Texas

Children are being separated from their families at the border and put in detention centers since a zero-tolerance immigration policy took effect in April. Sen. Bill Nelson filed legislation to end the separation of children and families at the U.S.-Mexico border.

After an appeals court put Wisconsin's law back into effect, the Supreme Court put the law on hold while the justices decide whether to take the case.

Regulations passed in Texas, which affected clinics that perform abortions there, have been blocked by a federal judge, on the grounds that they unconstitutionally restricted access to legal abortion.