Alan Braid writes column for Washington PostTexas law shows fragility of women’s rights, say activistsProtesting a Texas law which outlaws abortion after six weeks of pregnancy and empowers citizens to sue providers and anyone who helps them, a San Ant…
Amy Coney Barrett says the supreme court aren’t ‘partisan hacks’. Oh really? | David Sirota
Never mind the court’s wildly rightwing bent and secretive ‘shadow docket’ – or Barrett’s refusal to recuse herself from a case involving a fossil fuel giant that employed her father War is peace, freedom is slavery, and the supreme court is a dispassi…
Capitol police arrest man with illegal weapons and swastika in truck near DNC headquarters – live
Man reportedly had bayonet and machete in truck with a swastikaBarrett defends supreme court after radical Texas abortion rulingJustice: ‘This court is not comprised of a bunch of partisan hacks’Sign up to receive First Thing – our daily briefing by em…
UN experts condemn Texas abortion law as sex discrimination ‘at its worst’
Exclusive: human rights lawyer criticizes the supreme court and says new law will ‘make abortion unsafe and deadly’United Nations human rights monitors have strongly condemned the state of Texas for its new anti-abortion law, which they say violates in…
The Guardian view on the Texas abortion ban: this is not the end | Editorial
The supreme court’s refusal to block the law marks a grave blow to the freedom and safety of womenThe cruel, vindictive and dangerous law that has taken effect in Texas is much more than the most extreme anti-abortion legislation in the United States. …
Biden condemns US supreme court’s ‘unprecedented assault’ on abortion rights
President denounces justices for failing to block Texas banVows to ‘ensure woman have access to safe and legal abortions’Joe Biden condemned the US supreme court on Thursday, saying it had delivered “an unprecedented assault on a woman’s constitutional…
Texas now has abortion ‘bounty hunters’: Sonia Sotomayor’s scathing legal dissent
Justice Sotomayor wrote a blistering dissent on the US supreme court failing to block an extreme Texas abortion law. We are republishing it hereThe court’s order is stunning. Presented with an application to enjoin a flagrantly unconstitutional law eng…
Cybersleuths find men who allegedly attacked officer during US Capitol riot
David Walls-Kaufman and Taylor F Taranto appeared to target Jeffrey Smith because his eyes and face were vulnerable, suit saysA group of cybersleuths have tracked down two men who allegedly attacked police officer Jeffrey Smith at the US Capitol durin…