Well, That Alabama Supreme Court Embryo Ruling Is Already Gutting IVF

Tragically, it’s not the first time that Owasso has punished one of its LGBTQ+ members. In April 2022, one of Benedict’s teachers at Owasso High School, Tyler Wrynn, was featured in a video by Libs of TikTok, a far-right account Continue reading Well, That Alabama Supreme Court Embryo Ruling Is Already Gutting IVF

The Supreme Court Is on the Verge of Criminalizing Homelessness

If it does so, that will have ramifications for all unhoused people, from those who have been chronically homeless for some time to those currently falling into homelessness. And that last category is a large one: In the time since Continue reading The Supreme Court Is on the Verge of Criminalizing Homelessness

Alabama Supreme Court Cites the Bible in Terrifying Embryo Ruling

The verdict caps a draining four-month civil trial of the former president that began after Engoron ruled that New York Attorney General Letitia James had already proven Trump committed bank fraud. In the ensuing months, Trump railed against the justice Continue reading Alabama Supreme Court Cites the Bible in Terrifying Embryo Ruling

The Supreme Court Could Radically Redefine the Right to Protest

The Supreme Court has routinely held that participants in nonviolent First Amendment activities, such as boycotts and protests, are constitutionally protected from civil lawsuits for the consequences of those activities. In the 1982 case NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Store, the Continue reading The Supreme Court Could Radically Redefine the Right to Protest

The Plaintiffs in the Supreme Court’s Big Chevron Case Moonlight as Anti–Offshore Wind Activists

As researchers at Brown University’s Climate and Development Lab illustrated in a recent study on East Coast anti–offshore wind advocacy, right-wing groups—often funded by fossil fuel interests—frequently offer material support to these typically grassroots opposition movements. Polluter-backed think tanks such Continue reading The Plaintiffs in the Supreme Court’s Big Chevron Case Moonlight as Anti–Offshore Wind Activists

The Supreme Court Wants No Part of Disqualifying Trump From the Ballot

At least a few of the justices appeared to be worried that states would use bogus claims to disqualify otherwise legitimate candidates. These fears are not wholly unfounded. As I noted earlier this week, a coalition of Republican governors and Continue reading The Supreme Court Wants No Part of Disqualifying Trump From the Ballot

The Scene at Trump’s Supreme Court Case Is Creepily Cultlike

Over the last several months, Republicans have worked overtime to make a crisis out of the border without actually working to solve it. Republican governors are going toe to toe with federal agents along the Rio Grande section of the Continue reading The Scene at Trump’s Supreme Court Case Is Creepily Cultlike

The Trump Disqualification Case Is the Supreme Court’s Most Consequential Moment

Trumpworld also challenged the disqualification by arguing that the former president has not been convicted of rebellion, insurrection, or any ancillary offenses. In their brief for the court, Trump’s lawyers go even further to argue he did nothing wrong on Continue reading The Trump Disqualification Case Is the Supreme Court’s Most Consequential Moment

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Sets Up Showdown on Medicaid Abortion Ban

David Cohen, one of the lawyers for the plaintiffs, told The New Republic that the Pennsylvania government has a “very high bar” to clear to justify Medicaid excluding abortion coverage after this ruling. The government must prove it has a Continue reading Pennsylvania Supreme Court Sets Up Showdown on Medicaid Abortion Ban

The Supreme Court’s Silent Rulings Are Increasingly Troubling

Texas argued that it had not run afoul of that principle. “Under the Supremacy Clause, laws passed within the scope of Congress’s enumerated powers may preempt state laws that conflict with federal mandates,” the state told the justices. “But,” it Continue reading The Supreme Court’s Silent Rulings Are Increasingly Troubling