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Congress should stand up for what’s right and "legally bribed politicians" isn’t that: it's time to end the bribery & get something done for the people, for a change

We reject the efforts of legislators in states across the country to abolish the right to make one’s own decisions regarding their bodies, their health care, their families and their futures

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About six-in-ten Americans say abortion should be legal in all or most cases.

This morning, as the Supreme Court heard the most serious challenge to abortion rights in decades, Justice Sonia Sotomayor delivered a stirring series of questions challenging the attempt to upend a person’s right to choose to terminate a pregnancy.

It’s never a good look when Americans must rely on Russian hackers to see who’s influencing our Supreme Court.

Each of the three trials dominating the news this month features armed citizens taking up weapons to travel to public spaces where they believed themselves to be under threat.

Medieval weapons laws, including a 1328 English statute prohibiting the public carry of edged weapons without royal permission, are at the center of dueling legal opinions in the most important gun rights before the Supreme Court since 2008.

The case, brought by Republican-led states and coal companies, could frustrate the Biden administration’s efforts to address climate change. This is the equivalent of an earthquake around the country for those who care deeply about the climate issue