The Texas Supreme Court on Friday dismissed an ethics complaint against Attorney General Ken Paxton, ending a nearly three-year battle over whether the state’s top legal officer should be sanctioned for conduct before the U.

The state bar had sought to sanction Paxton, which could have carried a punishment ranging from a private reprimand to disbarment.

A committee of the State Bar filed professional misconduct complaints against Attorney General Ken Paxton for challenging the 2020 election result.

A lawyer argues that the Supreme Court must stand up to the Trump Administration and preserve the rule of law.

Rather than take judges out of the national debate over abortion, as the 2022 Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe V. Wade promised to do, that ruling has unleashed a new wave of legal questions – including how to settle disputes between the states about whether their abortion laws can be applied outside their borders.

Republican legislators are looking at potentially adding justices to the Utah Supreme Court and making it harder for all judges to keep their jobs by raising the bar in retention elections. The bill comes as the judiciary is in the crosshairs of the Republican-dominated Legislature after courts have repeatedly blocked significant pieces of the agenda — halting a near-total ban on abortions,