The nine Supreme Court justices have a major question before them. Is a current or former president immune from prosecution? Former President Donald Trump is Read More
The justices must decide whether Idaho doctors can terminate a pregnancy to save a woman’s health or only if her life is at riskThe supreme court heard its second abortion rights case of the term on Wednesday, this one focused on how states can regulate emergency abortions – exceedingly rare procedures that often save a woman’s life or her future fertility.The case may seem technical because it focuses on a small subset of emergency abortions and federal law that governs emergency room care....
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Wednesday that will inform what could arguably be the court's most consequential abortion ruling since it upended 50 years of abortion policy in the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health decision. Yet fresh polling conducted in seven battleground states by Navigator Research shows that 97% of likely voters know very little about the 40-year-old federal law that lies at the heart of the legal battle—the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. Often...
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Tuesday on the question of whether prosecutors overreached in charging J6 defendants with obstructing the counting of electoral ballots.
The Supreme Court heard its latest post-Dobbs abortion argument Wednesday. The case with national implications stems from Idaho’s near-total ban, which conflicts with a federal law protecting emergency medical care. The promise of that federal law, U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar told the justices, is the “simple but profound” one that nobody “who comes to an emergency room in need of urgent treatment should be denied necessary stabilizing care. This case is about how that guarantee...
A divided Supreme Court seemed skeptical that Idaho’s strict abortion ban conflicts with a federal emergency care law, but there appeared to be a split by gender as well as ideology during the near
The Supreme Court hears arguments in Idaho vs U.S. relating to the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. Justices will decide whether a federal law requiring hospitals care for life-threatening cases means ER doctors in states with abortion bans must terminate pregnancies in certain circumstances.
Just weeks after the Supreme Court ended the Constitutional right to an abortion in the summer of 2022, Mylissa Farmer arrived at a hospital in Joplin, Missouri after her water broke at about 18 weeks pregnant. The doctors agreed that the fetus had no chance of survival and that she needed to end her pregnancy […]
The Supreme Court's conservative justices signaled support on Thursday for U.S. presidents having some level of protection from criminal charges for certain acts taken in office as it tackled Donald Trump's claim of immunity from prosecution for trying to undo his 2020 election loss. During about 2-1/2 hours of arguments
Idaho’s law requires doctors to treat pregnant women’s health as disposable – and the loss of their lives as an acceptable riskThe risk of stating plainly what Idaho argued at the US supreme court on Wednesday morning is that it is so sadistic and extreme that people might not believe you. Idaho has one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the country. Prohibiting all abortions at any stage of gestation, with no exceptions for rape or incest, the Idaho law allows doctors to perform abortions...
By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press Action in courts and state capitals around the U.S. this week have made it clear again: The overturning of Roe v. Wade and the nationwide right to abortion did not settle the issue. One iteration of the issue was back before the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday for the second
By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press Action in courts and state capitals around the U.S. this week have made it clear again: The overturning of Roe v. Wade and the nationwide right to abortion did not settle the issue. One iteration of the issue was back before the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday for the second