Tuesday's Democratic primary for one of three contested seats on the Ohio Supreme Court will kick off a high-stakes battle for partisan control of the court this fall. The court, which currently has a 4-3 Republican majority, holds sway over how to implement an amendment to the state constitution protecting abortion rights that voters overwhelmingly approved last year. Ohio is one of 33 states with supreme court races this year and among the few where voters have an opportunity to flip partisan...
The Supreme Court heard arguments challenging access to the abortion pill Mifepristone. Rachel Maddow joins Joy Reid to discuss.
The Biden administration’s legal battle over social media content moderation will reach the Supreme Court on Monday, when the justices are set to hear arguments over whether federal officials violated the First Amendment by urging platforms to remove posts they deemed false or misleading. Two Republican attorneys general brought the case in a challenge to []
The Biden administration’s legal battle over social media content moderation will reach the Supreme Court on Monday, when the justices are set to hear arguments over whether federal officials violated the First Amendment by urging platforms to remove posts they deemed false or misleading. Two Republican attorneys general brought the case in a challenge to
Americans overwhelmingly support mifepristone remaining available. And even merely restricting it could reverberate hugely -- at a time when the GOP would rather ignore such issues.
President Joe Biden‘s campaign is underscoring the importance of abortion access before the Supreme Court hears oral arguments Tuesday in a case to decide whether to restrict access to one of the two drugs required to terminate a pregnancy chemically. Biden campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez described the Supreme Court case, Food and Drug Administration […]
The justices will hear arguments Tuesday on whether to limit access to a medication used in more than 60 percent of abortions in the United States.
Louisiana lawyer faced tough questions from liberal and conservative justices.
In today’s edition Baltimore’s Key Bridge collapses after being struck by a ship Biden-Netanyahu rift grows, as Israel cancels visit by delegation.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for Texas to immediately begin enforcing a controversial immigration law that allows state officials to arrest and detain people they suspect of entering the country illegally. The court’s three liberals dissented. Legal challenges to the law are ongoing at a federal appeals court, but the decision hands a significant – yet temporary – win to Texas, which has been in an ongoing battle with the Biden administration over immigration policy. The court...
President Joe Biden unveiled another round in his steady drip of student debt write-offs on Thursday, announcing that 78,000 public sector workers would not have to repay $6 billion in loans. “From day one of my administration, I promised to fix broken student loan programs and make sure higher education is a ticket to the middle […]
Can the federal government flex its muscle to influence censorship policies at social media firms? If so, how much? What if national security is at risk? And what if some of the censored speech turns out to be accurate? Those were among the questions the Supreme Court weighed as it heard arguments on March 18 […]