Supreme Court takes abortion case that could end free speech for doctors
The case puts access to health care at risk — but that’s not all.
By Lisa Needham - February 23, 2021The case puts access to health care at risk — but that’s not all.
By Lisa Needham - February 23, 2021The Manhattan district attorney is seeking eight years of Donald Trump’s personal and corporate tax records.
By Associated Press - February 22, 2021One possibility is that the specter of having to testify in court about his actions on Jan. 6 could be enough to keep Donald Trump from running in the first place.
By Associated Press - February 18, 2021President Joe Biden is keeping his campaign promise to create a commission to study judicial reform.
By Josh Israel - January 29, 2021Civil rights organizations say the order is a ‘huge deal,’ but more needs to be done to ensure protections last beyond one administration.
By Casey Quinlan - January 21, 2021People who want a medication abortion will once again have to go in person — during a pandemic.
By Lisa Needham - January 14, 2021Abortion rights victories are getting more and more tenuous in the hands of the conservative Supreme Court.
By Lisa Needham - January 13, 2021Lawsuits filed by Trump and his cronies may still be around for months.
By Amy Lieu - January 12, 2021The entire judicial process highlights just how tenuous abortion access is in states like Arkansas.
By Lisa Needham - December 23, 2020Rep. Dan Newhouse now says the amicus declaring Biden’s wins ‘unconstitutional’ was not intended to change the results.
By Josh Israel - December 21, 2020Conservatives say that Amy Coney Barrett’s appointment to the court has made the recent rulings blocking COVID safety restrictions possible.
By Donna Provencher - December 15, 2020The virulently racist Trump aide told a bunch of lies in unhinged ‘Fox & Friends’ interview.
By Emily Singer - December 14, 2020The Michigan Statehouse was forced to close, while Arizona increased security at its state capitol building on the day the Electoral College will affirm Biden’s victory.
By Emily Singer - December 14, 2020Trump and the Republicans have lost again — again.
By Associated Press - December 11, 2020It looks like the anti-democratic lawsuit from Texas’ attorney general falls apart under even the thinnest of scrutiny.
By Emily Singer - December 11, 2020Despite their oath to uphold the Constitution, these Republican lawmakers are hoping to disenfranchise tens of millions of citizens.
By Josh Israel - December 10, 2020Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro called Texas’ lawsuit seeking to invalidate its results ‘seditious,’ ‘inexcusable,’ and ‘indefensible.’
By Emily Singer - December 10, 2020Nine of the attendees support overturning the results in four states President-elect Joe Biden won.
By Emily Singer - December 10, 2020The 17 states’ attorneys general filed a brief supporting Texas’ lawsuit seeking to nullify election results in four states Joe Biden won.
By Emily Singer - December 09, 2020The lawsuit filed by Ken Paxton is doomed to fail, elections experts say.
By Emily Singer - December 08, 2020And the 6-3 supermajority of anti-abortion justices on the Supreme Court could help them.
By Lisa Needham - November 30, 2020No president has tried to remove millions of noncitizens from the head count of the U.S. population. Trump signaled in July that he will.
By Associated Press - November 30, 2020Same-sex parents’ rights could be under attack if the court takes up Box v. Henderson.
By Casey Quinlan - November 25, 2020Two judges for the 11th Circuit struck down laws that prohibit the harmful practice of ‘conversion therapy.’
By Casey Quinlan - November 20, 2020As of now, 10 states have ‘trigger laws’ that will automatically make abortion illegal if Roe v. Wade is overturned.
By Lisa Needham - November 20, 2020The sitting Supreme Court justice spoke at a convention of the partisan right-wing Federalist Society.
By Casey Quinlan - November 13, 2020The court’s attacks on reproductive rights won’t make abortion go away, but they could make them much less safe.
By Lisa Needham - November 08, 2020A new report indicates Mitch McConnell would go as far as blocking Biden’s Cabinet nominees.
By Emily Singer - November 05, 2020The Trump administration has urged the Supreme Court to side with Catholic Social Services and against LGBTQ foster parents.
By Associated Press - November 05, 2020Millions have lost their insurance under Trump so far.
By Amy Lieu - October 30, 2020