The Texas Supreme Court has stepped into the legal battle over Austin’s multi-billion-dollar light rail project, ordering a lower court judge to officially rule on a jurisdictional challenge filed by ...

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It's the latest in the legal battle over Project Connect, a multi-billion-dollar expansion of public transit in Austin.

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The court dealt a blow to Gov. Abbott and state Republicans in their efforts to severely punish more than 50 Democrats.

In this Oct. 2, 2018, file photo, semi-automatic rifles fill a wall at a gun shop in Lynnwood, Wash. A Comal County, Texas man argues a protective order banning him from owning a gun for life after he ...

The Texas Supreme Court on Friday shut down Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R) effort to penalize the dozens of Democratic legislators ...

The Texas Supreme Court has given a hemp business more time to request a rehearing in a case it ruled on earlier this month, ...

Edward Busby's execution had been on hold for nearly a week but a decision by the Supreme Court on Thursday allowed it to move forward.

A ruling Friday sends a lawsuit over Austin Light Rail funding back to a Travis County court.

The court hung its order on reasoning from a previous ruling in Abbott v. League of United Latin American Citizens, but did not elaborate. Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, a ...

WASHINGTON >> The U.S. Supreme Court formally reinstated today a redrawn Texas electoral map that was designed to add more Republicans to the U.S. House of Representatives, as President Donald Trump’s ...