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Supreme Court, Texas and pornography

Supreme Court will hear Texas anti-pornography law that challengers say violates free-speech rights

Texas is among more than a dozen states with similar laws aimed at blocking young children and teenagers from viewing pornography.

Reuters · 5h

Texas online porn age-verification law goes to US Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court is set on Wednesday to hear a challenge on free speech grounds to a Texas law that requires pornographic websites to verify the age of users in a case testing the legality of state efforts to keep minors from viewing such material online.

CBS News on MSN · 21h

Supreme Court to consider age-verification requirement for porn websites

Texas and 18 other states have recently enacted laws requiring pornography websites to verify the ages of their visitors.

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CNN · 1h

Supreme Court hears arguments on First Amendment challenge to age verification for porn sites

The Supreme Court will hear a challenge to the Texas law that requires age verification — via government-issued ID or face scan — for certain websites, including porn sites.

NBC News on MSN · 4h

Supreme Court weighs challenge to Texas adult website restriction

The Supreme Court on Wednesday considers whether to strike down a Texas law aimed at preventing young people from accessing pornographic content online.

Trump, flags and Texas

USA Today · 1d

Texas orders flags raised for Trump inauguration; will other states do the same?

Flags have been flying at half staff to mourn Jimmy Carter for 30 days. One state has ordered that flags be raised to full staff for inauguration day.

CBS Texas on MSN · 22h

Texas Gov. Abbott orders flags to full-staff for Trump's inauguration despite national mourning for Carter

DALLAS - Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has directed that American flags on state property be flown at full staff to mark President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration next week, bypassing the national mourning period for former President Jimmy Carter. The move has sparked both praise and criticism on social media.

Newsweek on MSN · 2h

Map Shows States Flying Flags at Full-Staff for Donald Trump

Governors for Florida, Alabama, Iowa, Nebraska and Texas have said they will fly flags at full-staff for Donald Trump's Inauguration Day, along with the Capitol at Washington D. C.—before the end of the mourning period for late former President Jimmy Carter.

Texas House elects Rep. Dustin Burrows

The Texas Tribune on MSN · 12h

Rep. Dustin Burrows voted Texas House speaker in blow to insurgent GOP movement

Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, was elected speaker of the Texas House on Tuesday, concluding a bitter and intense power struggle within the Republican party that came down to an extraordinary floor vote to decide who would fill one of the most powerful positions in state government.

The Washington Post · 17h

Texas has a powerful new House speaker in a blow to the GOP's hard right

Instead, new House Speaker Dustin Burrows won the job with the support of Democrats, who favored him over a challenger backed by the GOP’s emboldened right.

USA Today · 19h

Texas House elects Rep. Dustin Burrows as speaker

Lubbock Republican state Rep. Dustin Burrows clenched the speakership of the Texas House on Tuesday in the culmination of an unusually long and unusually public mudfight for the role. As expected, Burrows relied on a coalition of Democratic and Republican members to win,

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No, states are not required to follow White House order to fly flags at half-staff in memory of former President Carter

No, states are not required to follow White House order to fly flags at half-staff in memory of former President Jimmy Carter ...

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Texas governor orders state’s flags raised to full-staff for Trump’s inauguration

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Monday ordered the state’s flags be raised to full-staff on Inauguration Day, as ...

10hon MSN

East Texas expert says both respiratory, stomach illnesses peaking nationwide

Both across the state of Texas and in this area, an increase in the number of emergency room visits, as well as ...

The Texas Tribune on MSN4h

Texas GOP chair denies church-state separation as lawmakers, pastors prep for ‘spiritual battle’

Abraham George’s comments are the latest sign of the state GOP’s embrace of fundamentalist ideologies that seek to center ...

1don MSN

Texas Legislature's 89th session will start Tuesday. Who are key players you should know?

The 89th Texas Legislature will convene Tuesday. Here are some of the members who will help shape state policies.

22hon MSN

Will Houston get snow during next week's Texas freeze? Here are 5 things we know so far

A chance of snow showers and sleet has emerged in the forecast. Here are five things we know so far about next week's ...

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