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The Texas Supreme Court has blocked a lower court order that had allowed clinics in the state to continue performing abortions even after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned its landmark 1973 ruling that confirmed a constitutional right to abortion.

The Supreme Court on Monday ruled for doctors who face criminal charges for overprescribing powerful pain medication in a case arising from the opioid addiction crisis. Justice Stephen Breyer wrote for the court that prosecutors must prove that doctors knew they were illegally prescribing powerful pain drugs in violation of the federal Controlled Substances Act. The ruling came as the…

Judges have temporarily blocked abortion bans in Louisiana and Utah, while a federal court in South Carolina said a law sharply restricting the procedure would take effect there immediately. The decisions emerged as the battle over whether women may end pregnancies shifted from the nation’s highest court to courthouses around the country. The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Friday to end...

From 1973-2022, here’s a look at how Roe v. Wade has developed throughout the years.

The Supreme Court issued a decision Friday overturning Roe v. Wade, wiping the constitutional right to an abortion.

The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade. Friday’s outcome is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.

The Supreme Court has ruled that religious schools can’t be excluded from a Maine program that offers tuition aid for private education.

Progressive prosecutors around the U.S. are declaring they won’t enforce some of the most restrictive and punitive anti-abortion laws that GOP-led states have waited years to implement.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked a Texas law that would restrict the ability of popular social media companies to control the content of their own sites. Under the law, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and other sites would be unable to block content based on its viewpoint. Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, said the law was a response to “a…

Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and a conservative political activist, urged Republican lawmakers in Arizona after the 2020 presidential election to choose their own slate of electors, arguing that results giving Joe Biden a victory in the state were marred by fraud. The revelations first published by The Washington Post on Friday show that Thomas…

The U.S. Supreme Court resurrected a lawsuit over the ownership of a French painting that a Jewish woman surrendered to the Nazis.

“I knew since 11 years old that I always wanted to become a lawyer,” said Quinnipiac University student and Black Law Students Association Vice President Fontaine Chambers. Advocacy is something Chambers said she’s always been passionate about. She said seeing the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was a moment of pure joy and excitement. “The mere existence of her…

With Collins’ vote, Jackson, Biden’s first nominee to the Supreme Court, is now all but guaranteed to become the first Black woman to serve on the high court.

The Democratic-controlled Congress is turning up the heat on Justice Clarence Thomas with calls for him to step back from cases involving Jan. 6, after his wife was found to have actively pressured the Trump White House to change the result of the 2020 election based on false claims of fraud. At a closed-door meeting Tuesday, House Democrats raised questions about what they could do...

The request followed news that the justice’s wife, Virginia Thomas, urged then-President Trump’s top aide Mark Meadows to try to overturn Biden’s election win.

Texts reportedly showed Thomas urging then-President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, to try to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory.

Shortly after the 2020 election, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the conservative activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, sent an email to an aide to a prominent House conservative saying she would have nothing to do with his group until his members go “out in the streets,” a congressional source familiar with the exchange told NBC News. Thomas told an...

Democrats on Friday called on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from Jan. 6 related cases after it was revealed that his wife had texted White House chief of staff Mark Meadows urging him to challenge Donald Trump’s election loss. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said in light of reports of text messages traded between Ginni Thomas and Meadows after...

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., announced Friday he plans to vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, praising her “exemplary” record and career and labeling her “supremely qualified” to be a justice. The centrist Democrat’s support gives Jackson’s nomination a major boost after four days of contentious hearings, all but assuring her historic confirmation to be the...

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was discharged from the hospital, a week after being admitted with an infection.