NEW YORK (AP) — Abortion-rights advocates are intensifying efforts to make it easier for women to get abortions amid a new wave of state-level bans and restrictions expected to occur under a reconfigured U.S. Supreme Court. The efforts include boosting financial aid for women needing to travel long distances to get an abortion, and raising […]
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Every current Supreme Court justice attended Harvard or Yale. Why that matters
WASHINGTON — It is not hard to see similarities between President Donald Trump’s last two Supreme Court nominees: They are both white male conservatives who attended Ivy League law schools, clerked for retiring Justice Anthony M. Kennedy and went to the same exclusive private prep school. The elite background does not end with them. If […]
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Donald Trump enjoys 'suspense' ahead of Supreme Court announcement
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is going down to the wire as he makes his choice on a replacement for retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, but he says with his final four options “you can’t go wrong.” Trump spoke to reporters Sunday afternoon before returning to Washington from a weekend at his private […]
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Supreme Court vacancy is perilous for Republicans
The Supreme Court vacancy presents more peril for Republicans than Democrats. Democrats want you to believe that somehow the president’s eventual nominee represents a frightening goose step to the right. They want you to think that freedoms and progress around gay marriage, all abortions, the environment and other liberal go-to causes would be eviscerated by […]
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Justice Kennedy’s LGBTQ legacy may be short-lived
Retiring U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy (AP file photo) Kennedy’s departure from the Supreme Court has, understandably, prompted widespread concern about Roe v. Wade and abortion rights. Less salient but equally at risk is the court’s progress on LGBTQ rights. While he was on the court, Kennedy was the decisive vote for the court’s 5-4 […]
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Will Trump’s Supreme Court justices show independence from him?
The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court gather for an official group portrait to include new Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, top row, far right, Thursday. June 1, 2017, at the Supreme Court Building in Washington. Seated, front row, from left are, Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, Chief Justice of the […]
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Experts disagree with Susan Collins on ‘precedent’
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, has a nuanced position on how the abortion issue will play into her assessment of President Trump’s next Supreme Court nominee, and several leading legal scholars say her reasoning does not stand up to scrutiny. Collins, a critical confirmation swing vote in the Senate, has repeatedly said that her primary […]
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Maine activists call on Susan Collins to ask hard questions of Supreme Court nominee
Republican Sen. Susan Collins may hold the fate of abortion rights in the United States in her hands. President Trump, who pledged to nominate only anti-abortion justices to the Supreme Court, is days away from announcing a Supreme Court nominee. And local and national organizations are ratcheting up the pressure on Collins, a pro-choice swing […]
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Democrats target Susan Collins in campaign against Supreme Court nominee
WASHINGTON — Liberal political strategists hope to block President Donald Trump’s next Supreme Court nominee by replaying a strategy they used to help defeat the Republican effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act last year. The multimillion-dollar plan of advertising and grass-roots activism will focus heavily on convincing two Republican defenders of the ACA, Sens. […]
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Donald Trump closes in on Supreme Court pick; 3 judges top list
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is closing in on his next Supreme Court nominee, with three federal judges leading the competition to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy. Trump’s top contenders for the vacancy at this time are federal appeals judges Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh and Raymond Kethledge, said a person familiar with Trump’s […]