Abortion rights advocates fear a new conservative majority on the court may be prepared to overturn or alter landmark Roe decisionThe US supreme court is expected to hear oral arguments on Wednesday in the most important abortion rights case in decades…
US supreme court to hear oral arguments over Texas abortion law
Biden administration and reproductive rights groups have asked court to block a controversial law banning nearly all terminationsThe US supreme court is set to hear oral arguments over whether Texas can continue to allow private citizens to enforce a c…
Supreme court, Facebook, Fed: three horsemen of democracy’s apocalypse | Robert Reich
These unaccountable bodies hold increasing sway over US government. Their abuses of power affect us allThe week’s news has been dominated by the supreme court, whose term began on Monday; the Federal Reserve, and whether it will start responding to inf…
Anita Hill on sexual harassment and survival: ‘You have to think: what is my life for?’
Before Christine Blasey Ford and Monica Lewinsky, there was Anita Hill, shamed for exposing the actions of a powerful man. She explains how she withstood the tumultAnita Hill sits so still that, when she is not speaking, I worry that the screen through…
Texas doctor protests abortion law by admitting he carried out procedure
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…