These Conservative Christian Lawyers Are Helping States Defend Their Abortion Bans

7 minutes 20 seconds ago
The Supreme Court on Wednesday will consider its third major abortion case in two years—and the third brought with the help of a legal nonprofit attempting to infuse American life with its far-right brand of Christianity. Not only is the group, Alliance Defending Freedom, behind legislation to ban abortion, it is also increasingly representing state […]
Pema Levy

The Supreme Court Has Already Given Trump What He Wants in the Immunity Case

14 minutes 54 seconds ago
The Supreme Court on Thursday will hear arguments over former President Donald Trump’s unprecedented and novel theory that former presidents are immune from criminal prosecution for anything that involved alleged “official acts” while in office. But this long-shot theory was only one component of Trump’s overall legal strategy; his main goal was to delay his […]
Pema Levy

Emergency Abortion Care Is Before the Supreme Court—and Blue States Should Be Very Worried

3 hours 34 minutes ago
Jaelyn was 19 weeks and five days into a much-wanted pregnancy when the cramping began—slowly at first, then in an insistent rhythm that signaled she was in labor. Several excruciating hours later, emergency doctors delivered a heart-wrenching diagnosis. The amniotic sac was protruding from her cervix; her baby was doomed. “There’s nothing we can do,” […]
Nina Martin

Churches Don’t Have to Be Accessible. That’s Bad News For Voters.

3 hours 34 minutes ago
Eli. Underwood likes the experience of voting in person, but they now have to vote by mail. Underwood went to a Detroit church to cast a ballot in the 2022 general elections, but chronic health conditions meant the two flights of stairs to the basement taxed them badly; living with Long Covid as well, Underwood was […]
Julia Métraux

This Tribe Will Gladly Accept Clean Energy Funding, Even If Wyoming Won’t

3 hours 34 minutes ago
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When Wyoming governor Mark Gordon told the Environmental Protection Agency in 2023 that the state would not be applying for federal grant money to reduce pollution and greenhouse gases, he left most communities in the state without access to […]
Jake Bolster

Meet the MAGA Candidate Vying to Replace Mitt Romney

3 hours 35 minutes ago
On a rainy night in February, about 50 conservatives squeezed into a room at the Taylorsville Heritage Center to hear from several candidates running for office in Utah this year. The MAGA-friendly crowd had been organized by “rapping granny” Linda Paulson, the octogenarian great-grandmother who had earned 15 minutes of viral fame in 2022 by […]
Stephanie Mencimer

Is $60 Billion Enough to Save Ukraine?

3 hours 35 minutes ago
Congress approved a new aid package after months of delay, potentially throwing the country a lifeline in its war with Russia.
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