Conservative Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical Wednesday that state abortion bans enacted after the overturning of Roe v. Wade violate federal health care law, though some also questioned the effects on emergency care for pregnant patients. The case marks the first time the Supreme Court has considered the implications of a state ban since overturning […]
NEWS AND OPINION: This phrase comes to us from Women’s March, a large group of feminist activists that has been staging large-scale marches and protests in the nation’s capital and other U.S. cities since 2017. “On Thursday, starting at 10:00 a.m. — as the Supreme Court begins hearing oral arguments over Donald Trump’s claim of […]
Twenty-five states have approved measures barring transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s scholastic sports, but West Virginia could become the first to have its law taken up by the Supreme Court. West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey announced he will ask the Supreme Court to consider the constitutionality of the 2021 Save Women’s Sports Act […]
The Biden administration on Wednesday urged the Supreme Court to declare federal law supreme and to force states with severe abortion bans to allow exceptions in emergency cases where a woman’s health is at risk. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar told the justices that a federal emergency care law that requires hospitals to stabilize patients covers […]
Justice Sonia Sotomayor botched the status of abortion laws Wednesday when she said some states bar all abortions, even in cases where the mother’s life is at stake. She was sparring with Joshua Turner, a lawyer defending Idaho’s law, which does generally bar abortions but also includes a mother’s life exception. “What you’re saying is […]
A guaranteed income pilot program in Harris County (Houston), Texas was shut down before the first payment could be processed. The Supreme Court of Texas ruled it must stop while the question of whether or not it is unconstitutional is considered. Last year the Harris County Commissioners Court passed Uplift Harris. The vote was 4-1. […]
The Supreme Court of Finland will hear arguments in the case of an evangelical lawmaker and a Lutheran bishop who are accused of hate speech in expressing their biblical views on homosexuality, defense attorneys said. The high court trial will be the third in which Päivi Räsänen, a former interior minister, and Bishop Juhana Pohjola […]
WASHINGTON — Nearly two years after overturning the constitutional right to abortion, the Supreme Court will consider Wednesday how far state bans can extend to women in medical emergencies. The justices are weighing a case from Idaho, where a strict abortion ban went into effect shortly after the high court‘s 2022 decision overturning Roe v. […]
The Supreme Court battled Tuesday over marriage rights and whether a couple’s desire to live together can trump the government’s decision to block gang members and other dangerous persons from immigrating to the U.S. The case involves Sandra Munoz, a U.S. citizen who is trying to get her husband, a citizen of El Salvador, into […]
The Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to Texas’ mail-in voter law by a group of voters who allege that it discriminates on the basis of age. The voters argued in their petition that the Texas law, which says only citizens 65 and older are eligible for early voting by mail, violates the 26th Amendment […]
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