The county’s guaranteed income pilot program was designed provide $500 monthly subsidies for more than 1,900 low-income households for 18 months. The first payments, set to go out Wednesday, are now on indefinite hold.
(The Center Square) – The Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday issued an administrative stay to temporarily block Harris County’s “Uplift Harris” guaranteed income pilot program from going into effect, granting a request filed earlier in the day by Attorney General Ken Paxton. This is after two lower courts, the 165th District Court and the 14th Court of Appeals, denied his request for a temporary injunction, ruling in favor of Harris County in a lawsuit Paxton filed to stop it from...
House Bill 900 requires books sold in the state be rated for sexual content by the book seller, similar to how Hollywood rates movies.
On Monday, a split United States Supreme Court decision
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is challenging the program, saying it violates the Texas Constitution.
The attorney general of Ohio has asked the state’s Supreme Court to intervene in a matter involving an Ohio judge who temporarily blocked a law Read More
Arizona Republicans in the state House blocked a second effort to repeal the state's 1864 law banning abortion which has sparked outrage nationwide.
The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in two consolidated cases, Moyle v. Idaho and Idaho v. United States, to determine whether a federal law governing Read More
A case working its way through the Supreme Court could end up giving cities the power to outlaw homelessness.
If you are homeless and have nowhere to go — neither a temporary shelter bed nor a permanent home — can you be fined or, worse, jailed for sleeping on a sidewalk? Or is that cruel and unusual punishment? That’s the question that the Supreme Court wrestled with Monday when it heard oral arguments in the case of Grants Pass vs. Johnson regarding the Oregon city's ordinance allowing police to fine or jail homeless people for sleeping outside. A federal district court ruled that the law violated the...
Students get to view oral arguments, interact with justices.
Thursday’s argument in Trump v. United States was a disaster for Special Counsel Jack Smith, and for anyone who believes that the president of the United States should be subject to prosecution if they commit a crime. At least five of the Court’s Republicans seemed eager to, at the very least, permit Trump to delay his federal criminal trial for attempting to steal the 2020 election until after this November’s election. And the one GOP appointee who seemed to hedge the most, Chief Justice John...