The Latest Breaking News from Samuel A Alito Jr

The burden is on Democrats to show that abortion rights can motivate their voters to the polls in the 2022 midterms.

More than Congress or the White House, the Supreme Court may arguably be the most important government institution in the country, its decisions touching on virtually every facet of day-to-day life, as well as broader questions of how we govern ourselves, regulate business and exercise our faith.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s leaked draft opinion jolted some legal experts for how it would not only upend abortion rights, but move onto shakier ground other constitutional rights such as same-sex marriage, contraception and more.

PHILADELPHIA — It was months before a pivotal national election. A strong conservative majority had been cemented on the U.S. Supreme Court, and legislators in one state had passed a law restricting abortion access that they hoped, through the court challenges that followed, would become the vehicle for overturning Roe…

The Supreme Court’s leaked draft opinion jolted some legal experts for how it would upend more than just abortion rights.

In scathing, dismissive language, Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. wrote a draft opinion that does what for many decades seemed unimaginable — it overturns the 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade and annihilates the constitutionally protected right of a woman to control her own body. If the leaked…

Talk about shooting the messenger.

The Supreme Court’s decision was made possible by an emboldened right side of the court

WASHINGTON — Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court’s best-known decision of the past 50 years, is also its most endangered precedent.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is ready to overturn Roe v. Wade and allow states to outlaw abortion, according to purported draft opinion that was leaked to Politico.