As the legal battle over the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) controversial approval of the abortion drug mifepristone continues, women whose lives have been personally affected by its use are stepping forward to share their experiences. One of those women is Sarah Hurm, an Iowa mother of four who, in 2018, became pregnant with…
IN-DEPTH: Pro-Life Women Share How the Abortion Pill Changed Their Lives
IN-DEPTH: This Mother Was Able to Reverse an Abortion Pill and Save Her Baby’s Life
As the legal battle over the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) controversial approval of the abortion drug mifepristone continues, women whose lives have been personally affected by its use are stepping forward to share their experiences. One of those women is Sarah Hurm, an Iowa mother of four who, in 2018, became pregnant with…
Supreme Court Justice Says He Thinks He Knows Who Leaked Draft Abortion Opinion
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito says he thinks he knows who leaked a draft opinion in a major abortion case. “I personally have a pretty good idea who is responsible,” Alito told the Wall Street Journal. The leaked opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was authored by Alito, a George W. Bush appointee. Politico…
McCarthy’s New Bill Stuns White House
The Biden administration responds to Republicans’ plan to slash spending and raise the debt ceiling. What’s next after Speaker Kevin McCarthy scores a win in the House? Chaos at the border is expected to grow as a key immigration enforcement measure expires in two weeks. Find out more about the dueling plans released Thursday from the White House…
SCOTUS Sympathetic to 94-Year-Old Grandmother in ‘Home Equity Theft’ Dispute
A 94-year-old Minnesota homeowner’s lawyer told a seemingly sympathetic Supreme Court on April 26 that local governments should not be allowed to take the full value of a home as payment for much smaller property tax debts—a practice critics call “home equity theft.” The case comes after the Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF), which is representing dispossessed…
Oliver Wendell Holmes: The ‘Great Dissenter’
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. served on the U.S. Supreme Court when several laws were passed that restricted freedom of speech; this was a time when people spoke against the government and its choice to go to war. For years, the Supreme Court did not defend people’s right to free speech. Then Holmes came up with…
Supreme Court Justice John Roberts Refuses to Testify Before Congress
The U.S. Supreme Court’s chief justice has declined to testify to Congress on ethics issues. Chief Justice John Roberts informed Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) of the refusal on April 25. Durbin, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, had urged Roberts to answer questions under oath at an upcoming public hearing….
Supreme Court Sides With Landowners Whose Land Was Sought for Pipeline
The Supreme Court revived a lawsuit filed by Virginia property owners challenging the seizure of their land to make way for a natural gas pipeline. The court’s decision, which came April 24 in an unsigned order with no recorded dissents, is the latest development in a long-running legal battle between Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC and…
IN-DEPTH: Democrats’ Push to Impose Ethics Code on Supreme Court Won’t Work, Legal Experts Say
Senate Democrats’ efforts to impose a code of conduct on the Supreme Court and get Chief Justice John Roberts to testify in Congress about Supreme Court ethics policies are fraught with problems, legal experts told The Epoch Times. Congressional Democrats have responded with anger and indignation to an April 6 article published by ProPublica, a…
Indian Tribe Tells Supreme Court It Cannot Be Sued
A defaulting borrower told the Supreme Court on April 24 that he should be able to sue an Indian tribe based in Wisconsin for allegedly aggressive collection efforts he claims drove him to attempt to take his own life. In the case, Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians v. Coughlin (court file…
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