Blacklock is replacing retired Chief Justice Nathan Hecht, while Abbott's legal adviser James Sullivan takes the open spot on ...

AUSTIN — Gov. Greg Abbott appointed Texas Supreme Court Justice Jimmy Blacklock to be the court’s chief justice and named ...

Blacklock replaces Nathan Hecht, the longest serving justice on the high court. Gov. Greg Abbott also appointed his general ...

The judge presiding over Donald Trump's criminal hush-money case has denied a motion from the president-elect to postpone ...

Trump was convicted in May of falsifying records related to a hush money payment his then-attorney Michael Cohen paid to ...

Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday appointed one of his office's former lawyers to the Texas Supreme Court and another to replace the court's Chief Justice Nathan Hecht, who retired last month. Abbott's ...

A New York judge on Monday rejected US President-elect Donald Trump's request to delay sentencing set for later this week in ...

A Tennessee law requiring pornographic websites to verify the age of its visitors was largely blocked in court before taking effect Jan. 1.

The New York judge who oversaw President-elect Trump’s criminal trial this spring declined his request to pause Friday’s sentencing, setting up a last-minute appellate battle as he seeks to stave ...

That Judge Juan Merchan has scheduled a Jan. 10 sentencing — and with no expected punishment — doesn’t mean this story is over.

Donald Trump's return to power has thrown into question the future of the more than 1,500 federal cases brought over the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol four years ago.

(NEW YORK) -- President-elect Donald Trump, seeking to halt the upcoming sentencing in his criminal hush money case in New ...