Republican senators and candidates cheer leaked draft Supreme Court decision on abortion
Senate Republican incumbents and candidates took to Twitter to repeat their hopes that Roe v. Wade would be overturned.
By Josh Israel - May 03, 2022Senate Republican incumbents and candidates took to Twitter to repeat their hopes that Roe v. Wade would be overturned.
By Josh Israel - May 03, 2022‘I will fight like hell to make sure abortion remains safe, legal, and accessible in our state,’ Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer tweeted late Monday.
By Associated Press - May 03, 2022The state GOP’s proposed new platform would remove protections for pregnant people whose lives are at risk.
By Lisa Needham - April 28, 2022A Connecticut bill that would protect abortion access comes as GOP-dominated states enact new restrictions in anticipation of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.
By Kaishi Chhabra - April 22, 2022‘If Roe is overturned, abortion could become illegal in Michigan in nearly any circumstance—including in cases of rape and incest,’ said Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
By Adrian Cole - April 12, 2022Since the Supreme Court agreed to consider Mississippi’s ban, multiple states have passed previability bans.
By Lisa Needham - April 08, 2022Forty-seven Republican senators voted against approving Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to succeed retiring Justice Stephen Breyer.
By Josh Israel - April 07, 2022Even far-right nominee Robert Bork got a better treatment.
By Josh Israel - April 05, 2022Americans broadly support confirming Judge Jackson to the Supreme Court, recent polling shows.
By Josh Israel - March 30, 2022Lawmakers and clinics in a number of states are stepping up to increase the number of patients abortion providers are able to see.
By Lisa Needham - March 29, 2022‘For far too long, members of tribal nations and Native communities have faced unnecessary burdens when they attempt to exercise their sacred right to vote,’ the White House said.
By Associated Press - March 26, 2022The Missouri Republican has been falsely attacking Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson for ‘lenient sentencing’ in sex crime cases.
By Josh Israel - March 24, 2022So much for treating the first Black woman nominated for the Supreme Court with respect.
By Josh Israel - March 23, 2022Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) didn’t object to the Supreme Court nominee’s record when he voted to confirm her earlier nominations to the federal bench.
By Emily Singer - March 22, 2022But Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee objected to any policy questions for Amy Coney Barrett in 2020.
By Josh Israel - March 22, 2022Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn claimed he hadn’t seen the data that shows Medicaid expansion saves lives.
By Lisa Needham - March 21, 2022Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin called the quick confirmation process ‘a contemporary standard.’
By Associated Press - March 05, 2022Today’s cartoon from Clay Jones.
By Clay Jones - February 28, 2022Jackson would be the current court’s second Black justice and just the third in history.
By Associated Press - February 26, 2022The Supreme Court will soon hear a case that could ‘eviscerate the EPA’s ability to implement the Clean Air Act to protect our environment.’
By Sarah Lipton-Lubet - February 25, 2022Senate Republicans led by Mitch McConnell rushed to appoint Trump Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett. They’re hoping for a much longer process under Biden.
By Josh Israel - February 25, 2022Rep. Terri Sewell was elected in 2010 as the first Black congresswoman from Alabama.
By Associated Press - February 20, 2022According to GOP lawmakers, nominating a Black woman to the court would simply be filling ‘quotas.’
By Josh Israel - January 31, 2022Some things to know about the women seen as leading candidates.
By Associated Press - January 30, 2022President Joe Biden is using his choice to fulfill one of his early campaign promises.
By Associated Press - January 29, 2022Justice Stephen Breyer has not yet even formally announced his retirement.
By Josh Israel - January 27, 2022‘I want kids to do this intentionally, to think that this is a requirement of living almost, that trying to figure out how they will make a better world should be a part of the charge of their living,’ said U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
By Associated Press - January 23, 2022Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in her dissent that the majority’s ruling allows Texas ‘yet again to extend the deprivation of the federal constitutional rights of its citizens.’
By Lisa Needham - January 21, 2022Planned Parenthood, which accounts for about half of California’s abortion clinics, said it served 7,000 people from other states last year.
By Associated Press - December 09, 2021Conservative Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett have both said their personal opinions wouldn’t affect their decisions on laws concerning abortion. But their comments during a recent hearing are telling a different story.
By Associated Press - December 03, 2021