For decades, Texas Child Protective Services (CPS) has systematically placed children in its care at substantial risk of harm and even death, leaving children more damaged when they exit foster care than when they entered. Texas foster children experi- ence an unreasonably high risk of physical abuse, sexual abuse, suicide, and poor supervision in the state’s care.
Higher Education
Student-Athletes Are Not Employees
College athletics is approaching a crossroads. After years of rapid, sweeping change in student-athlete compensation practices that have left a patchwork of state regulation in its wake, some in Congress now propose to reclassify collegiate student‑athletes across the country as employees of their universities. While we sympathize with the desire to provide certainty and uniformity to student-athletes and universities, and although we see the need for some revenue-sharing framework, workplace regulation...
May 19, 2026