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A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Texas on Wednesday struck down  a Texas abortion law  that requires the embryonic and fetal tissue remains to be buried or cremated. The law also imposed penalties, including: “suspension or revocation of a healthcare facility’s license, a civil penalty of $1,000 for each violation, [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday affirmed a lower court’s decision invalidating an Alabama state law prohibiting dilation and evacuation abortions, the most common second-trimester abortion procedure. Writing for a unanimous panel, Chief Judge Ed Carnes upheld the lower court after reviewing for clear error its decision to invalidate the [...]

UN Secretary-General António Guterres announced Wednesday that former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet will succeed Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein as the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights . Bachelet completed her second four-year term as the Chilean president earlier this year. Upon her initial election in 2006, she became the first female to assume the Chilean [...]

President Donald Trump’s recent nomination of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh as Associate Justice to the U.S. Supreme Court from a list of potential candidates has ignited immediate support and criticism from conservatives and liberals respectively. An undergrad and law alum at Yale University, Judge Kavanaugh clerked for the departing Justice Anthony Kennedy, practiced law privately [...]

An inherent feature of democracy is majority rule. And with that, as you may recall from civics, comes the risk of tyranny of the majority—the danger that a controlling popular viewpoint will oppress opposing views in society. Foreseeing this, the Framers set up a number of constitutional mechanisms to protect minority interests. Among these early institutional protections [...]

The retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy this week represents the end of an era and the beginning of the entrenchment of a more conservative Supreme Court, probably for years to come. That much seems clear. But there are actually many more sides to Justice Kennedy’s retirement than that simple statement implies. Justice Kennedy was nominated [...]

Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement announcement yesterday rightfully set off shock waves across the country. For the past three decades, Justice Kennedy has gone from one of the more moderate justices who could sometimes swing an important vote, to the lone decider on monumental issues from gay marriage (siding with the liberals) to campaign finance and [...]

The US Supreme Court  ruled  Tuesday that a regulation requiring crisis pregnancy centers to give women certain information concerning free or low-cost abortion services and disclose if the center was unlicensed to provide medical services was unconstitutional. In a 5-4 ruling in NIFLA v. Becerra , the court decided that the California Reproductive Freedom, Accountability, Comprehensive Care, and Transparency [...]

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit heard oral arguments on Monday concerning Texas’s attempted defunding of Planned Parenthood . Texas is appealing a lower court injunction that prevents them from denying Medicaid coverage to Planned Parenthood. The appellant’s argument focused on allegations that the Texas branch of Planned [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday vacated a decision that allowed undocumented immigrant “Jane Doe” to seek an abortion. The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit’s decision was vacated as a Munsingwear vacatur. This means that the case became moot by an act of the winning party while on its way [...]