The Supreme Court, 7-2, voted to deny Texas AG Paxton's motion for leave to file its election complaint. Justices Alito and Thomas would grant Motion for Leave, but provide no other relief.
If you thought the briefing in Texas v. Pennsylvania could not get worse, you are in for a surprise.
The four defendant states in Texas v. Pennsylvania file their briefs in opposition.
17 states submitted a brief supporting Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's effort to prevent the selection of electors in four states, but only 6 joined today's motion to intervene. [Update: Meanwhile, Ohio files a brief that's worth reading.]
The case is within the Court' original jurisdiction. But longstanding precedent still allows the Court to dismiss it without full consideration.
Embattled Attorney General Ken Paxton is the latest to ask the Supreme Court to intervene in the 2020 Presidential election results.
Steve Adler attended his daughter's 20-person wedding and then traveled with out-of-state family and friends.
That makes the disease much deadlier than the seasonal flu but not nearly as deadly as modelers initially assumed.
As the coronavirus reshapes daily life, two Reason editors crisscross the country and describe what they’ve seen.
A new lawsuit says the state's electioneering statutes violate the First Amendment.
There was nothing remotely fraudulent about the 127,000 votes cast in Harris County's drive-thru voting station.
A lawsuit filed just days before the election asks federal courts to toss out all the votes already cast at drive-through polling stations in Harris County.
Across 14 states that track party affiliations of absentee-ballot-voters, 56 percent of mail-in votes have been cast by Democrats and only 23 percent have been cast by Republicans.
Holly Barlow-Austin suffered horrifying medical neglect at a Texarkana detention facility, according to video evidence in a new lawsuit.
One very sketchy story about an Oklahoma City teen’s tragic death has gone viral.
The New York Times thinks so, but the data do not fit that hypothesis very well.
An interview with the directors behind the breakout political documentary about a Texas camp for aspiring leaders
The trend means we should see declining daily deaths in the coming weeks.
The charges, which grew out of a lethal 2019 raid based on a fraudulent search warrant affidavit, suggest that cops routinely built their cases on lies.
"Garrett Foster understood that libertarianism was about speaking on behalf of those who are the most acutely affected by the abuses perpetrated by an overly aggressive and unaccountable government."
Meanwhile, the case fatality rate is still falling.
We are starting to see the fatal consequences of the recent infection surge.
Expanded testing, a younger mix of patients, and improved treatment help explain the seemingly contradictory trends.
The evidence suggests Americans are right to wonder.
The difference implies that the virus is much less deadly than it looks, but it also makes contact tracing a daunting challenge.
A new documentary chronicles the defeat of a grassroots protest to halt the Texas Rangers' subsidized stadium deal.
The trend, which may reflect growing defiance of social distancing in some age groups, implies a lower death rate.
The downward trend continued after states began lifting their lockdowns.
New infections are down nationwide but rising in some places as people rebel against government-recommended precautions.
Plus: The U.S. Supreme Court stops an execution at the last minute, a senator argues that you shouldn't get HBO GO for free, and more...
"We have long interpreted the Georgia Constitution as protecting a right to work in one's chosen profession free from unreasonable government interference."
The sooner everyone else recognizes those limits, the sooner we can shift to policies that balance public health and economic freedom.
Gov. Greg Abbott made the change after a Dallas salon owner was jailed for reopening her salon.
Empty displays of ritual militarism are always a waste of time, money, and goodwill, but especially during a pandemic.
Texas salons are allowed to reopen on Friday. Shelley Luther will be sitting in jail.
"You can't exactly eat with a mask on, and I have a small space where people would be in close proximity to each other."
Lockdown enforcement is becoming more authoritarian.
"Delaying abortions by weeks does nothing to further the State's interest in combatting COVID-19," they say.
She posted on social media about deliberately spreading the disease, but she's not actually sick.
The ACLU is also suing Washington, D.C. jails.
Plus: the pandemic in prisons, pushback on Trump's prescription for economic rebound, and more...
The relics of terrible segregationist government policies are still felt in East Austin, an area that's quickly gentrifying
Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg says it's reasonable to presume that Gerald Goines also lied in other drug cases.
Council member Gregorio Casar: "I think the state of Texas should come out of the Stone Ages and not only decriminalize but legalize marijuana in the state."
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