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Emma Platoff
Emma Platoff was a reporter at the Tribune from 2017 to 2021, most recently covering the law and its intersection with politics. A graduate of Yale University, Emma is the former managing editor of the Yale Daily News.
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Politics
Why Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh would be good news for Texas Republicans
Texas aims to land several high-profile lawsuits before the high court — and hopes that, with Kavanaugh there, it will win them.
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Politics
Trump-appointed judges are shifting the country’s most politically conservative circuit court further to the right
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which hears cases from Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana, has already welcomed five new judges under President Donald Trump.
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Election judges can carry guns to the polls, Texas attorney general says
Election judges who work long hours in rural areas had expressed safety concerns, a Republican lawmaker told Paxton in March.
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Criminal Justice
Blocked from giving away 3D-printed gun blueprints, Texas man says he’s selling them instead
Austin “crypto-anarchist” Cody Wilson says buyers can name their price for 3D-printed gun blueprints.
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Health care
Report: Toddler died after contracting infection at ICE family detention facility
The toddler from Guatemala died six weeks after leaving an ICE family detention center in Dilley. She had not yet turned two years old.
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Economy
State appeals court temporarily blocks Austin’s paid sick leave ordinance
An Austin-based appeals court on Friday evening blocked the city’s controversial ordinance requiring private employers to provide paid sick leave to their employees.
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Families Divided
Judge says reunited migrant families can now face a choice: Stay locked up together, or separate again
The Justice Department asked for the order to ensure that migrant parents who would otherwise have been detained can’t “bootstrap a right to release” just because they’re reunited with their children.
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Families Divided
After “disturbance” at immigrant detention center, 16 migrant fathers taken away overnight
Federal officials have given few details. Activists have called it a “horrifying scene.”
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Higher Education
Federal appeals court upholds Texas campus carry law
A three-judge panel of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a prior dismissal of a lawsuit filed by three professors at the University of Texas at Austin, which aimed to block the law and allow professors to prohibit firearms in their classrooms.