Gov. Greg Abbott has appointed his former general counsel and current Texas Supreme Court Justice, Jimmy Blacklock as the ...

The Supreme Court will hear a challenge to the Texas law that requires age verification — via government-issued ID or face scan — for certain websites, including porn sites.

Abbott originally appointed Blacklock to the high court as the Place 2 justice in 2018. Abbott's general counsel James ...

Notably, the only current member of the Supreme Court who was also on the court in 2004 is Justice Clarence Thomas. The conservative justice was in the majority. Texas is pointing to another ...

By Adam Liptak Reporting from Washington Several members of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority seemed deeply skeptical of a challenge to a Texas law that seeks to limit minors’ access ...

Washington — The Supreme Court ... the content there that Texas is trying to shield them from, the Free Speech Coalition argued. But conservative members of the court said the landscape has ...

14 (UPI) --The U.S. Supreme Court ... according to a court brief, filed by Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, four other Republican senators and 18 Republican House members. Texas solicitor general Aaron ...

Greg Abbott swears in Jimmy Blacklock to fill a vacancy on the Texas Supreme Court in ... be surprised if the governor promoted a current member of the court, calling his former colleagues ...

Blacklock replaces Nathan Hecht, the longest serving justice on the high court. Gov. Greg Abbott also appointed his general counsel, James Sullivan, to the bench.

Texas says its measure is necessary to protect children from the current near-instantaneous ... This isn't the first time the Supreme Court has confronted the issue. In 1996, the court struck ...

Texas, by way of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, is before the Supreme Court on a conservative culture-war issue. This case centers on a Texas law that requires sites with one-third or more ...