With President Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to take the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat, the issue of reproductive rights has again become a hot button topic. While Ginsburg repeatedly voted against restrictions on birth control and abortion access, the historically conservative Barrett is expected to tip the…
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Supreme Court Partly Dodges First Abortion Case, Reaches Compromise in Indiana
The new majority Supreme Court had its first chance to take on an abortion rights case coming from the states and it compromised on it. The hotly-contested case comes from Indiana. On Tuesday, The Supreme Court upheld a part of Indiana’s 2016 law that places new restrictions on the disposal…
Archived: Republicans Try Redistricting Tactics to Gain Even More Power
Republicans are at it yet again, trying to play with numbers to gain even more power. There is a push led by none other than Iowa Rep. Steve King to disregard undocumented immigrants in the 2020 census. According to King, “The current policy under which illegal aliens are counted in…
Archived: Supreme Court Allows Trump's 'Muslim Ban 3.0' to Go into Effect
President Donald Trump kicked off the holiday season byretweeting racist, anti-Muslim videoson Wednesday, which garnered the praise ofDavid Duke, former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. Trump’s sentiment continued on Monday through the Supreme Court, whichcosigned on his travel ban thattargets people from six Muslim-majority countries. The court, except…
Archived: Is the Supreme Court Sexist
By Chris Hoenig Does the U.S. Supreme Court have a “blind spot” for women and women’s rights One justice thinks so. In a wide-ranging interview with Yahoo!’s Katie Couric, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she believes the court’s conservative justicesall of whom are malefurther revealed a “blind spot” for women…