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State supreme courts have the final say on the meaning of their states' constitutions and laws.

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But it reveals a lot about the divide in the party.

Where he's going isn't where we've been.

Ken Paxton may have just opened a legal Pandora's box, but it's part of much broader plans we should expect to see unfold in the new year.

It's obedience in advance, plain and simple.

More than 6,500 prisons, jails, and immigration detention centers are vulnerable to environmental disasters nationwide.

After almost two weeks of vote counting, Democratic Justice Allison Riggs won her election to the North Carolina Supreme Court by just 734 votes.

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Alito and Thomas were correct about one thing.