The Texas Legislature was back in session Tuesday, taking up one of the emergency items Governor Greg Abbott identified in his recent State of the State ...

Federal judges across the country have flexed their authority at President Donald Trump as he moves to rapidly reshape the government.

Faced with more immediate funding needs, state officials haven’t asked for more money for rehabilitation programs, such as ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — New Attorney General Pam Bondi on Wednesday ordered a review of the federal prosecution of Donald Trump as ...

A top Justice Department official has accused the FBI’s acting leaders of “insubordination” in a memo in which he sought to ...

The American-Statesman reached out to the Texas attorney general's office and the Justice Department for comment but did not hear back Thursday. Sanchez told the El Paso Times on Jan. 21 that El ...

As chief counsel ... related to criminal justice, border security, intellectual property and religious liberty, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Ganjei first joined the Department ...

He was subsequently sentenced to five years of confinement in a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison. In 2011, Alonzo was convicted of failure to register as a sex offender and subsequently ...

Lanora Pettit, principal deputy solicitor general and one of the Texas Office of Attorney General's most prominent attorneys, is joining the U.S. Department of Justice. Attorney General Ken Paxton ...

Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to capital punishment.

Officials from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice declined ... the attorney general to accept or deny pending requests for certifications for the State Capital Counsel Mechanism ...