The Supreme Court handed down a brief order on Tuesday allowing an unconstitutional Texas state immigration law to go into effect. The case is known as United States v. Texas. Though this order is temporary, the result is shocking. Texas’s law, which allows state officials to arrest migrants and state courts to order them deported to Mexico, violates 150 years of settled law establishing that the federal government, and not the states, gets to decide which foreign nationals may enter or remain...
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 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.
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
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...
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...
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 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...
Planned Parenthood CEO Alexis McGill Johnson was inside the courtroom during the Supreme Court abortion pill case oral arguments. She joins CNN’s Phil Mattingly to discuss and share what she saw.
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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 U.S. Supreme Court signaled Tuesday it likely would retain widespread access to one of the two common drugs used in medication abortion, in a case that could have nationwide implications for re