Supreme Court

Leaders of abortion funds, which help people in need travel for their care, say travel distances and costs are only going to go up after the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade.

Former President Donald Trump introduced the policy in January 2019 until President Joe Biden suspended it on his first day in office in January 2021.

Democrats have pushed legislation through the House that would inscribe the right to use contraceptives into law.

After the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, a professor at Howard University wrote an Op-Ed discussing the 13th Amendment as a new plan to protect abortion rights. The amendment could satisfy the more originalist members of the Court and it would center Black people in the fight for abortion rights and bodily autonomy, professor Lisa Crooms-Robinson explains on...

Seventeen members of Congress were arrested Tuesday during an abortion rights protest outside the Supreme Court.

The U.S. House overwhelmingly approved legislation Tuesday to protect same-sex and interracial marriages amid concerns that the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade abortion access could jeopardize other rights criticized by many conservatives. In a robust but lopsided debate, Democrats argued intensely and often personally in favor of enshrining marriage equality in federal law, while Republicans steered clear of openly...

President Joe Biden says he’s considering declaring a public health emergency to free up federal resources to promote abortion access even though the White House has said it doesn’t seem like “a great option.”

President Joe Biden signed an executive order Friday to protect access to abortion and reproductive services in response to the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade.

Mississippi’s only abortion clinic has been buzzing with activity in the chaotic days since the U.S. Supreme Court upended abortion rights nationwide. The case originated in Mississippi with the bright pink medical facility called Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Physicians there have been trying to see as many patients as possible before the facility, best known as the Pink House, permanently...

A photo of Ginni Thomas and husband Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas drinking an expensive bottle of wine went viral after the Supreme Court ruled to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision. But a simple reverse image search shows the photo is actually from 2018, MediaWise campus correspondent Loren Miranda explains.

The Supreme Court’s latest climate change ruling could dampen efforts by federal agencies to rein in the tech industry, which went largely unregulated for decades as the government tried to catch up to changes wrought by the internet.

The Texas Supreme Court has blocked a lower court order that had allowed clinics in the state to continue performing abortions even after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned its landmark 1973 ruling that confirmed a constitutional right to abortion.

Abortion, guns and religion, a major change in the law in any one of these areas would have made for a fateful Supreme Court term.

Next term, the Supreme Court could rule on Moore v. Harper, a North Carolina case that could change the balance of power between a state’s legislature and its courts. That could have profound effects on elections and a state court’s ability to check the power of a state legislature, and limit the court’s influence on procedures like redistricting and voting...

After the U.S. Supreme Court last week voted to overturn landmark ruling Roe v. Wade, some outraged by the decision are calling for the impeachment of justices who they allege lied under oath.

A look at how the court ruling could impact efforts to slow global warming and other regulatory actions, from education to transportation and food.

There was a spike in search-engine interest for abortion pills following the leak of the Supreme Court draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade. The pills mifepristone and misoprostol, taken together, can end a pregnancy before it reaches 10 weeks, though the pills will be difficult to access for people who need them in states that have moved to ban abortion...

The Supreme Court’s decision eliminating the constitutional right to abortion is causing anxiety for people in same-sex marriages, particularly those with children.

The Supreme Court’s new climate change ruling is likely to hinder the Biden administration’s plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by the end of the decade and make the electric grid carbon-free by 2035.

Progress has been made in the 50-plus years since Republican President Richard Nixon signed the Clean Air Act in 1970 — the six most common pollutants have declined by more than 75%. Now the act is being limited by the Supreme Court’s decision in West Virginia v. EPA, LX News climate storyteller Chase Cain explains.