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A Bad Year for Drag Queen Foes

New anti-drag laws were deemed unconstitutional in every state where they were challenged this year.

Reason

What's at Stake in the Supreme Court's Abortion Pill Case

The Court announced today that it would take up a case involving access to the abortion-inducing drug mifepristone.

Reason

Supreme Court will hear abortion drug challenge in first major post-Roe case

Justices will hear arguments to the first major challenge to abortion rights since striking down a constitutional right to abortion care last year

The Independent UK

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The Supreme Court will rule on limits on a commonly used abortion medication

The Supreme Court has agreed to take up a dispute over a medication used in the most common method of abortion in the United States

The Independent UK

Gun Hobbyists (and Liberty) Win Big in Court

Fifth Circuit judges slap the ATF for making up illegal rules against homemade guns.

Reason

Texas executes Brent Brewer, who spent three decades on death row, for murder of Amarillo man

Brewer lost a clemency appeal earlier this week, despite one of his jurors pleading that his life be spared and an expert witness’ methods put into question. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to pause Brewer’s execution Thursday afternoon to hear arguments about the “junk science” used against him.

The Texas Tribune

Appeals court considers whether Texas teens should be allowed contraception without parental consent under federal program

Last year, Judge Matthew Kacmsaryk closed off one of the only avenues for Texas teens to get confidential contraception. The 5th Circuit on Monday considered arguments in the case.

The Texas Tribune

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State attorneys general appeal challenge to labor department’s ESG rule

Economy and Society is Ballotpedia’s weekly review of the developments in corporate activism; corporate political engagement; and the environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) trends and events that characterize the growing intersection between business and politics.

Ballotpedia

Chevron meets ESG

The Checks and Balances Letter delivers news and information from Ballotpedia’s Administrative State Project, including pivotal actions at the federal and state levels related to the separation of powers, due process, and the rule of law.

Ballotpedia

Federal Judge Rules Texas Anti-Drag Law Violates the First Amendment

The judge ruled that the law was unconstitutionally overbroad, vague, and viewpoint discrimination.

Reason

Federal judge sides with West Texas A&M University president who canceled campus drag show

U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk ruled that the student fundraiser featuring drag performers was not protected, raising the stakes for a battle over First Amendment rights and drag shows.

The Texas Tribune

Federal judge rules Texas university that canceled drag show didn't violate free speech rights

A federal judge has ruled that a university in the Texas Panhandle did not violate the constitutional right to free speech when the school’s president canceled a drag show earlier this year

The Independent UK

Federal Judge Declines To Stop Drag Show Ban at Texas College

The judge ruled that drag performances are not inherently expressive and that schools could regulate "vulgar and lewd" conduct.

Reason

Appeals Court Rules in Much-Anticipated Abortion Pills Case

Plus: Court urged to stop Arkansas' social media age verification law from taking effect in September, legalizing medical marijuana linked to lower insurance premiums, and more...

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Chicago Sun-Times

An appeals court backs some abortion drug limits, pending the Supreme Court’s approval

A federal appeals panel upholds a lower-court ruling banning mail-order delivery of mifepristone and allows its use only through the seventh week of pregnancy. The ruling won’t take effect until the high court weighs in.

The Independent UK

Some abortion drug restrictions are upheld by an appeals court in a case bound for the Supreme Court

New restrictions on access to a drug used in the most common form of abortion would be imposed under a federal appeals court ruling

The Independent UK

Texas wants Planned Parenthood to repay millions of dollars

Texas wants Planned Parenthood to give back millions of dollars in Medicaid reimbursements and pay far more in fines on top of that

The Texas Tribune

Part 3: Under Trump, Texas’ foot soldiers became federal judges, securing a conservative stronghold in the courts

A federal judiciary full of ideological allies is helping Texas block Democratic priorities and advance right-wing legal doctrines. But the bigger prize is conservative control of the rule of law itself.

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Axios

Federal health care rulings highlight court shopping

The practice of court shopping has gained recognition due to the recent abortion pill case.

Los Angeles Times

Michael Hiltzik: Conservative attacks on abortion depend on a law that courts have snubbed for 100 years

Nothing reflects that show-stopping lyric "everything old is new again" like the tactics of the antiabortion movement — specifically, its reliance on a long-discredited 1873 law to eviscerate women's healthcare rights in the modern age.

WEKU

The abortion pill mifepristone has another day in federal court

While a Supreme Court order continues to ensure the drug is still widely available, the issue returned Wednesday to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals as lawyers for both sides urged the court to act.

Axios

Federal appeals court seems skeptical of FDA's abortion pill approval

The court is likely to issue a final decision in the coming weeks.

The Independent UK

Abortion pill case moves to appeals court, on track for Supreme Court

A federal appeals court in New Orleans hears arguments Wednesday on whether a drug used in the most common method of abortion was properly approved by a government agency more than two decades ago

Axios

Scoop: Planned Parenthood calls for major judicial reform

Planned Parenthood's calls for judicial reform come as a federal court is set to hear a case on abortion pills this week.

The Conversation

An obscure 1800s law is shaping up to be the center of the next abortion battle – legal scholars explain what's behind the Victorian-era Comstock Act

Anti-abortion groups are looking for new ways to wage their battle against abortion rights, eyeing the potential implications of a 150-year-old law, the Comstock Act, that could effectively lead to a nationwide abortion ban.

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