Abbott originally appointed Blacklock to the high court as the Place 2 justice in 2018. Blacklock previously worked for ...

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill has formally ordered “a full review of security plans” in place in New Orleans for the ...

Attorney General Merrick Garland commended the officers who respond to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol. “On this day, ...

Paxton appealed a federal court ruling blocking the voter ID law in August 2017, the same month he asked the U.S. Supreme ...

The conservative state lawmaker went to Austin to help public schools. Then he became the target of his own party's leaders.

After a year in which he helped reshape the Texas Legislature, Gov. Greg Abbott is at the zenith of his political power.

Derek Brown has been working with a team of 40 to complete a review of the attorney general's office ahead of his first day ...

Republicans are stepping up their scrutiny of dozens of shelters run by aid groups on the U.S. border with Mexico.

Tracy Sorensen was appointed Dec. 19 to the 278th District Court, which presides over civil and criminal cases in the ...

Matt Johnson was sworn in Thursday as chief justice of Waco's 10th Court of Appeals, the intermediate state appellate court's first new chief justice in more than 20 years.

At least 15 people are dead and dozens injured in New Orleans after a driver plowed a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year's ...

Hecht modernized the court, increased access to justice for the poor and saw his conservative views come to dominate the ...