The Trump administration outlined its plans in both an internal memo obtained by The Associated Press and filings in one of those federal lawsuits Wednesday. The Supreme Court intervened in that ...

The Justice Department doubled down on its demand that the Supreme Court step in to greenlight ... s effort to consolidate control over federal independent agencies. In the new letter, Acting ...

U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday paused a federal judge's order requiring President Donald Trump's administration to pay foreign aid funds to contractors and grant ...

The Supreme Court is poised to make it easier for nonminority plaintiffs to file workplace discrimination claims against their employers. In oral arguments on Wednesday in Ames v. Ohio Department ...

The Vatican says Pope Francis is responding well to therapy for double pneumonia and has shown a “gradual, slight improvement” in recent days. Prosecutors say a 15-year-old boy planned to kill ...

Ames argued the department discriminated against her on the basis of sexual orientation. A federal district court ruled for the Ohio Department of Youth Services, finding that the department ...

When Marlean Ames tried to sue the Ohio Department ... That’s a test created in 1981 by a federal appeals court that is used by some, but not most, of the federal courts when assessing claims ...

The Supreme Court appeared virtually certain to side ... The justices zipped through their questioning of attorneys for Ames and the federal government on Wednesday and then repeatedly tore ...

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But following the cases and their impact as they move up and down courts can be challenging. Here’s how federal and state courts work and how they can affect politics and the lives of Texans.