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Fights over Pa. election rules that seemed settled after 2020 have now come roaring back

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania’s primary election and Senate race recount are over. But as the state heads into yet another high-profile and contentious November, elections officials and lawyers are warily acknowledging something:

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A murder plot, the looming Roe v Wade ruling and protests at family homes: How Supreme Court security became political

As an alleged assassination plot is foiled outside Brett Kavanaugh’s home, the issues of protecting judges and the First Amendment right to protest have come into conflict, reports Rachel Sharp

The Independent UK

Abortion amendment moving quickly in California legislature

Democrats are moving quickly to make sure abortions are a constitutional right in California

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Title IX timeline: 50 years of halting progress across U.S.

It has been 50 years since Title IX was signed into law by President Nixon

The Independent UK

US bid to outlaw abortion hurts women everywhere - it's no different from the Taliban

Dr Miriam Stoppard examines how the US Supreme Court is poised to rescind the law allowing a woman the right to abortion - and how that's going backwards in terms of human rights

Daily Mirror

SCOTUS immunizes feds from liability

"This ruling leaves victims of police violence by CBP agents without an effective remedy," ACLU warns

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Commentary: The new court’s absurd inhumanity: To preserve procedure, an innocent man must die

There has been a lot of attention paid, rightly, to the leaked opinion showing that the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade. But another opinion, both cruel and absurd, issued by the Republican supermajority deserves attention, as well.

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US Supreme Court won’t block a lower-court order to count undated Pa. mail ballots

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday lifted an order that had injected uncertainty into the debate over whether undated mail ballots should be counted in Pennsylvania elections.

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Man charged with attempted murder of US judge

A California man has been charged with attempting or threatening to murder or kidnap US Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

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Armed man charged with attempted murder of US Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh

A California man armed with a handgun who planned to kill US Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh is charged with attempted murder.

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Conservative Supreme Court justices disagree about how to read the law

With a 6-3 majority, conservative justices on the Supreme Court may appear poised to hand down decisions that the Republican presidents who appointed them would applaud.

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Armed man arrested near US Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh’s home

Nicholas John Roske of California is charged with attempted murder of a Supreme Court justice.

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Man with weapon arrested near Brett Kavanaugh’s home, according to report

A man with at least one weapon was arrested near the Maryland home of US Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, according to The Washington Post, citing people familiar with the investigation.

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Armed man planning to kill Brett Kavanaugh over Roe v Wade is arrested near Supreme Court justice’s home

Suspect’s arrest comes as nation’s high court considers several controversial cases

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What triggers the 'trigger laws' that could ban abortions?

The Supreme Court’s leaked draft opinion on abortion rights dramatically declares that “the authority to regulate abortion must be returned to the people and their elected representatives.”

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Is ‘ineffective’ legal counsel enough to appeal a death row sentence?

The only woman on Idaho death row is seeking to have her sentence reconsidered, but a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last week has thrown her active federal appeal into question.

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High court won't hear appeal over McCloskeys' law licenses

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the husband-and-wife attorneys whose law licenses were placed on probation for pointing guns at racial injustice protesters outside their St. Louis mansion in 2020

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In Texas, where abortion rights began, GOP builds new barriers

AUSTIN, Texas — Linda Coffee was in her mid-20s and barely out of law school when she and former classmate Sarah Weddington stunned the legal establishment—and much of America—by successfully arguing Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court case that legalized abortion in 1973.

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People, not courts, shape norms

What healthy democracies need are ongoing processes of democratic deliberations among citizens

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Change won't appear overnight in many states if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade

Individual states and some cities are taking legal steps to either limit or allow abortions, gearing up for what will likely be a fierce national battle if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the constitutional right to abortion.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Pennsylvania court orders counting of undated mail ballots in win for McCormick in his GOP Senate race against Oz

PHILADELPHIA — A state appellate court on Thursday agreed with Pennsylvania GOP Senate candidate David McCormick and ordered Pennsylvania counties to tally more than 800 undated mail ballots and include them in the vote totals they report for the neck-and-neck Republican primary race between McCormick and Mehmet Oz.

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If Roe v. Wade is overturned, what happens next? Your questions answered

After the leak of the draft opinion in which the Supreme Court appears ready to overturn Roe, we asked for your questions about the future of abortion care in the U.S. Here's what our experts said.

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Abortion providers and advocates sue Florida over state’s ‘dangerous’ 15-week ban

Legal battle for abortion rights heads to state court as US Supreme Court weighs imminent decision on Roe v Wade

The Independent UK

US Supreme Court blocks Texas social media law against political speech removal

Tech industry groups say law could make social media platforms ‘havens of the vilest expression’

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US Supreme Court stay on undated mail ballots injects uncertainty into Pa. Senate vote count

PHILADELPHIA — The U.S. Supreme Court has pressed pause on the ongoing debate over whether to count undated mail ballots, issuing an emergency stay Tuesday while it decides whether to hear an appeal on the issue.

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