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Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — While experts and advocacy groups applauded the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Thursday to not restrict nationwide access to the abortion pill mifepristone, they warn access to medication abortion remains at risk — as does the very foundation of the Food and Drug Administration’s regulation of all medications. The court […]
joe daniel price/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro must report to prison on Tuesday as scheduled, after the Supreme Court on Monday denied the stay of his sentence. Chief Justice John Roberts, in a short opinion, wrote that he saw “no reason to disagree” with lower courts, which also rejected […]
Rudy Sulgan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday said it would consider the appeal of former President Donald Trump’s disqualification from the Colorado GOP primary ballot. Moving with relative speed in matter that could prove consequential in the 2024 presidential election, the justices set oral arguments for Thursday, Feb. 8. Trump’s team […]
Ryan McGinnis/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In June, the Supreme Court all but closed the door on the use of race-conscious college admissions, touching off major changes in higher education. Education advocates said they believe the decision, while dismaying, puts a new “spotlight” on the value of historically Black colleges and universities, or HBCUs, for Black […]
ABC News (MITCHELVILLE, S.C.) — The wooded and marshy northern tip of Hilton Head Island in South Carolina is home to a little-known symbol of freedom whose legacy, advocates say, hangs in the balance before the U.S. Supreme Court. “If you don’t have the people, you don’t have the culture,” said Taiwan Scott, a 47-year-old […]
Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday temporarily blocked Purdue Pharma’s plan to emerge from bankruptcy that shielded the founding Sackler families from liability in the nation’s opioid epidemic. The application for a stay, brought by the U.S. Department of Justice, was presented to Justice Sonia Sotomayor and […]
Catherine McQueen/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — LGBTQ+ advocates, and the dissenting Supreme Court judges, fear the recent Supreme Court ruling on free speech has opened the door to encourage discrimination. The Supreme Court ruled on Friday in favor of an evangelical Christian website designer in a case involving whether businesses can refuse to do services […]
Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Supreme Court decision on Tuesday rejecting a theory that would grant state legislatures broad authority to unilaterally craft and enforce election laws has little impact on the actual issue that sparked the case — North Carolina’s House map. The state Legislature, controlled by Republicans and able to […]
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