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Biden administration will ask Supreme Court to preserve full access to abortion pills

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Merrick Garland said Thursday that the Biden administration will ask the Supreme Court to preserve full and easy access to the abortion medication that has become the most-used method of ending early pregnancies.

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Supreme Court leaves student loan settlement in place

The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to block a settlement in a long-running suit involving the adjudication of applications for the cancellation of student loan debts at 151 for-profit colleges.

WEKU

How a Supreme Court case could decide the future of Canadian climate policy

On the heels of the latest United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report declaring a “rapidly closing window of opportunity” to secure a liveable future, the Supreme Court of Canada recently heard a case that could decide the future of Canadian climate policy.

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Supreme Court won't block $6B student debt relief settlement

The Supreme Court is allowing a roughly $6 billion legal settlement to go forward that will cancel student loans for hundreds of thousands of borrowers who say they were misled by their schools

The Independent UK

Biden administration to bring abortion pill case to Supreme Court

The decision comes shortly after an appeals court left numerous restrictions on abortion pill access in place.

Al Jazeera

The Unprecedented Judicial Move in the Texas Abortion Pill Decision

It’s not the FDA’s job to tell doctors what to do.

Reason

Justice Department to ask Supreme Court to intervene in abortion pill case

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Biden administration will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to protect the availability of a widely used abortion pill after a federal appeals court cleared the way for new restrictions to take effect Friday.

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Hayne 'remarkably' still on bail before judge jails him

Jarryd Hayne will be behind bars awaiting sentence on two counts of rape after the Supreme Court revoked his bail, finding no "special" reason to continue it.

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Thomas' gifts unprecedented in US judicial politics

Hayden Thorne breaks down the latest Clarence Thomas scandal and the problem of integrity in American politics

Newsroom.co.nz

Federal Court Halts Biden Administration's Clean Water Overreach

Hopefully the Supreme Court will soon put a permanent stop to the EPA's Clean Water Act land grab.

Reason

Justice Department will ask the Supreme Court to restore full access to abortion pill

The Justice Department is seeking emergency relief from the U.S. Supreme Court in a Texas case involving limited access to the abortion drug mifepristone.

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Darwin businessman Michael Anthony fails in bid to overturn pollution notice conviction

A Darwin developer and businessman who failed to comply with requests to remove 15,000 tonnes of construction waste from the Darwin Harbour loses a second attempt to appeal his conviction and $300,000 fine.

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Robin Abcarian: Hang on to the pill and your IUD. After abortion, birth control is the next fight

Mark my words: Contraception is the next front in the war on women. And we can't say we haven't been warned.

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: Supreme Court justices should report lavish trips. Even those with ‘dearest friends’

In an account that reads like an installment of “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,” ProPublica recently reported that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted luxury trips over more than two decades from Harlan Crow, a Texas real estate developer and prominent Republican donor. Among the excursions was a 2019…

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Members of Congress weigh in on court fight over abortion drug

WASHINGTON — A Louisiana-based federal appeals court could decide as soon as Wednesday the availability of the nation’s most used medication abortion drug, as members of Congress from both parties weighed in on a lower court ruling that would stop the manufacture and distribution of the drug this Saturday.

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What to know about the Comstock Act as abortion pill fight escalates

Anti-abortion groups have revived the centuries-old law.

Roll Call

Members of Congress weigh in on court fight over abortion drug - Roll Call

Members of Congress weighed in on a lower court ruling that would stop the manufacture and distribution of an abortion drug.

The Conversation

State battles over abortion are leading to state constitutional amendments – an option in all states and available directly to citizens in 18 states

The battles over abortion – who can get one, when they can get one – largely shifted from a focus on the U.S. Supreme Court back to state lawmakers and judges in June 2022. That’s when the Supreme Court ruled that there was no federal constitutional guarantee of the right…

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The Supreme Court on Life and Liberty

I participated last Fall on a Wisconsin Law Review symposium panel on "Is the Court out of Control?," and wrote up a short (12-page) article for that. I'm posting it in several pieces; I hope some of you find it interesting, and I also still have time to make any…

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Hope of winning gender bill legal challenge 'vanishingly small', top expert says

HUMZA Yousaf’s chances of winning a legal challenge against the UK Government’s block of Scottish gender reform are “vanishingly small”, a…

Daily Record

Former SNP minister says Humza Yousaf ‘doesn’t have a chance’ of winning gender bill legal battle

Alex Neil said Yousaf should reintroduce the legislation and deal with its “deficiencies” instead of mounting a legal challenge.

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SC agrees to hear on Apr 28 plea challenging constitutional validity of provision of Maternity Benefit Act

The Supreme Court agreed to hear on April 28 a plea challenging the Constitutional validity of a provision of the Maternity Benefit Act. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Yousaf told he ‘doesn’t have a chance’ of winning legal battle over gender Bill

Former SNP MSP Alex Neil has urged the First Minister to change gender recognition reform legislation, instead of going to court over it.

ABC News

Court throws out Bob Brown Foundation challenge to MMG mine lease

An environmental group has lost its latest court battle with a mining company that's planning to build a controversial new tailings dam in Tasmania's west.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Missouri and Kansas AGs want to block abortion pill — for democracy, says Kris Kobach

If in the near future the U.S. Supreme Court decides to ban the abortion pill, you’ll have Andrew Bailey and Kris Kobach to blame.

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