Justices made the decision months after the teenager, who was in federal custody in Brownsville, terminated her pregnancy. Federal officials argued they didn’t have time to appeal a lower court’s ruling that cleared the way for the procedure.
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Texas must reveal where it got execution drugs, the Texas Supreme Court affirms
The move from the Texas Supreme Court comes more than a year after an Austin-based appeals court said the agency must reveal a 2014 supplier of lethal injection drugs.
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Politics
These veterans from Texas were deported. They say they deserve a second chance.
They can see the country they once served from a park in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. But a number of men who once wore a military uniform are barred from coming back after being deported to their native country.
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Criminal Justice
Texas-based attorneys push to end separation of families who enter U.S. illegally
A coalition of Texas-based attorneys filed an emergency request to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to order the United States to end the practice of family separation at the border.
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Demographics
Texas immigration case could play large role in family separations
In El Paso, attorneys with the American Civil Liberties Union and representatives from the Border Network for Human Rights said a lawsuit that seeks to end family separations at the border could hinge, in part, on the case of a woman detained in 2017.
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Politics
Texas Supreme Court sides with short-term renters, likely bolstering state’s fight against Austin’s ordinance
Friday’s ruling doesn’t directly address regulations implemented by some Texas cities restricting homeowners’ use of services like Airbnb. But it bolsters the case against the City of Austin’s short-term rental ordinance in several major ways, lawyers said.
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Criminal Justice
Lawsuit claims one of Texas’ top Republican judges fired his secretary for supporting Democrats on social media
Olga Zuniga, who worked as a secretary on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals for 14 years, claims she was fired by her Republican boss for her social media posts favoring Democrats.
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Politics
Mexican journalist detained in Texas granted new asylum hearing
After a decade of seeking asylum, a Mexican reporter and his son have been granted a new asylum hearing. The pair has been detained in Texas since last December.
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Higher Education
After ex-employee is accused of fraud, UT hires a former federal prosecutor to investigate internal controls
A former director at the university’s law school is accused of fraud in a case potentially involving millions of dollars.
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State Government
Asked to propose a fix to voting rights violation, Texas offers few answers
Following a ruling last month that Texas was violating a law designed to ease the voter registration process, a federal judge ordered the state to submit a plan to fix it. Texas’ response offered few specifics.
