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The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear the Texas death penalty case of a Honduran national who is arguing that a federal appeals court wrongly...
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The state has been using an unconstitutional, obsolete medical standard for determining whether convicted murderers are exempt from the death penalty because of mental deficiency, justices ruled.
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From Texas Standard . This story originally aired on Nov. 11, 2016, and has been updated throughout. Most parts of a president’s legacy are murky. It...
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From Texas Standard: In late October, before President-elect Donald Trump won the electoral college, he released his plan for his first 100 days in...
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After Thurgood Marshall left for the federal bench, Greenberg became the Legal Defense Fund's second director. Greenberg argued some of the biggest civil rights cases in front of the Supreme Court.
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The Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in a Texas case involving a murder defendant sentenced to death after a trial witness said he was more likely to commit crimes because he was black.
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Duane Buck was given the death penalty after an expert witness testified that he was more likely to be dangerous in the future because he was black. The Supreme Court hears his case Wednesday.
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The new list consists of 10 more possible nominees, including a U.S. senator who has refused to endorse Trump.
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The country sits at a turning point. An President of one party makes several appointments to the Supreme Court and many of the opposing party are…
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The U.S. Supreme Court this morning struck down two provisions passed as House Bill 2 in 2013 that Texas tried to put in place that affected women’s…