Reproductive rights are under siege after the leaking of a Supreme Court draft opinion threatening to overturn Roe v. Wade. Obtained by Politico on May 4, the 98-page draft opinion — written by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito — reportedly has the majority support needed to overturn Roe. Should conservative …
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President Biden has nominated federal judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to fill the Supreme Court seat of retiring Justice Stephen Breyer. Appearing alongside Jackson at the White House on Friday, Biden described his nominee as a jurist with a “uniquely accomplished and wide-ranging background.” If confirmed, he said, Jackson “will bring …
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Back in 1966 — seven years before the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade — Mississippi was the first state in the nation to legalize abortion for victims of rape. Up until the early 1980s, when state legislators embarked on a campaign to shutter them via a series of increasingly …
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WASHINGTON —In the fall of 1981, a young conservative lawyer named John Roberts, fresh off a Supreme Court clerkship, arrived at the Justice Department at the start of Ronald Reagan’s presidency. Hired as a special assistant to the attorney general, Roberts focused on voting rights, and in particular the battle …
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WASHINGTON — It was a ritual of the modern Republican Party. House and Senate hopefuls locked in a tough reelection fight, outside consultants who wanted to refill their campaign coffers, presidential wannabes who dreamt of being the next commander-in-chief — they all made the pilgrimage to Las Vegas, and specifically …
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As the country grieves the loss of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, I’m reflecting on the time before she was the Notorious RBG, before the court, before the collars. When she was just Ruth. She took care of a toddler, and a husband battling cancer, while in law school, …
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At a JW Marriott hotel a few blocks from the White House last January, Denise Burke, a cheerful-looking 52-year old woman with wispy blond hair and a lopsided smile, explained to attendees of the 2018 Evangelicals For Life conference exactly how she and her colleagues intended to make abortion illegal …
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