Former Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer talks with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer about the decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade and how he thinks this move could have affected the future of the court.
Repealing the Comstock Act — the Victorian-era anti-vice law that anti-abortion lobbyists aim to use to ban abortion nationwide, even in states where abortion rights are protected — has just turned from an urgent question to an absolute necessity. And it’s all thanks to the Supreme Court. Oral arguments at the court Tuesday morning suggested the court was likely to side with the White House in its appeal of lower court rulings restricting access to the abortion medication mifepristone. But...
The Supreme Court on Monday continued to block, for now, a Texas law that would give police broad powers to arrest migrants suspected of illegally entering the U.S. while the legal battle it sparked over immigration authority plays out.
Former Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer called out some of his prior colleagues on the high court over their approach to the law on Monday and specifically criticized the Dobbs decision. The former justice sat for an interview with The New York Times about his new book, "Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism," and said, "The Dobbs majority’s hope that legislatures and not courts will decide the abortion question will not be realized." He told the media outlet that...
The Supreme Court heard arguments challenging access to the abortion pill Mifepristone. Rachel Maddow joins Joy Reid to discuss.
Former Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer said Sunday that he would back age limits for justices, claiming the controversial policy would have helped his own decision-making about his retirement
It is obviously un-American for the government to develop a 'hit list' of citizens to mute in the public square through secret pressure on communications monopolies.
Everything important passed by the Legislature came after court gained a liberal majority.
A historic decision on Amazon driver classification has been handed down in Wisconsin. The Associated Press reports: “The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday let stand a lower court ruling that declared some delivery drivers for Amazon were employees as the state argued, not independent contractors as the online retail giant contended. The court, in a unanimous decision,… Source
WASHINGTON — A Supreme Court rejection of a challenge to abortion pill mifepristone could hinge on how the justices assess "conscience objections" raised by doctors who do not wish to treat patients suffering from complications after taking the drug. The court signaled during Tuesday's argument that it could conclude that the plaintiffs — seven named doctors and associated anti-abortion groups — do not have legal standing to bring the lawsuit in part because their conscience objection arguments...
Justice Samuel Alito implied that mifepristone—one of the two drugs used in medication abortion, which the Supreme Court will decide whether or not to restrict in what has been billed as “the biggest abortion case since Dobbs“—may cause “very serious harm.” But there’s just one problem: more than 100 scientific studies show that abortion pills […]
An advisory opinion on the responsibilities of countries regarding climate change will be made by the International Court of Justice. While the opinion will be non-binding, it could have far-reaching