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Although migrant families separated at the border this summer are getting a second chance to make their case for staying in the country, immigration lawyers say the Trump administration is working overtime to upend the nation's asylum process.

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Austin ISD is considering a policy change that would limit rental use of its facilities, including to a church that uses one building for Sunday sermons.

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A U.S. district judge said Dallas could not impose pre-set bail amounts on poor defendants without individual consideration.

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With the midterms just weeks away and sexual misconduct allegations swirling around Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, the political stakes are high for the junior senator from Texas.

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In his new job, Hawkins will fight the state’s most important legal battles in the country’s most important courtrooms.

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A federal judge has ruled for Texas in a long-running challenge to the state's system of electing judges to its two highest courts.

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Critics say doing so would risk the coverage of tens of millions.

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The ruling comes after a five-day trial in July at which patients, health providers, state agency officials, bioethicists, cemetery directors and religious leaders got on the witness stand.

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A lawsuit alleges that the county is jailing some of its poorest people without any meaningful inquiry into their ability to pay. In most cases, bail hearings that lead to those people being put behind bars last no more than 15 seconds.

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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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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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In a lawsuit filed Wednesday, two teacher groups argue Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath exceeded his authority and weakened protections for public school employees.

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Some of the groups that have sued over the state's political maps made their intentions clear in a court filing Wednesday.

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The temporary holding facilities often come as a surprise to the unsuspecting civilians who work or live nearby.

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After more than 13 hours of deliberation, jurors convicted former Balch Springs police officer Roy Oliver of murder in the fatal shooting of an unarmed, 15-year-old black teenager.

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Austin "crypto-anarchist" Cody Wilson says buyers can name their price for 3D-printed gun blueprints.

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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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Federal officials have given few details. Activists have called it a "horrifying scene."

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Roy Oliver was indicted on murder and aggravated assault charges in the 2017 police shooting that killed the unarmed black teen.

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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.

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