The former president has boasted about ending the 1973 Supreme Court ruling — guaranteeing federal abortion protections for all women — many times.
After Republican-appointed justices on the Arizona Supreme Court cleared the way for a 160-year-old near-total abortion ban to take effect, more than a few GOP officials ran for cover. This wasn’t surprising: The Arizona law will have some fans on the far-right, but with the American mainstream, it’ll be politically radioactive. It was against this backdrop that Sen. Joni Ernst appeared on Fox Business and was asked for her reaction. The Iowa Republican replied: Right off the bat, it’s worth...
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear a case that could impact the 2024 presidential election and lead to the release of or reduction in sentences for hundreds of January 6 rioters.
Donald Trump says an Arizona law that criminalizes nearly all abortions goes too far and the former president called on Arizona lawmakers to change it.
German Cardinal Gerhard Müller, who is slated to speak at the event, said the Belgian police’s actions resembled that of ‘Nazi Germany.’
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., says it is 'time to put an end to this nonsense'
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Texas Supreme Court Justice John Devine is facing new questions about his impartiality after a clip went viral this week in which he implied that Democrats plan to cheat against presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in the 2024 election.
Justice John Devine’s comments at a conservative event are the latest to prompt concerns about his impartiality
Republican presumptive nominee struggles to articulate position on divisive issue after meeting with House speakerFacing the press alongside the House speaker, fellow Republican Mike Johnson, Donald Trump bragged: “We broke Roe v Wade.”The former president made the stark admission about his dominant role in attacks on abortion rights at the end of a week in which the rightwing Arizona state supreme court ruled that an 1864 law imposing a near-total ban could go back into effect. Continue...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Sen. Rick Scott of Florida this week joined the ranks of Republican incumbents scrambling to strike a balance on reproductive rights, saying he opposes a November ballot initiative to strike down his state's six-week abortion ban but thinks Congress should leave those decisions to the states. Scott, who is seeking reelection this fall, was one of multiple senators who followed former President Donald Trump's lead in softening GOP messaging on abortion. It comes in...
On Monday, traffic stalled in San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle and New York as protesters blocked roads to call for a cease-fire in Gaza.
The Supreme Court handed down a strange set of opinions on Monday evening, which accompanied a decision that largely reinstates Idaho’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors. The ban was previously blocked by a lower court. None of the opinions in Labrador v. Poe spend much time discussing whether such a ban is constitutional — although Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s concurring opinion does contain some language suggesting that he and Justice Amy Coney Barrett will ultimately vote to uphold the...