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The associate justices were the judges of the eight district courts of Texas. The district judges, whose first session was January 13, 1840, served with the chief justice as associate justices from January 13, 1840 to December 29, 1845, when Texas was admitted into the United States:
It was the first time in his 15 years on the Supreme Court that Roberts had cast a vote to invalidate a law that regulated abortion. [162] In September 2021, the Supreme Court declined an emergency petition to temporarily block enforcement of the Texas Heartbeat Act, which bans abortion after six weeks of pregnancy except to save the mother's life.
Democrats complain the ethics code the court adopted in 2023 after reports of lavish trips Justice Clarence Thomas accepted from billionaire Republican donor Harlan Crow does not include an ...
The Chief Justice of Texas presides at the Texas Supreme Court, which is the top appellate court for civil matters in the Texas court system. The chief justice (and all the justices) are elected statewide in partisan elections. The term of the chief justice is six years. The position was created in the Texas Constitution of 1876.
Chief Justice John Roberts, left, and Associate Justice Samuel Alito are seated as they and the other Supreme Court members sit for a group photo at the Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill on ...
The Supreme Court is under great stress, if not in crisis. So says Chief Justice John Roberts in his annual report. In important respects, Roberts is surely correct. The public’s trust in the ...
President George W. Bush announced that he would nominate Judge John Roberts as the Supreme Court's 17th chief justice on September 5, 2005, two days after the death of Chief Justice William Rehnquist, and five weeks after selecting him for appointment to succeed O'Connor as associate justice. [16]
(The Center square) – U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts warned that judges across the country face increasing threats from disinformation, violence, intimidation and those ...