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The case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, marks the most significant challenge to abortion rights in decades.

Anti-abortion petitioners in the Supreme Court case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health argue that Roe v. Wade should be overturned.

A Pennsylvania court overturned Cosby’s conviction and freed him from prison, a ruling that the Montgomery County DA called a “grievous wrong.”

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a Second Amendment dispute that could have a major impact on state rules for carrying firearms outside the home.

Some of the justices who had previously rejected a bid to block the Texas law signaled they were concerned about the way it was written.

Abortion and guns are front and center as the Supreme Court heads back to the bench to hear oral arguments in some of the term’s highest-profile cases.

The Biden administration and abortion-rights providers in separate briefs slammed the Texas law as unconstitutional and designed to avoid court review.

If the Supreme Court considers arguments to overturn Roe v. Wade’s precedent for abortion rights, “it should reject them,” the Justice Department said.

The arguments were filed in response to two separate petitions challenging the restrictive Texas law, which bans most abortions after as early as the sixth week of pregnancy.

Police reform advocates have called for an end to qualified immunity, arguing it insulates officers from accountability for wrongdoing.

The Justice Department said it will ask the Supreme Court to effectively halt the enforcement of a restrictive Texas abortion law while legal disputes play out.

The draft came as the Supreme Court is set to consider pivotal cases that center on politically polarizing issues, including abortion, guns and religion.

The Supreme Court heard arguments on whether the death sentence should be reinstated for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, convicted in the deadly Boston Marathon bombing.

The court recently voted not to block a Texas law banning most abortions, and it is set to consider a case challenging Roe v. Wade.

Supreme Court justices asked if the U.S. would allow a Guantanamo Bay detainee to testify about his alleged torture and confinement by the CIA.

The heavy police presence, which included dozens of officers and multiple police dogs, came on just the second of the Supreme Court’s new term.

The Supreme Court resumed in-person oral arguments for the first time since the Covid pandemic began, kicking off a politically fraught new term.

Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh has tested positive for COVID-19 according to a release from the high court

The high court said in a press release Friday that Kavanaugh has no symptoms and has been fully vaccinated since January. Kavanaugh and all the other justices had a routine coronavirus test ahead of Friday’s ceremonial investiture for Justice Amy Coney Barrett.

Kavanaugh, 56, is showing no symptoms of the virus, the court said. He has been fully vaccinated against Covid since January.