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Appeals court weighs order on social media content moderation - Roll Call

An appellate court panel heard arguments Thursday about the government's ability to contact social media companies on content moderation.

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Part 3: Under Trump, Texas’ foot soldiers became federal judges, securing a conservative stronghold in the courts

A federal judiciary full of ideological allies is helping Texas block Democratic priorities and advance right-wing legal doctrines. But the bigger prize is conservative control of the rule of law itself.

The Texas Tribune

Supreme Court to decide gun rights case on domestic violence

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will decide whether federal law can prohibit gun possession for people who are subject to domestic violence orders, the first Second Amendment case at the Supreme Court since a decision last year that expanded the right to carry firearms in public.

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Supreme Court to decide gun rights case on domestic violence - Roll Call

The Supreme Court will decide whether federal law can prohibit gun possession for people who are subject to domestic violence orders.

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A Year Post-Dobbs, Major Shifts in Abortion Access and Politics

Plus: Court rules against judge who threw child stars in jail during parents' custody dispute, inside the FTC's attempt to stop Microsoft from acquiring Call of Duty, and more...

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Stop Piling Charges on Mom of 6-Year-Old Shooter

Plus: Michigan Supreme Court takes up case on warrantless drone spying, Obamacare legal battles continue, and more...

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For $6.5 Million, Durham Report Finds FBI Didn't Have Solid Dirt on Trump and Russia

Plus: Reexamining the roots of qualified immunity, who's really hurt by business regulations, and more...

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3 judges who chipped away abortion rights to hear federal abortion pill appeal

Three appeals court judges with a history of supporting restrictions on abortion will hear arguments May 17 on whether a widely used abortion drug should remain available

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Second Court Upholds FCC’s Broadband Subsidy Delegation

Says USAC is sufficiently subordinate to pass constitutional muster

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Robe & Gavel: SCOTUS closes its April 2023 sitting

Welcome to the April 24 edition of Robe & Gavel, Ballotpedia’s newsletter about the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) and other judicial happenings around the U.S.

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How will the Supreme Court's decision on mifepristone affect abortion access? 4 questions answered

On April 21, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the abortion pill mifepristone, which is used in more than half of all abortions in the U.S., could remain accessible without restrictions – at least for now. The decision is temporary, however, buying time as an appeals court weighs the…

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Supreme Court Stays Lower Court Ruling That Limited Access to Abortion Pill

Mifepristone will remain on the market for now with no changes to how it can be prescribed.

Reason

Supreme Court leaves abortion drug on the market, for now

The legal challenge to mifepristone now returns to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans.

The Texas Tribune

Supreme Court delays decision in abortion drug case

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court gave itself more time on a decision expected Wednesday about a commonly used abortion drug, extending until Friday a temporary pause on a lower court ruling that would restrict availability of mifepristone.

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Supreme Court delays decision in abortion drug case - Roll Call

The Supreme Court extended until Friday a temporary pause on a lower court ruling that would restrict availability of mifepristone.

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Dallas judge would be first Latina on 5th Circuit appeals court with Biden nomination

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden has picked a longtime federal magistrate in Dallas for the influential 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

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Supreme Court's Alito halts abortion drug restrictions through Wednesday

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court temporarily paused through at least Wednesday a court order that would have restricted a commonly used abortion drug nationwide in a brief order issued Friday afternoon.

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Anti-mifepristone court decisions rely on medical misinformation about abortion and questionable legal reasoning

An early April 2023 decision by a U.S. district judge in Texas to reverse 23 years of approval of the abortion pill mifepristone has sparked explosive debate.

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DOJ, drugmaker ask SCOTUS to intervene in abortion drug case

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department and a pharmaceutical company on Friday asked the Supreme Court to intervene in the court fight over a commonly used abortion drug in order to keep a court ruling restricting availability of the drug from taking effect this weekend.

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US Supreme Court justice temporarily halts abortion pill curbs

Government says restrictions on mifepristone would deny people ‘lawful access’ to drug deemed safe by US regulators.

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Supreme Court halts abortion drug case through Wednesday - Roll Call

The ruling comes after a federal judge in Texas suspended the FDA's 2000 approval of mifespristone, a drug used for medication abortions.

Reason

The Unprecedented Judicial Move in the Texas Abortion Pill Decision

It’s not the FDA’s job to tell doctors what to do.

Tribune News Service

Justice Department to ask Supreme Court to intervene in abortion pill case

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Biden administration will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to protect the availability of a widely used abortion pill after a federal appeals court cleared the way for new restrictions to take effect Friday.

Tribune News Service

Members of Congress weigh in on court fight over abortion drug

WASHINGTON — A Louisiana-based federal appeals court could decide as soon as Wednesday the availability of the nation’s most used medication abortion drug, as members of Congress from both parties weighed in on a lower court ruling that would stop the manufacture and distribution of the drug this Saturday.

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Members of Congress weigh in on court fight over abortion drug - Roll Call

Members of Congress weighed in on a lower court ruling that would stop the manufacture and distribution of an abortion drug.

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