up a major in vitro fertilization case that could have potentially…
President Biden is urging Congress to ban bump stocks, an accessory that can increase the rate of fire of semi-automatic weapons, after the Supreme Court struck down a ban put in place by former President Donald Trump after the 2017…
Liberals say revelations about Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. raise questions about his ability to rule impartially on Jan. 6-related cases.
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Friday struck down a Trump-era ban on bump stocks, the rapid-fire gun accessories used in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, in a ruling that threw firearms back into the nation's…