Mark Sherman

U.S. Supreme Court questions controversial Texas abortion law

November 1, 2021 at 8:46 p.m.

A majority of the Supreme Court signaled Monday they would allow abortion providers to pursue a court challenge to the controversial Texas law that has virtually ended abortion in the...

Supreme Court doesn鈥檛 block Texas abortion law, sets hearing

October 22, 2021 at 11:30 a.m.

The Supreme Court is not immediately blocking the Texas law that bans most abortions, but has agreed to hear arguments in the case in early November.

FILE – This Sept. 3, 2021, file photo shows the Supreme Court in Washington. The Supreme Court on Tuesday, Oct. 12, seemed inclined to allow Kentucky’s Republican attorney general to continue defending a restriction on abortion rights that had been struck down by lower courts. The underlying issue in the case that was argued at the high court Tuesday is a blocked Kentucky law that abortion rights supporters say would have effectively banned a standard abortion method in the second trimester of pregnancy. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Biden team asks Supreme Court to pause Texas abortion law

October 18, 2021 at 11:17 a.m.

The Biden administration is asking the Supreme Court to block the Texas law banning most abortions, while the fight over the measure's constitutionality plays out in the courts.

Supreme Court justices鈥� views on abortion in their own words and votes

October 12, 2021 at 7:26 a.m.

Abortion already is dominating the Supreme Court抖阴ap new term, months before the justices will decide whether to reverse decisions reaching back nearly 50 years. Not only is there Mississippi鈥檚 call...

Supreme Court justices鈥� views on abortion in their own words and votes

October 11, 2021 at 10:43 p.m.

Abortion already is dominating the Supreme Court’s new term, months before the justices will decide whether to reverse decisions reaching back nearly 50 years. Not only is there Mississippi’s call...

What抖阴ap old is new again: Justices back at court for new term

October 4, 2021 at 1:11 p.m.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court returned to the courtroom Monday for the start of a momentous new term, after a nearly 19-month absence because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, left, ...

Abortion, guns, religion top a big Supreme Court term

October 2, 2021 at 8:58 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- The future of abortion rights is in the hands of a conservative Supreme Court that is beginning a new term Monday that also includes major cases on gun...

Texas 6-week abortion ban takes effect, with high court mum

September 1, 2021 at 9:28 a.m.

A Texas law banning most abortions in the state took effect at midnight, but the Supreme Court has yet to act on an emergency appeal to put the law on...

Texas 6-week abortion ban takes effect, with high court mum

September 1, 2021 at 6:23 a.m.

A Texas law banning most abortions in the state took effect at midnight, but the Supreme Court has yet to act on an emergency appeal to put the law on...

Supreme Court orders “Remain in Mexico” policy reinstated

August 24, 2021 at 11:42 p.m.

The Supreme Court says the Biden administration likely violated federal law in trying to end a Trump-era program that forces people to wait in Mexico while seeking asylum in the...

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