• MSNBC

    Maddow on Supreme Court abortion pill arguments: ‘Frightening Supreme Court is even hearing this’

    The Supreme Court heard arguments challenging access to the abortion pill Mifepristone. Rachel Maddow joins Joy Reid to discuss.

    • CNN

    Ex-Supreme Court justice details his frustrations about Dobbs decision

    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.

  • Breyer indicates support for age limits for Supreme Court Justices

    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

  • WA Supreme Court: Passing the bar no longer required to be a lawyer

    (The Center Square) – Passing the the bar exam will no longer be a requirement for becoming a lawyer in Washington, the state Supreme Court ruled in a pair of orders Friday. Washington becomes only the second state to officially approve alternatives to the bar, following its southern neighbor, Oregon, which is set to make the change in May. The state Supreme Court appointed a Bar Licensure Task Force to study alternative ways to show competency in 2020, after...

  • Washington passes ‘strippers’ bill of rights’ increasing protections for adult entertainers

    Gov. Inslee signed the bill on Monday, allowing adult entertainment spaces to apply for liquor licenses.

  • Supreme Court justices question 'conscience objections' in abortion pill case

    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...

    • DVIDS

    State Legislature passes trio of bills supporting Guard members and families

    The Washington state Legislature took important action this legislative session to help the Washington National Guard recruit and retain members.

  • Supreme Court allows controversial Texas immigration bill to go into effect

    The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed a controversial Texas immigration law to go into effect while other legal challenges play out in lower courts. The law allows local Texas law enforcement to arrest people suspected of crossing the border illegally, and judges to prosecute them - actions that were previously understood to be under the jurisdiction of the federal government. Ed O'Keefe reports.

  • Atlantic Magazine Begs Justice Sonia Sotomayor to Retire from Supreme Court

    Imagine being not yet seventy years old and being told, not exactly politely, that in the interest of liberalism you have to be put out to pasture. When that message went out to Justice Stephen Breyer in 2021, he was at least over eighty when the leftists told him his time was up on the Supreme Court. With Justice Sonia Sotomayor, despite being over ten years younger than Breyer when he retired, Josh Barro writing for The Atlantic announced that it was time for her to withdraw in the interest of...

  • Atlantic Magazine Begs Justice Sonia Sotomayor to Retire from Supreme Court

    Imagine being not yet seventy years old and being told, not exactly politely, that in the interest of liberalism you have to be put out to pasture. When that message went out to Justice Stephen Breyer in 2021, he was at least over eighty when the leftists told him his time was up on the Supreme Court. With Justice Sonia Sotomayor, despite being over ten years younger than Breyer when he retired, Josh Barro writing for The Atlantic announced that it was time for her to withdraw in the interest of...

  • Justice Breyer, Off the Bench, Sounds an Alarm Over the Supreme Court’s Direction

    Justice Stephen G. Breyer’s Supreme Court chambers are not quite as grand as those he occupied before he retired in 2022, but they are still pretty nice. As before, they include a working fireplace, which was crackling when I went to visit him on a temperate afternoon in late February to talk about his new book. In earlier interviews, Justice Breyer could be rambling and opaque. This time he was direct. He said he meant to sound an alarm about the direction of the Supreme Court. “Something...

  • Kentucky House passes bill to have more teens tried in adult courts for gun offenses

    FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Legislation intended to prosecute more Kentucky teenagers on gun-related felony charges in adult courts where they could face harsher penalties moved closer Tuesday to clearing the legislature. The bill passed the House on a 68-19 vote and now returns to the Senate, where it could receive a final vote if senators accept the changes made by the House. Senate Bill 20 is part of a broader push by the Republican-dominated legislature to toughen penalties for a range of crimes....