In states with “trigger” laws, abortion services came to a halt on Friday morning as news rippled through clinic lobbies and patients, whose appointments were minutes outside of the window to receive care, had to be turned away.
The right-wing supermajority on the Court is the result of a movement determined to seize power at any cost. It's time to critically assess and reconfigure the Court’s role in our society. Our democracy depends on it.
Voter suppression, gerrymandering, and campaign finance loopholes have resulted in a decision at odds with the will of the people.
The reality is that abortion pills will be available to people in the United States — no matter what the Supreme Court does and regardless of whether states give permission.
New polling shows 61% of Americans support a congressional investigation into the Supreme Court justice's potential conflicts of interest.
“Innocence is not enough” are words to chill your heart. Janine Jackson interviewed Liliana Segura about a Supreme Court death penalty case for the 6/3/22 episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.
With three decisions this month, the Court could break the back of Washington’s authority over regulation. Then, the battles over some of America’s biggest issues shift to the states.
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Law professor Darrell Miller forecasts a “radical change” in the law concerning Second Amendment gun rights coming from the Court’s conservative justices.
If Alito gets his way — and there is no reason to think he won’t — the Supreme Court will increasingly be a religious censor: keeping women in their lane, imposing "Christian rights," and preventing uppity scientists from getting their wicked way.
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