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AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Senate Subcommittee on Higher Education held public hearings Tuesday to discuss free speech and antisemitism on college campuses, as well as public universities’ compliance with
FORT WORTH, Texas – The Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office announced today that it would ask the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to reverse the recent decision to overturn Crystal Mason’s illegal voting conviction.
AUSTIN, Texas – State and university officials deployed law enforcement agencies Wednesday to dismantle pro-Palestinian demonstrations at the University of Texas at Austin, the flagship public university in the state.
AUSTIN, Texas — A class action lawsuit on behalf of people jailed without lawyers in Travis County was filed in federal court Wednesday night to affirm the constitutional right to counsel at first appearance.
AUSTIN, Texas — The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas and the ACLU published today an analysis of Travis County first appearance hearings in criminal court. The report shows numerous issues with Travis County’s practice of making people face a judge without legal counsel at their first appeara
AUSTIN, Texas — Today the Texas Court of Appeals upheld two injunctions against the Texas DFPS and former Commissioner Jaime Masters, barring them from implementing the agency’s rule expanding the definition of child abuse to presumptively treat the provision of gender-affirming care as child abuse.