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The Costs of Restricting Abortion? More Than $130 Billion Per Year.

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When the US Supreme Court decided to overrule Roe v. Wade three years ago, the ruling had sweeping consequences for public health, making pregnancy much riskier, leading to the preventable deaths of pregnant women, and causing a spike in infant mortality. Now, research suggests the country has also suffered hundreds of billions of dollars in […]

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Despite Trump Outburst at Leonard Leo, DOJ Continues to Fulfill Leo’s Wish List

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Leonard Leo, the right-wing operative who picked Trump’s Supreme Court appointees, has long been the president’s ally.

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The US Is Literally Trying to Take Away Trans Lifelines, Says Chase Strangio

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Strangio discusses the Supreme Court upholding a ban on gender-affirming care and the end of the LGBTQ suicide hotline.

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Critics Decry SCOTUS Ruling Upholding Tennessee’s Ban on Gender-Affirming Care

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The ruling will likely have widespread implications, affecting similar bans in over two dozen states nationwide.

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Supreme Court Upholds Tennessee Ban on Gender Affirming Care for Minors

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Three years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, allowing states to ban abortion, the justices have decided to let states ban another politically controversial form of health care—this time, gender-affirming medical treatments for minors. In a major ruling on Wednesday, the Supreme Court upheld a Tennessee law banning transgender kids, but not cisgender […]

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Supreme Court Upholds Tennessee Ban on Gender-Affirming Care for Minors

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Three years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, allowing states to ban abortion, the justices have decided to let states ban another politically controversial form of health care—this time, gender-affirming medical treatments for minors. In a major ruling on Wednesday, the Supreme Court upheld a Tennessee law banning transgender kids, but not cisgender […]

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The Supreme Court is Making an All Powerful President—But the One We Have Isn’t All That Interested in the Job

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The Trump administration is investigating whether former President Joe Biden was so enfeebled that his advisers secretly ran the country on his behalf. House Republicans and Trump’s obsequious new pardon attorney are likewise probing whether Biden’s aides issued pardons without his knowledge. “Although the authority to take these executive actions, along with many others, is […]

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SCOTUS’ Conservative Majority Rules in Favor of Disability Rights

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On Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of Ava Tharpe, the plaintiff in A.J.T. v. Osseo Area Schools, a notable education and disability rights case on the Court’s current docket. The ruling ensures that families will not have to meet the notoriously difficult standard of proving “bad faith and gross misjudgment” when suing […]

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What SCOTUS Actually Said About Workplace Fairness in This Year’s Big “Reverse Discrimination” Case

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In 2020, Marlean Ames alleged that she was denied a job promotion and subsequently demoted by the Ohio Department of Youth Services because she is heterosexual. Her supervisor at the time was gay.  Ames sued her employer for discrimination, but lower courts initially dismissed her case. She hadn’t met a legal bar called the “background […]

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Enraged at Judicial Setbacks From His Own Nominees, Trump Is Pushing Extremists

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Trump is trying to pack the courts with inexperienced MAGA loyalists to facilitate his authoritarian agenda.

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Humanitarian Parole Is Over. Now Comes the Fear.

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Last week, the US Supreme Court lifted an order from a Massachusetts district court that had maintained humanitarian parole protections in place for about 530,000 immigrants from Cuba, Venezuela, Haiti, and Nicaragua who had been living in the United States legally under a Biden-era program. Advocacy groups in South Florida condemned the decision that will […]

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