U.S. Supreme Court

At issue was a federal law that has been on the books for 20 years that barred federal candidates from raising more than $250,000 to repay loans made to their campaigns.

History shows there are few governors who have attempted to make immigration central to their campaigns, and it has worked — in the short term.

An Austin-based reproductive care and education agency reported more than 700 requests for emergency contraception kits after the leaked opinion showed the Supreme Court is likely to overturn Roe v. Wade.

People took to the streets of Austin on Tuesday to support abortion rights after news broke that the U.S. Supreme Court intends to overturn the landmark case that established the right to an abortion nearly 50 years ago.

More than half of the voters surveyed by the UT/Texas Politics Project were in favor of allowing abortion in Texas. The poll was conducted before the U.S. Supreme Court’s leaked draft opinion on the landmark 1973 decision that established the right to an abortion.

Biden says the reasoning in the leaked Supreme Court draft would mean "every other decision related to the notion of privacy is thrown into question," including contraception and gay marriage.

Texas is one of more than a dozen conservative-led states that have passed so-called trigger laws designed to end abortion access for nearly all residents if Roe v. Wade is overturned.

A draft opinion published by Politico suggests that earlier this year a majority of Supreme Court justices supported overturning the 1973 case Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion nationwide.

Reed has long professed his innocence in the 1996 murder for which he faces execution. Key evidence in the case has not been tested for DNA, including the ligature used to strangle 19-year-old Stacey Stites.

The U.S. Supreme Court, on a vote of 6-3, has upheld the City of Austin restrictions on billboards and other signs.