Court ruling highlights US election tension over gay rights The US Supreme Court has struck down a Colorado law which prevented efforts to protect homosexuals against discrimination. Washington Correspondent, Joe Carroll, reportsJOE CARROLL
Abortion is legal in Florida through the first 15 weeks of pregnancy. But a separate April 1 state Supreme Court ruling upholding the current law triggers a 2023 law would drop that to six weeks — often before women know they’re pregnant — to take effect on May 1. MARYLAND M...
DENVER (KDVR) — The United States population is evenly split between states that protect abortion access at the state level and those that do not. Aleaked U.S. Supreme Court draftsuggests justices could overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion. If overturned, U.S. states...
United States and subject to United States jurisdiction. This declaration, which was echoed in the text of the Fourteenth Amendment, was designed primarily to counter the Supreme Court's ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford that Black people in the United States could be denied citizenship. The act...
“It’s not what you do to the Supreme Court of the United States. “ But now President Molly Yard counters that ‘‘the court is influenced by public opinion- as is every other political institution in this country. “ The truth of that claim, like the future of abortion rights, may ...
a federal judge issued a temporary injunctionblockingthe law’s enforcement. Then the Supreme Court in April 2024ruledthat the state could enforce the ban against everyone except the plaintiffs who challenged it. Even before that ruling, Little in March 2024signeda new law tha...
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld that ruling, twice. But during oral argument last week, conservative justices and liberals to some degree expressed skepticism: Is there enough "’cohesion (一致性)" among the women to justify treating them as a single class A ...
Supreme Court to overturn its landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling on abortion rights has upended 50 years of precedent and handed state lawmakers across the country the power to restrict or ban abortion.The result will be a patchwork of laws that vary based on where a person lives. ...
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In the Sweatt ruling, delivered on the same day, the Supreme Court held that the maintenance(35) of separate law schools for whites and blacks was unconstitutional. A year after Herman Sweatt entered the University of Texas law school, desegregation cases were filed in the states of Kansas, ...