AUSTIN — Gov. Greg Abbott appointed Texas Supreme Court Justice Jimmy Blacklock to be the court’s chief justice and named ...

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

Republicans are stepping up their scrutiny of dozens of shelters run by aid groups on the U.S. border with Mexico.

Long-simmering tensions within the Texas GOP are spilling out into the open amid a heated battle for the state House Speaker ...

You might want law enforcement to have the data to crack down on criminals, but can anyone have access to it?” said Jodi ...

The appointment of Robert W. McElroy is a signal of the pope’s priorities, two weeks before Donald J. Trump’s term begins.

Texas' highest court on Tuesday rejected an effort by state bar regulators to discipline a top deputy to Republican Texas ...

The state bar sought to take away the law license of Assistant Attorney General Brent Webster over a Texas lawsuit ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton will be in Tyler next week, he announced Tuesday on social media. Paxton’s visit to the ...

Abbott originally appointed Blacklock to the high court as the Place 2 justice in 2018. Blacklock previously worked for ...

In a split decision, the Texas Supreme Court dismissed a State Bar of Texas disciplinary action against the first assistant ...