Texas will become the first state to no longer use American Bar Association (ABA) for oversight of its law schools. The Texas Supreme Court will take over that responsibility, according to an order its justices issued on Friday, Sept. 26. The ABA has set standards for law schools nationwide for decades.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared ready to gut a key tool of the Voting Rights Act that has helped root out racial discrimination in voting for more than a half century, a change that would boost Republican electoral prospects, particularly across the South.

The Supreme Court is reviewing a case centered on Section 2 of the voting rights act, which prohibits electoral practices that diminish the voting power of minority communities.

The U.S. Supreme Court appears inclined to limit the Voting Rights Act's ability to force states to draw electoral districts in favor of minority voters.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, leaving in place the $1.4 billion judgment against him.

They can literally create a permanent one-party rule system without the Voting Rights Act in place–and doing it at the

As bad as the congressional redistricting map is in Texas for Democrats, it could be about to get a lot worse based on a Louisiana case that the U.S. Supreme Court heard Wednesday.

The controversy grew out of Louisiana’s attempt to account for population shifts after the 2020 census. The legislature drew a new congressional map that had only one majority-Black district out of six, even though Black people made up about one-third of the population.