Arizona has officially repealed an 1864 abortion ban that the state Supreme Court revived last month. Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs signed the repeal on Thursday, a day after the state Senate approved it. “While I’m proud to sign this bill and provide a moment of relief for Arizonans, we still …
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As Florida’s six-week abortion ban takes effect on Wednesday, Faye Webster released “Lifetime (Live)” as part of the reproductive rights benefit album Noise for Now Vol 2. The project, set for release on June 21, stems from the non-profit Noise for Now and its recently launched label. According to a …
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Louisiana lawmakers are trying to quietly criminalize possession of the most commonly used abortion pills. In a move that took the state’s abortion advocates and OB-GYNs by surprise, last-minute amendments that would place mifepristone and misoprostol on the state’s list of controlled substances were added to a bill focused on …
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Donald Trump continues to claim that Americans are positively over the moon about the destruction of reproductive rights — but he couldn’t be more wrong. During a Wednesday rally in Waukesha, Wisconsin, the former president once again bragged about his role in overturning Roe v. Wade, and ending the federal …
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The consulting firm led by Leonard Leo, the architect of the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority, has worked for billionaire Charles Koch’s political advocacy network and a dark-money group that is currently arguing a Supreme Court case designed to preempt a wealth tax, according to documents obtained by Rolling Stone. The …
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The women on the Supreme Court appeared to band together Wednesday during oral arguments in a case out of Idaho that could shape how hospitals in Republican-led states respond to life-threatening pregnancy complications. Even conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a Catholic abortion opponent, had some fierce inquiries for Idaho Solicitor …
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Should where a woman lives determine whether she receives necessary medical care? That’s the heart of the question the Supreme Court will confront on Wednesday when it takes up a case concerning the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, a Reagan-era law that says that any hospital that accepts …
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John Sauer, a lawyer arguing Donald Trump’s presidential immunity case, generated significant controversy when he asserted, in response to a judge’s hypothetical, that a president could not be prosecuted if he were to order the assassination of a political rival — unless he were first impeached and convicted. With that …
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Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake can’t seem to make up her mind. Does she believe that Arizona’s Civil War-era total ban on abortion is a “great law” and that abortion is “the ultimate sin,” as she said on the campaign trail in 2022? Or does she think that every woman …
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Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update, which famously saw Norm Macdonald make O.J. Simpson the target of many a punchline from behind the desk some thirty years ago, marked the former football player’s death with a quite different tone. “O.J. Simpson died this week at the age of 76 after a …
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