Supreme Court

Federal Appeals Court Panel Reaffirms Texas Abortion Ban Under Coronavirus Limits

5:50pm April 07, 2020

by Sarah McCammon

The decision allows the ban while litigation continues. Top state Republican officials have said abortion is an elective procedure and should be suspended to save medical supplies during the pandemic.

U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams, shown here during a news conference at the White House last month, said Tuesday that he expects some places to be able to "slowly reopen" after the end of April.

Surgeon General Says 'Over 90% Of The Country' Is Doing Right Thing To Fight Virus

1:28pm April 07, 2020

by Brakkton Booker

"The American people have the power to change the trajectory of this epidemic if we come together like we have after past tragedies in this county," the U.S. Surgeon General told ABC on Tuesday.

As The Pandemic Spreads, Battles Over Abortion Play Out In Court

3:07pm March 31, 2020

by Sarah McCammon

Republican officials in several states have sought to suspend abortions during the pandemic.

A Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Louis is shown in June. The clinic has all but ceased providing abortions after Missouri tightened restrictions.

As Missouri Clinic Awaits Its Legal Fate, Abortions In State Have Virtually Halted

12:23pm March 12, 2020

by Sarah McCammon

The state has one remaining clinic in St. Louis, but Planned Parenthood officials say just three abortions were performed there in February, down from 174 in the same month a year ago.

Supporters of LGBTQ rights took to the street in a demonstration in front of the U.S. Supreme Court last October.

Health & Safety

'Whiplash' Of LGBTQ Protections And Rights, From Obama To Trump

4:42pm March 02, 2020

by Selena Simmons-Duffin

The Obama and Trump administrations have used their power to shape legal interpretations of "sex discrimination" in very different ways. Here's a rundown on what's changed for LGBTQ rights in the U.S.

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Lee Boyd Malvo, the 'D.C. Sniper.' The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to dismiss a pending case after the state changed a criminal sentencing law for juveniles.

National

U.S. Supreme Court Agrees To Dismiss 'D.C. Sniper' Case Following Virginia Parole Law

6:30pm February 27, 2020

by Vanessa Romo

Lawyers for Lee Boyd Malvo, who shot and killed 10 people as a teen and was sentenced to life in prison without parole, pulled the case from the high court. Under a new law, he could seek parole.

Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America, by Adam Cohen

'Supreme Inequality' Makes A Case That The Top U.S. Court Has Widened The Wealth Gap

12:16pm February 24, 2020

by Martha Anne Toll

Lawyer and journalist Adam Cohen explores five decades of Supreme Court opinions and comes to a rueful conclusion: These decisions have greatly exacerbated the space between rich and poor.

Andrew Downs, senior regional director for the southern region of the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, stands at the approximate spot where the pipeline would cross underground.

Environment

Supreme Court Pipeline Fight Could Disrupt How The Appalachian Trail Is Run

4:26pm February 21, 2020

by Becky Sullivan

The Appalachian Trail is at the center of a legal case before the Supreme Court on Monday involving a proposed gas pipeline. Trail officials say it has become a football between the case's two sides.

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A patrol car is stationed outside the home of deceased Ulrich Klopfer in Crete, Ill., on Sept. 19, 2019. Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill presided over the mass burial Wednesday of the remains of more than 2,400 fetuses found last year at the suburban

National

Thousands Of Fetal Remains, Found After Abortion Provider's Death, Buried In Indiana

8:49pm February 12, 2020

by Sarah McCammon

The 2,411 fetal remains were buried in a single donated grave in South Bend, Ind., during a service presided over by Indiana's Republican attorney general, Curtis Hill.

Anti-abortion rights activists march toward the U.S. Supreme Court during the 2019 March for Life in Washington, D.C. President Trump spoke at this year's rally on Friday.

President Trump Faces Friendly Crowd At March For Life

5:35pm January 24, 2020

by Sarah McCammon

Trump has addressed the annual march remotely before, but Friday marked the first time a sitting president has spoken in person at the anti-abortion rights event.

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