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Man admits to choking murder of estranged wife

A Melbourne man has admitted to the murder of his estranged wife on the morning a jury was to be empanelled for his Supreme Court trial.

AAP

Clarence Thomas reported thousands of dollars in income from real estate company that doesn’t exist anymore

The SCOTUS member is under scrutiny for financial disclosures after his relationship with GOP megadonor Harlan Crow was revealed

The Independent UK

Across the country, abortion rights advocates rally in support of abortion pill access

A judge in Texas issued a ruling that could severely restrict mifepristone access in the U.S., making the future of a drug used in about half of American abortions uncertain.

WEKU

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Dallas judge would be first Latina on 5th Circuit appeals court with Biden nomination

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden has picked a longtime federal magistrate in Dallas for the influential 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Tribune News Service

Supreme Court's Alito halts abortion drug restrictions through Wednesday

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court temporarily paused through at least Wednesday a court order that would have restricted a commonly used abortion drug nationwide in a brief order issued Friday afternoon.

Tribune News Service

U.S. Supreme Court temporarily restores access to abortion pill

The five-day administrative stay from Justice Samuel Alito gives the Supreme Court time to consider the case next week.

The Texas Tribune

Supreme Court preserves FDA rules for access to abortion pill – but only temporarily

The decision that overturned the FDA’s approval of mifepristone is on hold as the nation’s high court considers the case

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Court rejects governor's move to dismiss public records suit

The Iowa Supreme Court has refused to dismiss a lawsuit against Gov. Kim Reynolds that seeks to require her office to respond to public record requests

The Independent UK

Anti-mifepristone court decisions rely on medical misinformation about abortion and questionable legal reasoning

An early April 2023 decision by a U.S. district judge in Texas to reverse 23 years of approval of the abortion pill mifepristone has sparked explosive debate.

The Conversation

Biden to nominate Texas judge to be first Latina on federal appeals court

Both of Texas’ Republican senators voice support for Irma Carrillo Ramirez’s nomination to the conservative 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The Texas Tribune

Ivy League schools are not above compensating their student-athletes fairly. A new lawsuit could end that special status

Ivy League schools have long refused to offer athletic scholarships. A new case is challenging that status quo.

Fortune

Biden administration asks US supreme court to halt abortion pill restrictions

Limits slated to go into effect at 12.01am Saturday following lower court’s order revoking the FDA’s approval of mifepristone

The Guardian - US

Asking Clarence Thomas to testify in Senate could spark a showdown

WASHINGTON — Advocacy groups have urged the Senate Judiciary Committee to call Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to testify about his relationship with a billionaire GOP donor, a move experts say would escalate conflict between two branches of government and could lead to a separation-of-powers showdown.

Tribune News Service

DOJ, drugmaker ask SCOTUS to intervene in abortion drug case

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department and a pharmaceutical company on Friday asked the Supreme Court to intervene in the court fight over a commonly used abortion drug in order to keep a court ruling restricting availability of the drug from taking effect this weekend.

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The Independent UK

Supreme Court lets challenges to federal agencies go forward

The Supreme Court is allowing challenges to the structure of two federal agencies to go forward in federal court

Al Jazeera

US Supreme Court justice temporarily halts abortion pill curbs

Government says restrictions on mifepristone would deny people ‘lawful access’ to drug deemed safe by US regulators.

The Independent UK

Abortion advocates and providers brace for Supreme Court decision in major drug case: ‘Chaos, confusion, fear’

Clinics, drugmakers, legal groups and patients are anticipating a decision from the nation’s highest court as a legal challenge against a widely used abortion drug threatens to eliminate access for millions, Alex Woodward reports

WEKU

Supreme Court briefly puts on hold lower court's limits on abortion drug mifepristone

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has placed a hold on a lower court ruling that restricts access to the abortion drug mifepristone until Wednesday night.

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The Independent UK

Biden administration joins Supreme Court abortion pill appeal

Intervention comes after appeals court maintained approval for the drug but tightened access to it

Reason

U.S. Intelligence Leak Suspect Identified as 21-Year-Old Jack Teixeira

Plus: More secrecy from the Global Disinformation Index, the public awaits another big Supreme Court abortion decision, and more...

The Independent UK

Supreme Court asked to preserve abortion pill access rules

A drug manufacturer is asking the Supreme Court to preserve access to its abortion pill free from restrictions imposed by lower court rulings, while a legal fight continues

Reason

Against a Broad Reading of Title VII's Religious Accommodation Provision

A very interesting item by Adam Unikowsky, defending the Court's relatively narrow reading in TWA v. Hardison (1977) of the Title VII duty to grant religious exemptions from generally applicable work rules. The Court is now considering reversing that decision in Groff v. DeJoy; James Phillips guest-blogged here last month…

Salon

Thomas didn't disclose billionaire deal

The transaction is the first known instance of money flowing from Crow to the Supreme Court justice

Salon

The GOP's abortion albatross

They brought this on themselves

Roll Call

Supreme Court halts abortion drug case through Wednesday - Roll Call

The ruling comes after a federal judge in Texas suspended the FDA's 2000 approval of mifespristone, a drug used for medication abortions.

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