The Latest Breaking News from Harry Blackmun

Former US supreme court justice nominated by George HW Bush who consistently voted with its liberal wing

Until last year, Roe made it more possible for women’s lives to be determined by their choices, not merely by their bodies

The high court’s monumental ruling will have major impact on Texas, which has a trigger law banning abortions that goes into effect soon.

The abortion precedent has faced withering criticism, including damning appraisals by pro-choice legal scholars, for half a century.

“Here, sir, the people govern,” Alexander Hamilton said when explaining the republican form of government recently established in America. “Here, they act by their immediate representatives.” Most Americans agree, at least in theory, but theory is easy. It’s in practice, when this system does not deliver everything you want, that…

In the swirling days since what I suppose we should just call The Leak, a significant theme has been the argument that the Supreme Court has grown deeply politicized. But there never existed a golden age when the court was anything else.

Evidence is thin for Operation Rescue's claim — and the group's harassment has repeatedly gotten people killed

A leaked draft of a U.S. Supreme Court decision suggests the country’s highest court could be poised overturn Roe v

A woman’s right to have an abortion through the first trimester of pregnancy was protected nationally in 1973 following the supreme court’s landmark ruling