Chief Justice Jimmy Blacklock embraced constitutional originalism, a judicial philosophy tied to conservatism, in addressing ...

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals blocked the execution of convicted El Paso 'Desert Killer' David Leonard Wood, court records ...

Chief Justice Jimmy Blacklock asked for higher judicial pay and protections for parents in child custody cases in his first State of the Judiciary address since Gov. Greg Abbott appointed him to the ...

For 45 minutes Wednesday, members of the Texas Supreme Court aggressively questioned ... “The heavily regulated duty [defense] is out,” Justice Brett Busby responded. “What in the record ...

WASHINGTON — The shadow of the long-stalled proposed nuclear waste facility at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, loomed over Supreme Court ... Justice Samuel Alito noted that the 40-year license for the ...

Justice Sonya Sotomayor said the U.S. has run out of other options, adding that it’s not the court’s role to try to force Congress to act by blocking the Texas site. “When are we in the ...

The justices heard arguments in the case of a man on death row in Texas ... t show he wasn’t there,” Justice Alito said. Early last year, a split three-judge panel at the U.S. Court of Appeals ...

(The Texas Tribune) In his first address to the Texas Legislature, Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Jimmy Blacklock struck a more ideological tone than his predecessor, proudly embracing ...