Here’s how federal courts help determine the fate of controversial issues, such as immigration laws, in Texas and beyond.

The Supreme Court on Monday morning released a long list of orders from the justices’ private conference on Feb. 21 – the ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's effort to curtail automatic birthright citizenship nationwide as part of his hardline ...

A federal appeals court has revived legal action in the Kendrick Johnson case, allowing his parents to sue individual ...

An appeals court on Wednesday let stand an order blocking President ... directed U.S. agencies to refuse to recognize the citizenship of children born in the United States after Wednesday if neither ...

Marlean Ames, 60, an employee at Indian River Juvenile Correctional Facility, contends gay applicants were unfairly given ...

Justice Clarence Thomas said the Supreme Court should overrule or limit a 75-year-old ruling in a dissent published on Monday ...

The attorney general’s office filed an appeal late Tuesday after U.S. District Judge Amir Ali ordered the administration to ...

There is just one appeals court for the entire U.S. immigration system — the Board of Immigration Appeals, in Falls Church, ...

Sen. John Neely Kennedy (R-Louisiana) told Justice Dept. nominees: “Don’t ever, ever take the position that you’re not going ...

Multiple investigations have ended with Kendrick Johnson's death called an accident, but his parents believe that someone killed the Georgia teen at his high school and that law enforcement covered up ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that a group of Virginia drivers challenging a state motor vehicle law was not entitled to reimbursement of their attorney’s fees even though a federal district cour ...