Southern Methodist University is set to appear in the Texas Supreme Court in a bid to separate from the United Methodist ...

The church sued the university in 2019 after SMU's board of trustees voted to split from the church without approval from the ...

The Texas Supreme Court is weighing three landmark cases concerning conflicts between the state and religious freedom, and ...

Blacklock replaces Nathan Hecht, the longest serving justice on the high court. Gov. Greg Abbott also appointed his general ...

A multi-year fight over whether Southern Methodist University can separate itself from the United Methodist Church is heading ...

Hecht is the longest-tenured Supreme Court justice in Texas history. He won six reelections and led the court as chief ...

Abbott originally appointed Blacklock to the high court as the Place 2 justice in 2018. Abbott's general counsel James ...

AUSTIN — Gov. Greg Abbott appointed Texas Supreme Court Justice Jimmy Blacklock to be the court’s chief justice and named ...

Gov. Greg Abbott named Jimmy Blacklock as chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court following the retirement of Nathan Hecht.

Southern Methodist University in Dallas and the United Methodist Church are set to deliver oral arguments in the Texas ...

Paxton appealed a federal court ruling blocking the voter ID law in August 2017, the same month he asked the U.S. Supreme ...

The Texas Supreme Court set oral arguments in the case of SMU and the United Methodist Church's South Central Jurisdictional ...