Category: Supreme Court

By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. Friday’s look back at what appeared a year ago in NRL News Today is (as they say) a deep dive into a 1986 Supreme Court decision that befuddled even one of the justices who voted for Roe. V. Wade. Over at “Bench Memos,” Ed Whelan writes a provocative column he …

By Dave Andrusko An advantage to having been part of the Movement going back to the late 1970s is that you are somewhat better equipped to  recognize what is new, what is recycled, and what is being discussed again that has never been given its due. This is especially true when, as the Supreme Court …

By Dave Andrusko As is always the case, when the Supreme Court agrees to hear an abortion case, as it did on Monday, there inevitably ensues analyses of what polling data tells us about abortion and the public. Fair enough. What’s interesting to me is that two prominent outlets—the New York Times and FiveThirtyEight—both offered …

Court takes up Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization WASHINGTON — On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court granted a writ of certiorari in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, an abortion case concerning a Mississippi law passed in 2018. “We applaud the U.S. Supreme Court for examining the Mississippi law,” said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to …

Case will be heard in the fall By Dave Andrusko What a way to start the week! After months of internal deliberation, in a one-line notice the U.S. Supreme Court this morning announced that the justices had agreed to hear (“grant certiorari”) the appeal by the state of Mississippi in the case of its “Gestational …

By Dave Andrusko Here is the latest NRL News Today story in which we update readers on the Biden/Harris administration’s ongoing plan to gut the Trump Administration’s “Protect Life Rule” which required recipients of Title X family planning money not to co-locate with abortion clinics or refer clients for abortion as a method of family …

By Dave Andrusko This past Saturday, and, as far as I can tell with no fanfare, was the 164th anniversary of the day the Supreme Court handed down its awful Dred Scott v. Sanford decision. Each year I reflect back on this monumentally wrong decision.  A while back, writing in POLITICO, Andrew Glass observed On this day in 1857, the …

By Dave Andrusko Back in December we reported on the question of whether the Supreme Court would take  up conflicting appeals courts’ rulings over the constitutionality of the Trump administration’s “Protect Life Rule.” The rule was upheld nationwide by the Ninth Circuit, with the exception of Maryland where the Fourth Circuit blocked the rule from …

WASHINGTON—On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court granted a stay to a July 2020 decision by U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang that suspended the Food and Drug Administration’s rule, which among other things, requires a woman to have an in-person doctor’s visit before undergoing a chemical (“medication”) abortion during the COVID-19 pandemic. Under the FDA’s “Risk …

By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. We posted this a year ago. As part of our ongoing series of what appeared in NRL News Today 365 days ago, this tribute to Justice Thomas was followed by another story once I had seen the documentary. Somehow this went under my radar, but luckily there is still plenty …

By Dave Andrusko On January 8, 2021, the Supreme Court will consider whether to take up conflicting appeals courts’ rulings over the constitutionality of the Trump administration’s “Protect Life Rule.” The rule requires recipients of the Title X family planning money not to co-locate with abortion clinics or refer clients for abortion as a method …

By Dave Andrusko You have to give the Devil (so to speak) his due. The Satanic Temple is nothing if not diligent in its efforts to overturn a Missouri law that requires  a 72-hour waiting period before a woman has an abortion and that she receives “an informed-consent booklet” that “expresses Missouri’s view that ‘[t]he life …