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President Joe Biden expressed concern Wednesday for the Supreme Court’s leaked draft opinion which could overturn precedent on abortion rights. “What are the next things that are going to be attacked?”

Grassroots organizers held major rallies Tuesday across New York City in support of abortion rights following a bombshell Politico report that a U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion appears likely to overturn Roe v. Wade this summer. NBC New York’s Linda Gaudino reports from Foley Square.

Abortion rights protests broke out across the U.S. after a Supreme Court draft opinion was leaked on Monday night which suggests Roe v. Wade could be overturned.

Senators Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Ted Cruz, R-Texas, discuss the leaked draft ruling that would overturn Roe v. Wade.

President Joe Biden spoke Tuesday after a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion threatening to overturn Roe v. Wade was published by Politico late Monday. “If the rationale of the decision as released were to be sustained, a whole range of rights are in question… it goes far beyond the concern of whether or not there is the right to choose.”

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An initial draft majority opinion that Politico obtained suggests the Supreme Court has voted to strike down the landmark abortion rights case.

Moments before the Senate began Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation vote to become the first Black woman on the Supreme Court, the chamber filled with the swell of history.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday reinstated, for now, a Trump-era rule that curtails the power of states and Native American tribes to block pipelines and other energy projects that can pollute rivers, streams and other waterways.

The Senate Judiciary Committee is pushing Ketanji Brown Jackson closer to confirmation, setting up a vote next week to recommend her nomination to the full Senate and seat her as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court said Friday morning that 73-year-old Justice Clarence Thomas had been released from a hospital stay.

The Supreme Court is declining to say whether 73-year-old Justice Clarence Thomas remains in the hospital

Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was asked what her message to young people was at her nomination hearing on Wednesday. Brown Jackson said it is the same message she was given by a stranger one day when she was feeling homesick and out of place at Harvard University.

“I’m not letting anybody in the Senate steal my joy,” Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., told Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. “I just look at you, and I start getting full of emotion.”

In her acceptance speech, Jackson also noted the mentorship of Justice Stephen Breyer, who is retiring at the end of the term this summer.

The Supreme Court of the United States has denied a request from a group of New York City public school teachers seeking to block a vaccine mandate for employees who were not given a religious exemption. Their appeal was directed to Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who handles cases from that region.  Sotomayor rejected an earlier challenge, filed in October, to...

City Hall braces for possible rally and protest against the job loss of approximately 3,000 city workers who remained unvaccinated by NYC vaccine mandate deadline on Feb 11th. Jessica Cunnington reports.

The Supreme Court refused Monday to halt a COVID-19 vaccine requirement for health care workers in New York that does not offer an exemption for religious reasons. The court acted on emergency appeals filed by doctors, nurses and other medical workers who say they are being forced to choose between their jobs and religious beliefs. As is typical in such…

Rutgers University will dedicate a residence hall in honor of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg next week, according to the institution of higher education. The university will rename 15 Washington Street, a 17-story neoclassical building that is a state-of-the-art residence hall and former law school, at 5 p.m. on Dec. 2. The building, which formerly housed…

The Supreme Court seems inclined to allow Kentucky’s Republican attorney general to continue defending a restriction on abortion rights that had been struck down by lower courts