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Voters preserved abortion rights while making it harder for lawmakers to overturn citizen-approved measures. Anti-abortion Republicans are now looking for other ways to restrict access. Missouri Republicans spent two years trying to reinstate an abortion ban.
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Tuesday night was record-breaking. Next year, record numbers of women will serve in the House (at least 136) and as governors across the U.S. (at least 17). Both House and Senate majorities have flipped to Democratic control. We have women voters to thank for all of this.
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Click to expand Image A voter picks up an "I Voted" sticker after casting their ballot in the US midterm elections on November 3, 2026. © 2026 AP Photo/George Walker IV Alongside the high-profile congressional and gubernatorial races decided during the United States midterm elections on November 3,
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The midterms were a whirlwind of historic firsts as Black, trans, Indigenous, nonbinary, Muslim, and Gen Z candidates won their races. Democratic candidates made history in the 2026 United States midterm elections—not just because of how many races they won, but because of who won them.
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Democrats won big in Tuesday’s midterm elections, flipping at least 40 seats in the House and at least seven in the Senate. Come January, the Democratic Party will control both houses of Congress, which will allow it to set policymaking priorities and play a lead role in shaping the future of the Su
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This week, during the first half of the November argument session , the justices heard oral arguments in four cases and quickly declined a request from the Trump administration to intervene in a voting dispute in California.
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In April, Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas resigned after being accused of having improper relationships with staff, including a former staffer who died by suicide. The Republican who ran to replace him, gun influencer Brandon Herrera, known online as “the AK Guy,” had a long history of using
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When Leanna Rocheleau saw the ad that Ohio gubernatorial hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy created, weaponizing his opponent Dr. Amy Acton’s childhood sexual abuse, the Columbus-area mother and small business owner felt “triggered.” Rocheleau, like nearly half of all U.S.
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It was a bad Election Day for MAHA, and Zen Honeycutt wasn’t the least bit surprised. The Make America Healthy Again activist — part of the MAHA mom coalition who helped propel President Donald Trump back into office in 2024 — had read the tea leaves for months: No matter how much she and other orga
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Poll worker Bill Doze motions for the next voter to check in during early voting in St. Ann, Missouri. Laurie Skrivan/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via Getty Images Across the country on Tuesday, voters delivered a wave of Democratic victories, flipping seats in Congress as well as state legislatures, and
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Latino men swung back hard; Latinas swung back harder. Most Latinas didn’t back President Donald Trump in 2024, but enough of them did to help usher him back into the White House. Early data from this week’s midterms suggests that many of those women came swinging back toward De
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Against the backdrop of a blue wave across the country, multiple states passed ballot measures chipping away at trans kids’ rights. The Democratic tsunami that brought historic wins to candidates nationwide—including LGBTQ+ politicians—also delivered significant blows to trans rights.
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Democrats won big in an election defined by affordability. Now, they’ll have to deliver — and women will be watching. Typically the managers of household budgets, women make the vast majority of consumer purchases across the country, putting them face-to-face with the high cost of living that became
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LOS ANGELES — Nithya Raman is projected to become Los Angeles’ first Asian-American mayor and the second woman elected to the highest citywide office. After entering the race last minute to challenge incumbent Karen Bass, Raman ran a campaign following the playbook of other democratic socialist-alig
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This dashboard provides KFF’s analysis of the role abortion played in voters’ decisions in the 2026 midterm elections, with a focus on four states with abortion-related ballot measures: Idaho, Missouri, Nevada, and Virginia.
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Click to expand Image The US Capitol building in Washington, DC, November 4, 2026. © 2026 Umit Bektas/Reuters (Washington, DC) – The newly elected US Congress should prioritize respect and protection for human rights both within the United States and around the world, Human Rights Watch said today.
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One in three. That’s how many of the nation’s governors will be women next year. At least 17 women will lead states in 2027, breaking the previous record of 14, set in 2025. Every woman seeking reelection won. It was a historic night for women, and one worth celebrating.
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At 7:20 a.m. on Wednesday morning, Judge Penny Brown Reynolds had not yet been to bed. The night before, she was declared the winner of the secretary of state race in Georgia, the first Black person and the first Black woman to be elected to this office in state history.
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Even as abortion was not a top issue for voters in the midterm elections, Americans repeatedly rejected ballot initiatives and candidates they perceived as anti-abortion — a sign that reproductive rights have become a stand-in for broader questions of trust in lawmakers.
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Blog Post Move People and People Will Move Mountains: A Post-Election Letter Following the 2026 elections, we reflect on the power of organizing, physician advocacy, and the work still ahead. By Lisa Sangoi, Public Policy Director | November 4, 2026 Share https://prh.
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Press Release PRH Responds to Historic Midterms Share https://prh.org/press-releases/prh-responds-to-historic-midterms/ Click to print Print Icon Share this page via Email Mail Icon Rectangle in the shape of an envelope Share this page on Pinterest Share this page on Facebook Share this page on Twit
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Nebraska and Arizona have passed ballot measures to ban transgender student-athletes from playing on girls’ sports teams, marking a significant referendum on trans rights. As of Wednesday morning, similar ballot measures in Colorado and Washington are still undecided, although early projections sugg
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Six transgender and nonbinary candidates made history on Election Day by winning races in states that have never elected a trans person into their legislature before. These candidates will expand LGBTQ+ political power at a time when their rights are increasingly under attack nationwide.
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Democrats are projected to win back the U.S. House — and hit a major milestone. For the first time ever, at least 100 Democratic women are expected to serve in the chamber simultaneously. “Women made history because we showed up to vote, and then voted in more than 100 Democratic women to serve in t
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Missouri voters rejected an effort to overturn their state’s abortion protections, according to a projection by Decision Desk HQ, ensuring that the procedure will remain legal and enshrined in the state constitution despite dedicated efforts by Republican leadership.
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Republican women in Iowa, who once enjoyed gender parity in congressional representation, will have no seats when the next Congress is sworn in, losses that reflect a bigger trend on an election night where Democrats across the country flipped enough seats to take control of the House and Senate.
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For decades, Sen. Susan Collins defied the political odds to win reelection as a Republican senator in Democratic-leaning Maine. This year, her winning streak ended. Collins, first elected in 1996 and the longest-serving Republican woman senator, on Tuesday night conceded to her Democratic opponent,
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Virginia voters on Tuesday approved a constitutional amendment officially repealing the state’s ban on same-sex marriage, nearly 20 years to the day after it was adopted in 2006. With more than 95 percent of the vote in, Virginia’s Question 2 passed with 57 percent of the vote, according to Decision
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“Voters just delivered a new opportunity for political courage and conviction, where compromise on abortion rights has no place in the work that lies ahead. With a pro-abortion majority in Congress, we must swiftly work to craft federal protections that secure access to abortion throughout pregnancy
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Democrats are projected to take back the U.S. House — and women candidates got them there. More than half of all competitive House races this cycle featured women candidates from one or both parties. Women were also the Democratic nominees in 20 of the 41 most competitive seats held by Republicans.
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Incumbent Rep. Max Miller is projected to lose his reelection bid for Ohio’s 7th District after allegations of domestic violence surfaced during a contentious divorce that played out over the course of the general election.
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AUSTIN, Texas — Gina Hinojosa is set to become the next governor of Texas after voters denied Republican Gov. Greg Abbott a fourth term, a stunning upset by a state legislator who will become the first Latina to hold the Lone Star State’s top job.
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Native American women have secured two historic firsts on Tuesday. Democrat Deb Haaland is projected to become the first Native woman governor after winning her race in New Mexico, and Democrat Peggy Flanagan is set to become the first Native woman to secure a U.S.
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After one of the ugliest battles of the 2026 cycle, Democrat Dr. Amy Acton is projected to prevail over Republican Vivek Ramaswamy in her bid to be Ohio’s first woman elected governor, according to Decision Desk HQ.
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James Talarico will be the first Democrat to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate since 1994, Decision Desk HQ projects — a stunning upset in a race that hinged on conversations about masculinity and anti-transgender attacks.
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Dr. Annie Andrews, a pediatrician , is projected to win her state’s Senate race against Republican Darline Graham, according to Decision Desk HQ. She was originally slated to run against incumbent Sen. Lindsey Graham, who died suddenly in July.
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ATLANTA — Keisha Lance Bottoms is projected to become the next governor of Georgia and the nation’s first Black woman governor, according to Decision Desk HQ. Bottoms took the stage Tuesday night in front of a boisterous crowd waving “Madam Governor” signs.
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More than 30 years ago, then-Illinois state Rep. Carol Moseley Braun became the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Senate in a watershed year for women candidates. This year, another woman from Illinois — Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton — made history again.
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Republican Sen. Ashley Moody is projected to win reelection to the U.S. Senate, defeating Angie Nixon, a democratic socialist who animated Florida Democrats with her competitive bid in a state that has been out of reach for the party in the Trump era, according to Decision Desk HQ.
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In New Hampshire, Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas defeated former Sen. John Sununu, a Republican backed by President Donald Trump, according to projections by Decision Desk HQ. Pappas will be the first out gay man to serve in the upper chamber.
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared ready to hold that the exclusion of Catholic preschools in Colorado from the state’s universal preschool program violates the First Amendment. After just over two hours of oral argument in St. Mary Catholic Parish v.
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Tuesday, November 3, 2026: Today is the day! Today is also the day that, regardless of the midterm election results, history is being made. A record number of 72 Black women are on the midterm ballot nationwide. These women are running for the U.S.
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Happy Election Week! Ms. editors and contributors are paying particular attention to the races and ballot measures with the greatest implications for women, feminism and democracy. This election results guide began as the running list Ms.
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A bombshell has entered the villa: your U.S. Senate candidate. On Senate Island, the islanders are politicians and the connection they want to explore is between you and their policy platform. Into someone whose ideal first date is house hunting? Maybe you’d like Democrat James Talarico in Texas, wh
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In this column for Nature, Alina Salganicoff reviews efforts to improve women's health research during previous U.S. administrations that fell short of their promise and highlights the recommendations of a congressionally mandated committee aimed at improving women's health research at the National
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If there’s one thing Symone Sanders Townsend has never struggled with, it’s finding something to say. The former White House advisor has made a career out of speaking her mind, a quality that has earned her recognition in Washington and helped establish her presence on national television.
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Imagine going to your voting location and being turned away. Someone tells you, “You’re not registered to vote.” Now imagine that happening three separate times. Fortunately, this story has a happy ending.
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Marsha Blackburn made history in 2018 when she became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate from Tennessee. Now, she’s poised to make history again and become the state’s first woman governor in its 230-year history.
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A record 590 women filed to run for the U.S. House during the 2026 election cycle. Women candidates are also poised to make history in gubernatorial races across the country: Deb Haaland could become the nation's first Native American woman governor in New Mexico, while Keisha Lance Bottoms could be
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Click to expand Image Ekrem İmamoğlu in front of the courthouse in Istanbul, Türkiye where he received his official mandate to serve a second five-year term as Istanbul mayor after winning the March 31, 2024 municipal election, April 3, 2024.
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Right now, Republicans control not just the White House but both chambers of Congress. At the beginning of the year, the House seemed within Democrats’ reach in the midterm elections, and the Senate seemed like a long shot.
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Millions of Americans have already voted, millions more will head to the polls Tuesday. Meanwhile, courts across the country are confronting an extraordinary series of eleventh-hour demands from the Trump administration.
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In the four years since the U.S. Supreme Court ended the federal right to an abortion, state attorneys general have played central roles in both defending and eroding reproductive rights — and their power to do so extends far beyond their home states.
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Rewire News Group is tracking referenda on abortion access, trans kids in sports, and marriage equality in the 2026 midterms. In the 2026 midterm election, nine states have ballot measures asking voters to consider abortion access, LGBTQ+ rights, and non-discrimination initiatives.
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KISSIMMEE, Florida — Two years ago, Jena-Lisa Jones voted for President Donald Trump for one reason and one reason only: his and his allies’ promise to release millions of files connected to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who abused her and hundreds of other known victims.
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Marie (a pseudonym) lay on the cold examination table again, watching as the doctor moved the ultrasound wand across her belly. Eight months pregnant, after suffering a miscarriage in August 2025, she was navigating a high-risk pregnancy complicated by avascular necrosis, a condition that eventually
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As Americans head to the polls, affordability is top of mind for most U.S. voters: Ninety percent of them say the cost of living is a “very” or “extremely” important issue for candidates to discuss But when it comes to the “affordability” conversation, one major financial burden often gets overlooke
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A woman’s vote belongs to her and no one else. It is a fundamental expression of her independence, her judgment and her equal standing in American democracy. Yet some Christian nationalist leaders are openly advocating for "household voting"—a system in which husbands would typically cast ballots fo
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MAGA Republicans are back in the White House, and Project 2025 is their guide: the right-wing plan to turn back the clock on women’s rights, remove abortion access, and force women into roles as wives and mothers in the “ideal, natural family structure.
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“My mom ran for City Council [in Philadelphia] when I was in high school, and I was fascinated by the political process,” Kristen Welker tells ESSENCE . It was a “very contentious” race, and Welker recalls reporters who covered the election focusing on the fact that her mother, a Black woman, was ma
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Four years ago, Karen Bass became the first woman elected mayor of Los Angeles. Born and raised on the West Side of the city, Bass first gave back to her community as a physician assistant before founding the Community Coalition in South Los Angeles in 1990.
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[Newsletter ad — view on SCOTUSblog] It was a relatively quiet week at the court, as the justices – and the SCOTUSblog team – prepared for the November argument session to begin next week. On the interim docket, the court decided one immigration-related dispute and moved closer to being able to deci
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TV spots from Vivek Ramaswamy in Ohio and Steve Hilton in California show a deep disdain for women. It’s midterm election season, and we’re being bombarded with incessant political advertising as usual.
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Munira Abdullahi was having a particularly terrible week. It was one week before the midterm elections, and her phone kept pinging: another Islamophobic post falsely claiming she was a terrorist, an enemy to America and a communist.
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CINCINNATI — When Cindy Cromwell saw the TV ad that Republican Vivek Ramaswamy created with Democrat Dr. Amy Acton’s estranged mother saying she lied about documented childhood abuse , Cromwell’s immediate reaction was “revulsion” — but not shock.
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In the midterm elections, women are poised to celebrate historic firsts, especially when it comes to governor races. We sit on the precipice of potentially electing the first woman governors in Tennessee, Ohio and Minnesota.
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If Democrats retake the U.S. Senate in Nov., we should expect any number of drastic reactions from Republicans desperate to cling to power. Among them could be a last-ditch effort to extend their control of the Supreme Court by rushing a lame duck confirmation process should Justices Thomas and/or A
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RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas — When Cynthia Villareal voted for President Donald Trump in 2024, she did so trusting his campaign promises of lower gas prices, border security and “assistance for the people — for the middle class.
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It would be hard to pin down the exact location of Peggy Flanagan, Keisha Lance Bottoms and Gina Hinojosa at any given time these days. For these criss-crossing campaigns locked in tight statewide races, the only option is onward — to a Savannah barbershop, toward a reservation in the far corners of
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Rewire News Group is tracking abortion ballot measures, referenda on trans rights, and midterm races that stand to affect reproductive justice in the United States. Editor’s note: Rewire News Group is covering the 2026 midterm elections with a focus on reproductive justice. On Nov.
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Kansas’ embattled Republican Sen. Roger Marshall is embracing the support of anti-abortion activists in his closing reelection pitch to voters — including the leader of an organization that has promoted violence against abortion providers and conservative pastors who have compared abortion to human
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Anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric has reached the point where accusing Democratic candidates of being transgender is not only commonplace, but encouraged by the president of the United States — including into the eleventh hour of the midterms.
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In every issue of Ms. , we track research on our progress in the fight for equality, catalogue can’t-miss quotes from feminist voices and keep tabs on the feminist movement’s many milestones. We’re Keeping Score online, too, in this biweekly roundup.
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Women have been at the forefront of a fast-growing, bipartisan backlash to data centers , packing local meetings, organizing protests and even running for office. Now, less than a week from Election Day, some are saying it’s reshaping how they plan to vote.
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Missourians voted to enshrine reproductive rights into the state constitution in 2024. This year, they’ll be asked if they want to repeal that measure. Missouri Republicans are hoping that 2026 midterm election voters will revoke the abortion rights they chose to write into the state constitution ju
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The 2016 election changed how Tanya Miller felt about politics. The 2024 election — President Donald Trump’s defeat of then-Vice President Kamala Harris — changed how she saw her career. “Who I viewed as one of the most qualified folks to ever run for president got beat by a convicted felon,” she sa
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This column first appeared in The Amendment, a newsletter by Errin Haines, The 19th’s editor-at-large. Subscribe today to get early access to her analysi s. Since 1789, only one out of every 400 people who have ever walked the halls of Congress as a U.S. senator has been a Black woman.
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Leila Kuguru has big dreams of attending law school to become a federal prosecutor or public defender. On campus, Kuguru, a senior political science major at Clark Atlanta University, serves as the chair of CAU Votes, a student-led civic engagement organization.
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This election, hunger weighs heavily on the ballot—particularly for voters who care about women. From Gaza to Cuba, from USAID to SNAP, current U.S. food policies reveal a troubling pattern of misogyny. Food abounds in U.S.
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This story was reported in partnership with Uncloseted Media , an LGBTQ-focused investigative news outlet. Max Sorgenfrey was sipping a coffee at a cafe in Charleston, South Carolina, in early October when her phone began lighting up with messages.
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Seven in 10 Indian Americans disapprove of the job President Donald Trump is doing, according to the Carnegie Endowment's 2026 Indian American Attitudes Survey—a sharper rebuke than he gets from the American public as a whole.
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PEEKSKILL, New York — Betsy Abrams, a 67-year-old executive assistant, showed up at a political rally held in a park on the banks of the Hudson River wearing a shirt that read, “Sit over there, I don’t need your mansplaining.
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Record spending on state and federal races is defining the 2026 election cycle, with an unprecedented share of the money coming from billionaire megadonors, corporations and “dark money” nonprofits that don’t disclose their donors.
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Republican Mike Beltran, a former Florida legislator running to flip the state’s 14th Congressional District, filed a defamation lawsuit against a woman who had been trafficked as a teen — part of his legal work for an associate of Matt Gaetz who is being accused alongside the former congressman of
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BOZEMAN, Montana — Before the evening meet-and-greet with Democratic candidates, Katie Fire Thunder has already participated in a photo shoot, put together freshly printed campaign signs with her staff and filmed an endorsement with a state senator for her Instagram page.
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Click to expand Image President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva voting in the second round of the 2022 presidential election, São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil. © 2022 Rovena Rosa/Agência Brasil (São Paulo, October 25, 2026) – Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who has been reelected as Brazil’s president, shou
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Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation in politics, on boards, in sports and entertainment, in judicial offices and in the private sector in the U.S. and around the world ... with a little gardening and goodwill mixed in for refreshment.
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A Republican district attorney in West Texas has opened a criminal investigation into pamphlets mailed to homes across Texas purporting to come from a transgender rights organization. Sarah Stogner, district attorney for Loving, Reeves and Ward counties west of Odessa, told The Texas Tribune that he
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The interim docket dominated court news this week. Among other developments, the court declined to allow the Trump administration to implement its new transgender inmate policy and then received a new application from the administration addressing a block on border wall construction in the Big Bend
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Plus, fired Planned Parenthood affiliate’s staff sue over alleged retaliation, and the Supreme Court deals a blow to the Trump administration’s anti-trans agenda. Missouri GOP hopes to undo 2024 abortion amendment With early voting underway, Missourians are weighing an anti-abortion ballot measure .
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The 2026 midterm elections are already underway. Whether you're voting early, mailing your ballot or planning to head to the polls on Tuesday, Nov. 3, consider these eight free, trusted resources your go-to guide for voting in the 2026 midterms: Election Protection Hotline : Call or text 866-OUR-VOT
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Lawmakers are calling for the immediate release of 24-year-old Maria Alejandra Valero Brinez, who said she is five months pregnant and having potentially dangerous complications while detained in Arizona’s Eloy Detention Center.
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The governor’s race between Keisha Lance Bottoms and Rick Jackson is a toss-up. We asked University of Georgia students about the issues that matter to them in 2026. This story is a collaboration between Rewire News Group and Fuller .
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ATLANTA — Donald Trump carved his path to reelection through Georgia, and less than two years into his term, Keisha Lance Bottoms told a crowd here that the president’s policies haven’t just raised prices, “he’s also raised blood pressure.
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WOOSTER, OHIO — Gaile Noble, a 76-year-old retired social worker and Democrat, has lived in a deep-red part of Ohio her entire life and has been represented by a Republican in Congress for almost all of it.
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U.S. voters have legal protections when they cast their ballots, including rights to assistance in certain circumstances. Whether you encounter a long wait, a question about your registration or someone trying to intimidate you, you don’t have to figure out the next step alone.
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Republican Vivek Ramaswamy is closing out one of the nastiest races of the 2026 cycle by suggesting that Democrat Amy Acton, his opponent in the Ohio governor’s race, has lied about the well-documented childhood sexual abuse she experienced for political gain.
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This story was reported in partnership with Uncloseted Media , an LGBTQ-focused investigative news outlet. Texas’ Senate race has become one of the most-watched elections of the year. MAGA Republican nominee Ken Paxton pulled off a rare primary defeat against a well-established 24-year incumbent, wh
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Voters in seven states will decide how trans youth can participate in school sports, access gender-affirming health care, and more. This story was originally reported by Brooke Migdon of The 19th , and republished through Rewire News Group ‘s partnership with the 19th News Network.
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Two years ago, six White suburban mothers were among the more than 77 million Americans who voted to put President Donald Trump back in the White House. Now, they say they regret it. In a recent focus group convened by Navigator Research, a Democratic polling and public opinion firm, and shared excl
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Beatrice Caciotti for ProPublica. Source images: Getty Images, Hawaii News Now, South Carolina Department of Transportation. On March 3, 2020, Sen. Lindsey Graham walked into a private dining room at Charlie Palmer Steak in Washington, D.C. Graham’s time was expensive.
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This column first appeared in The Amendment, a newsletter by Errin Haines, The 19th’s editor-at-large. Subscribe today to get early access to her analysi s. Most people had no idea who Angie Nixon was until a few months ago.
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Federal policies shape women’s lives across the country—in our workplaces, schools, healthcare systems and homes, in red and blue states alike. For example, federal workforce reductions undermine economic security and career opportunities for Black women, who have historically constituted a substant
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John Jay , the first chief justice, was sworn in on this day in 1789. At the Court In a new petition for review , the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to limit courts’ ability to vacate federal agency actions. For more on the case, see the On Site section below.
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Voters in seven states this fall will weigh more than half a dozen ballot initiatives with direct bearings on LGBTQ+ people — disproportionately on transgender youth. They come as LGBTQ+ rights issues feature heavily in campaigns for candidates on either side of the aisle in the final stretch of Nov
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The ad opens with a shot of a quiet neighborhood street in western Nebraska, a bright red content warning about sexual assault splashed across the top of the frame. “I have a story to tell,” a woman’s voice states, “about our senator, Pete Ricketts.
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PACs targeted former West Virginia Delegate Vernon Criss following his proposal to rein in state spending on school vouchers. Will Price/West Virginia Legislature On a cold February morning at West Virginia’s Capitol, children in winter jackets, holding signs and their homework, clogged the hallways
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Click to expand Image Officials from the Syrian Ministry of Defense hold a press conference announcing the launch of the National Defense Sciences University in Damascus, Syria, July 13, 2026. © 2026 Rami Alsayed/NurPhoto via AP Photo (Beirut, October 16, 2026) – Syrian authorities have imposed admi
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This week, the second and final one of the October sitting, the justices heard two oral arguments and added three cases to the oral argument docket while continuing to manage emergency applications. We’re expecting an order list on Monday, but, after that, things should be a little quieter at One Fi
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Avery Rowland, a transgender woman in small-town Kansas, is running as a Democrat to represent a state legislative district in the bottom-right corner of the state, about two hours south of Kansas City. She wants to bring more highways, hospitals and schools to her rural, deep-red district.
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Justice Clarence Thomas was confirmed to the Supreme Court 35 years ago today. In May, he became the second-longest-serving justice in Supreme Court history. At the Court On Wednesday, the justices heard oral argument in Salazar v.
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Margaret Flatley for ProPublica Some 86 years ago, Missouri voters enshrined a system for selecting top judges that would remove political influence from the courts. And almost immediately, it came under attack.
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Earlier this year, SCOTUSblog published the first Interim Relief Docket Stat Pack, a statistical portrait of the Supreme Court’s interim/emergency/shadow docket for the 2024-25 term. Now that the 2025-26 term has concluded, Taraleigh Davis produced a second edition of this stat pack , which we relea
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Voters are increasingly concerned about threats to their rights, democracy and the 2026 elections, a new national poll from the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights shows. The 2026 Civil Rights Monitor found 82 percent of voters are concerned that rights and freedoms are being taken away
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This story was reported in partnership with Uncloseted Media , an LGBTQ-focused investigative news outlet. On September 14, far-right influencer Chaya Raichik, known online as Libs of Tiktok, attacked a Washington state high school on Facebook for displaying a Pride flag.
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Republicans running for governor across the country are backing away from abortion bans they once endorsed. U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany, the Republican candidate for governor in Wisconsin, calls his state’s 20-week abortion limit “settled law.
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Federal agents on Monday searched the Washington-area home of U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota and member of the “Squad” who has been a frequent critic — and target — of Republican President Donald Trump.
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Hallie Shoffner grew up in the Arkansas Delta, left to earn a bachelor’s degree at Vanderbilt, then came home to become a farmer. She followed her parents into a business that had been in the family for 150 years. In 2025, she was forced to close the farm.
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On this day in 1932, President Herbert Hoover laid the cornerstone of the Supreme Court Building amid its construction. The court held its first session in the building three years later . At the Court On Friday, the justices met in a private conference to discuss cases and vote on petitions for rev
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Kristen Clarke was just weeks into her job as the NAACP’s top lawyer this spring when the Supreme Court’s conservative bloc dealt what she described as the second of two “devastating blows” to the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
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Jovelle Tamayo/ProPublica. Source images: Zaydee Sanchez/ProPublica, Tina Russell for ProPublica, MPfoto71/Alamy. It wasn’t the kind of call a grocery store gets every day. A customer with a thick Eastern European accent was on the phone saying he wanted to buy several thousand cans of Red Bull.
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A candidate for the U.S. House in Florida and the hosts of an antiabortion podcast recently debated whether abortion bans should include exceptions for rape and incest. The candidate said he hoped people in those circumstances would choose “to have the baby” and allow God to take a crime and make “s
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The Supreme Court Building is closed today for Columbus Day. In recognition of that, this is an abridged edition of SCOTUStoday. On Sept. 28, Amy, along with attorney Masha Hansford and reporter Greg Stohr, previewed the 2026-27 term at a National Constitution Center event.
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GRIMES, Iowa — Zach Lahn looked out into a crowded room of potential Iowa voters. When he spoke, it was no surprise that the Republican nominee led with the two issues he’d brought up most often on the campaign trail: Iowa’s increasing cancer rates, and whether the state’s water has something to do
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The justices heard oral arguments this week in four cases – and denied review in hundreds of others – as the 2026-27 term officially got underway. Additionally, a dispute on broadcasting rates for political ads returned to the interim docket, where it joined a still-pending application on transgende
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The Global Black Economic Forum (GBEF) and ESSENCE are bringing back Paint the Polls Black , a three-part virtual town hall series meant to help voters prepare for the Nov. 3 midterm elections, the organizations announced this week. The town halls will air on consecutive Mondays from 8 to 9:30 p.m.
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This series is a collaboration between States Newsroom and The 19th. Nearly 50 million voters ages 18 to 29 are eligible to cast ballots in November, making Generation Z a prized cohort of the electorate.
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The Supreme Court may be done with oral arguments for the week, but you don’t have to be done listening to people discuss this term’s cases. SCOTUSblog’s Zach Shemtob is part of Pacific Legal Foundation’s virtual term preview event, which will take place today from noon to 1 p.m. EDT.
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BATH, Maine — Election after election, Republican Sen. Susan Collins has defied national political winds to return to office, representing a state that has backed Democrats in every presidential contest since 1992.
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When Shannon Taylor became the top prosecutor in a central Virginia county in 2012, she said she found a system that wasn’t delivering justice in the face of complicated sex trafficking cases: Women were being regularly arrested at local motels, while the men who preyed on them, got them engaged in
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This story is part of Gen Z at the Ballot Box, a collaboration between States Newsroom and The 19th. TOPEKA, Kansas — After state Rep. Angel Roeser defied her fellow Republicans and voted against their plan to ask voters to change the way Kansas Supreme Court justices are selected, members of her ow
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Yesterday was publication day for Justice Samuel Alito, who drew on his past speeches to write a book – So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country – on his judicial philosophy. At the Court On Tuesday, the justices heard oral argument in Anderson v.
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Ohio, North Carolina, and Michigan have open seats on their state supreme courts. These hotly contested races will influence how those courts rule in several high-stakes cases. In the heated news coverage of what’s at stake in the 2026 midterms , state supreme court races are drawing relatively litt
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This story was reported in partnership with Uncloseted Media , an investigative LGBTQ nonprofit newsroom. ATLANTA AND CARTERSVILLE, Georgia — Bentley Hudgins is a 33-year-old democratic socialist who spent the past three years advocating for LGBTQ+ rights in the Georgia statehouse.
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This story is part of Gen Z at the Ballot Box, a collaboration between States Newsroom and The 19th. Strike up a conversation with a Gen Z woman about politics, and affordability will likely come up within the first 30 seconds.
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It’s the first Monday in October, which means it’s the first day of a new Supreme Court term. Amy commented on what to watch in the months ahead in an interview with PBS News . At the Court The Supreme Court will release an order list this morning at 9:30 a.m. EDT.
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New polling from The 19th and YouGov found that support for child care spending was particularly strong among Gen Z, reflecting how affordability shapes their future family planning. This story was originally reported by Chabeli Carrazana of The 19th , and republished through Rewire News Group ‘s pa
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LA CROSSE, Wisconsin — September is both campaign season and parade season in Wisconsin, as communities across the state celebrate Oktoberfest and the harvest of fall crops like apples and pumpkins. And many Democrats say a candidate can gauge how the November general election will go by the reactio
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[Newsletter ad — view on SCOTUSblog] The 2026-27 term doesn’t officially start until Monday, but the Supreme Court was busy this week adding cases to the oral argument docket, addressing emergency applications, and announcing a significant last-minute recusal.
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Most Americans think the federal government should increase spending on childcare, and one group of voters more than any other is in favor of that change: Gen Z. Data from a new The 19th/YouGov poll found that 52 percent of U.S.
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Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath Bob Daemmrich for The Texas Tribune A little-known effort to bring an artificial intelligence tool into Texas public schools began about a year ago, with the help of the state’s top education official, Mike Morath.
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Rep. LaMonica McIver on Thursday announced the birth of her second child, a girl. “There really aren’t words to describe how blessed my family feels to welcome a new life into the world,” said the New Jersey Democrat, who has spoken previously about her struggles with fertility.
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This story is part of Gen Z at the Ballot Box, a collaboration between States Newsroom and The 19th. WINDHAM, Maine – As 24-year-old Maya Brooks walked winding roads in rural parts of Maine, a water bottle hooked to her fanny pack and a stack of “lit” on absentee voting and candidates her group has
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More than two-thirds of Americans say that immigrants who are pregnant, nursing or have recently given birth should generally not be held in immigration detention, according to a new 19th News/YouGov poll.
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This story is part of Gen Z at the Ballot Box, a collaboration between States Newsroom and The 19th. Brenna Vandergeest was a teenager when her grandmother told her about Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court case that ended the federal right to an abortion .
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Republican candidates in two pivotal North Carolina races are being taken to task for their public association with convicted sex offenders who served time for taking indecent liberties with children. Former North Carolina GOP chair Michael Whatley—the Republican candidate for the U.S.
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Justice Benjamin R. Curtis resigned from the Supreme Court on this day in 1857. He is perhaps best known for leaking his dissenting opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford before the ruling was handed down, enabling at least one newspaper to predict – and then report on – the decision in advance.
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Republicans have manufactured a crisis in women’s sports, just in time for the midterm elections. Democrats should find the courage to defend trans children—or at the very least, leave them alone. Women’s sports hasn’t historically been a big issue for Republicans, so why is it all anyone can talk a
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Republicans have manufactured a crisis in women’s sports, just in time for the midterm elections. Democrats should find the courage to defend trans children—or at the very least, leave them alone. Women’s sports hasn’t historically been a big issue for Republicans, so why is it all anyone can talk a
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This year, The 19th is partnering with YouGov for our annual State of Our Nation poll, shedding light on issues that impact women and LGBTQ+ people and helping us better understand our country. We aim to ask different questions than most other polls.
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This is The 19th’s fifth annual poll gauging attitudes on the issues impacting women and LGBTQ+ people. We have a new partner in YouGov, and we have fascinating new questions on feminism, reproductive issues, immigration, affordability and many of the other biggest issues that are shaping our politi
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High prices and the cost of living are top issues for the voters who will decide the midterm elections in November. And women are more worried than men about paying for necessities in every category, from groceries and housing to healthcare and retirement, according to new polling from The 19th and
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Nearly half of U.S. adults say they’re more likely to vote for a candidate who supports banning transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports teams, according to a new The 19th/YouGov poll — a position embraced by most Republican candidates and an increasing share of Democrats as November’s mi
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Speaking to a crowd of supporters in central Florida in August, U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds denounced his soon-to-be general election opponent for governor, Democrat David Jolly, as a “Trojan horse” for progressive politics in the reliably red state.
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President Donald Trump took to social media this weekend to amplify attacks against Republican Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, resharing posts suggesting that she was disloyal for criticizing his immigration agenda and should be replaced on the ticket less than 40 days until the election.
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In the headline for my July 6 story revisiting the major interim docket matters that kept the justices busy during last year’s summer recess, I posed a question about the months ahead. “This year,” I asked, “will they actually get a break?” Nearly three months later, we know the answer: not so much.
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So long, summer recess. Today’s “long conference” – the subject of this morning’s Closer Look – marks the unofficial start of the 2026-27 term. (The official start is the first day of oral arguments on Oct. 5.
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MCALLEN, Texas — Vanessa Ovalle has a “frontline view” of Texas schools as a single mom and a speech pathologist at a local school in McAllen, a city in the Rio Grande Valley bordering Mexico. Ovalle described the state’s education system as “completely disappointing.
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President Donald Trump is trying to create a role for the president in running and overseeing elections. That’s not how the Constitution works. The effort to interfere with the November midterms isn’t going to consist of a single, dramatic event on Election Day.
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The Supreme Court on Friday cleared the way for the Trump administration to move forward with its plan to use a modified centralized database to verify voters’ citizenship. In a seven-page opinion issued just 39 days before the Nov.
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[Newsletter ad — view on SCOTUSblog] This week may have fallen within the Supreme Court’s summer recess, but it wasn’t exactly restful for the justices – or for the team behind this newsletter. There was a flurry of activity in the ongoing battle over Missouri redistricting, which, on Tuesday, made
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Texas’ highest criminal court on Thursday rejected an appeal from prosecutors seeking to reinstate the 2018 conviction of Crystal Mason, a Fort Worth woman sentenced to five years in prison for illegally casting a ballot that wasn’t counted in 2016.
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Over the summer, Judge Joshua Divine of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri issued an unusual (to put it mildly) “ sentencing opinion .” The defendant in the case pleaded guilty to receiving child sexual abuse material (the allegations were that he had engaged in sexual acts
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[Newsletter ad — view on SCOTUSblog] Join us today at 1 p.m. EDT on LinkedIn Live for a discussion between Amy and Briefly’s Adam Stofsky about the upcoming term . At the Court Late on Tuesday, the dispute over congressional redistricting in Missouri returned to the Supreme Court’s interim docket, w
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[Newsletter ad — view on SCOTUSblog] Justice John Marshall Harlan II resigned from the Supreme Court on this day in 1971 while dealing with “ failing health .” He died of cancer three months later. Please consider joining us on LinkedIn Live tomorrow for a discussion between Amy and Briefly’s Adam S
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Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon, who won the Democratic nomination for a U.S. Senate seat in an August primary upset, can now focus on her upcoming election without having to deal with potential prison time.
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As health care costs dominate the national political conversation, our 2026 KFF Women’s Health Survey shows the toll those costs are taking on women. Our new nationally representative survey of women and men ages 18–64 finds costs remain a major barrier for women, specifically — causing everything f
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[Newsletter ad — view on SCOTUSblog] One year ago, the Supreme Court in an interim docket decision cleared the way for President Donald Trump to remove FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter from office while her challenge to her firing continued and announced that it would hear argument on the presiden
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Beatrice Caciotti for ProPublica. Source images: U.S. Sen. Susan Collins’ official Facebook page. In the final weeks of 2019, a top fundraiser for Sen. Susan Collins walked into a perilous meeting at a Corner Bakery in Washington, D.C.
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Plus, the EPA will test drinking water for abortion pills, and why SCOTUS may weigh in on a multi-state surrogacy fight. Each week, Rewire News Group editors scour headlines nationwide—from lawsuits over abortion access to LGBTQ+ rights—to bring you the most urgent news in reproductive justice.
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[Newsletter ad — view on SCOTUSblog] Forty-five years ago today, the Senate unanimously confirmed Sandra Day O’Connor’s appointment to the Supreme Court. At the Court The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to clear the way for it to use the Department of Homeland Security’s Systematic
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In every issue of Ms. , we track research on our progress in the fight for equality, catalogue can’t-miss quotes from feminist voices and keep tabs on the feminist movement’s many milestones. We’re Keeping Score online, too—in this biweekly roundup.
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Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation in politics, on boards, in sports and entertainment, in judicial offices and in the private sector in the U.S.
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[Newsletter ad — view on SCOTUSblog] Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on this day in 2020 after 27 years on the Supreme Court. Please consider joining us on LinkedIn Live on Thursday, Sept. 24, for a discussion between Amy and Briefly’s Adam Stofsky about the upcoming term.
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Four years after the fall of Roe v. Wade, abortion — which defined the 2022 midterms and much of the subsequent presidential campaign — has largely receded from the spotlight as 2026 candidates focus on issues of affordability, the proliferation of data centers and the prolonged war in Iran.
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The annual SCOTUSblog Summit, held on Wednesday at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center, featured a variety of panels on several different topics concerning the Supreme Court. The first session was with Elizabeth Prelogar, who served as the solicitor general of the United States during the
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Sen. Jon Ossoff of Georgia is running one of the most competitive 2026 campaigns as he seeks a second term. He’s emerged as a breakout star communicator and has been floated as a 2028 presidential contender. And a lot of people on the internet think he’s really hot.
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[Newsletter ad — view on SCOTUSblog] Thanks to all who joined us at our term preview event yesterday at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C., presented by Cooley. For a brief summary of the event, see the On Site section below.
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The case argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. constitutions. It is the first lawsuit over a death linked to an abortion ban. This story was originally reported by Shefali Luthra of The 19th , and republished through Rewire News Group ‘s partnership with the 19th New
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The first-ever congressional hearing on menopause is coming with a request to the federal government: Evaluate how to better fund treatment and research of menopause and healthcare for middle-aged women. New York Sen.
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[Newsletter ad — view on SCOTUSblog] Today, SCOTUSblog and Johns Hopkins University are coming together to preview the cases and questions that will shape the 2026-27 Supreme Court term. This event , which is presented by Cooley, will include a keynote address featuring Sen.
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For decades, Democratic and Republican administrations alike presided over a medical research system that routinely excluded women. The result? Modern medicine was built on incomplete science—and women are still paying the price.
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As Republicans gathered in Dallas, Texas for their pre-midterm convention last week, Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico focused on survivors of Jeffrey Epstein. Talarico got a tour of the Reading Room, a traveling exhibit of the nearly 3 million files that the Department of Justice released fr
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[Newsletter ad — view on SCOTUSblog] Chief Justice William Howard Taft, who famously joined the Supreme Court after serving as president, was born on this day in 1857. Jordan Lorence recently wrote for SCOTUSblog about the concept of “ Taft-maxxing ” (yes, you read that right).
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Talarico’s comments on Fox News came in contrast to positions he took in the Texas House opposing GOP restrictions on trans student-athletes. Democratic U.S. Senate nominee James Talarico on Sept. 9, 2026 said he opposed transgender student-athletes competing in girls’ sports “if it endangers safety
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The Supreme Court on Monday declined to allow the U.S. Postal Service to carry out parts of a new rule on mail-in voting. In a brief, unsigned order , the justices left in place a ruling by a federal judge in Boston that bars the USPS from implementing aspects of the rule.
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What happened: Rep. Jasmine Crockett, a Texas Democrat, took the stage in Arlington, Texas, on Saturday to honor R&B singer Chris Brown, delivering official congressional remarks highlighting his career. (She also honored Usher, but people are generally not mad about that.
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Even before gay marriage was legal in Virginia, Bob Connelly referred to Bob Witeck as his husband. The couple met in 1994, after Connelly interviewed Witeck’s business partner for an episode of “Gay Spectrum,” a public-access cable television program in Fairfax County.
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This is the fifth of seven introductory articles on the relevance for constitutional law and the Supreme Court of the “born free and equal” clauses, which appeared in the Declaration of Independence and in six out of 12 state constitutions when the federal Bill of Rights was ratified in 1791, in 24
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[Newsletter ad — view on SCOTUSblog] Today is Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s birthday. Born in 1970, Jackson has served on the Supreme Court since 2022. At the Court On Friday, the Supreme Court dismissed a case on whether certain noncitizens have a right to a bond hearing that had been scheduled f
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Democrats are trying to flip the U.S. House, currently narrowly controlled by Republicans, in November. And while all 435 House seats are up for election in 2026, only a handful of competitive races will determine which party will control the chamber come January.
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Welcome to SCOTUSblog’s recurring series in which we interview experts on different supreme courts around the world and how they compare with our own. Today’s column focuses on Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court.
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[Newsletter ad — view on SCOTUSblog] Today is the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who was a White House attorney in 2001 and has described 9/11 as “the most memorable, searing, important day” of his life, will speak at a Notre Dame event commemorating the anniversary.
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With just two months until the midterm elections, voters across party lines are looking for candidates who are willing to take on corruption, hold powerful abusers accountable and demand the full release of the Epstein files.
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America PAC, Elon Musk’s super PAC supporting conservative candidates and causes, is churning out dozens of digital ads vilifying transgender people and criticizing Democratic candidates over their past support for trans rights in the hopes of driving Republicans out to the polls in November.
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Twenty-five years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, many Muslim Americans are still perceived in ways shaped by 9/11 and continue to face discrimination, bigotry and suspicion. Muslim women, many of whom wear a visible identifier of their faith, often find themselves targets for wha
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DALLAS — Democratic U.S. Senate nominee James Talarico on Wednesday said he opposed transgender student-athletes competing in girls’ sports “if it endangers safety or fairness,” reversing course on previous positions he took while in the Texas House opposing restrictions on trans athletes.
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Court reform is a hot topic these days. Scholars , commentators , and politicians argue that the Supreme Court is aggrandizing its powers at the expense of Congress, undermining American democracy, and facilitating the Trump administration’s authoritarian overreach both with substantive rulings like
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As we recently announced , SCOTUSblog is launching SCOTUSblog Plus , a membership service providing even more analysis and reporting on the court's arguments, orders, and decisions. Starting Tuesday, Sept.
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It’s not unusual for presidential administrations to cheer on job numbers, as the White House has been doing since a Friday report . They have celebrated women’s employment, pointing to figures that show that the vast majority of net job growth in August — and since President Donald Trump took offic
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California, joined by a group of 22 states and the District of Columbia, urged the Supreme Court on Wednesday to leave in place a ruling by a federal judge in Boston that prohibits the Trump administration from implementing parts of a U.S. Postal Service rule on mail-in ballots.
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Justice William Paterson died on this day in 1806. Among other things, he was the subject of a recent Closer Look . At the Court On Tuesday, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to clear the way for it to use the Department of Homeland Security’s Systematic Alien Verification for Entitle
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How many women does your employer have in management positions compared to industry peers? Are a retail chain’s Black workers as likely to be in public-facing roles as its White workers? Did a trucking company hire qualified women at the same rate it hired qualified men? It will be much more difficu
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For the second time in three days, the Trump administration on Tuesday came to the Supreme Court, asking the justices to clear the way for it to implement a program that it says is intended to combat election fraud. U.S. Solicitor General D.
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On this day in 1953, Chief Justice Fred Vinson died unexpectedly of a heart attack at age 63, seven years after he joined the Supreme Court. At the Court On Sunday, the Trump administration again appealed a dispute over President Donald Trump’s executive order on mail-in voting to the Supreme Court
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Plus, Idaho judge walks back abortion ruling and more than 20 states sue Trump administration over anti-trans Medicaid rule. Each week, Rewire News Group editors scour headlines nationwide—from lawsuits over abortion access to LGBTQ+ rights—to bring you the most urgent news in reproductive justice.
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SAND BRANCH, TEXAS — Days after a large grassfire ripped through four acres of land in Sand Branch, Christina Parks is exhausted. On August 29, brush, trash and debris on a vacant property fueled the blaze, and two nearby structures were damaged.
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The Trump administration came to the Supreme Court on Sunday morning, asking the justices to pause a ruling by a federal judge in Massachusetts that bars the government from implementing parts of a U.S. Postal Service rule on mail-in ballots. U.S. Solicitor General D.
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The Supreme Court will hear a pair of challenges to the constitutionality of bans on AR-15s and other semiautomatic rifles on Dec. 2. The oral arguments in Viramontes v. Cook County , which has been consolidated with Grant v.
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Congressional candidate JoAnna Mendoza can quickly rattle off prices from the grocery store in the small town of Eloy, Arizona, where she grew up. A couple of months ago, a pound of ground beef was going for about $13, a tomato was $1.50 and “a freaking cucumber was like $3.
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Laura Loomer went on a tirade via X late last week describing U.S. Representatives Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley , former U.S. Representative Cori Bush and our recent cover star U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson –all prominent Black women in politics with impressive educational bac
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House lawmakers formally censured Republican Rep. Chuck Edwards of North Carolina over findings that he behaved inappropriately toward two women staffers, showering them with gifts and attention, including reciting poetry for one and giving each a personalized handgun.
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Three weeks after D. John Sauer was confirmed as the 49th solicitor general, law professor and podcast co-host William Baude speculated that Sauer might be “either fired or disbarred by the time his term is up.
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Republicans on the Wake County Board of Elections voted 3-2 earlier this summer to remove North Carolina State University’s Talley Student Union as an early voting site. The student center had served as an early voting location during the 2012, 2018, 2020 and 2024 general elections.
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This is the third of seven introductory articles on the relevance for constitutional law of the “born free and equal” clauses, which appeared in the Declaration of Independence and in six out of 12 state constitutions when the federal Bill of Rights was ratified in 1791, and in 24 out of 37 state co
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Yesterday marked 59 years since the Senate confirmed the nomination of Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court, clearing the way for him to become the first Black justice. At the Court On Friday, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to consider the constitutionality of its ban on transgen
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Some Democrats have retreated from their party’s once-broad support for transgender rights . Not Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey. “The demonization of the trans community requires political leaders to stand up and to protect them against the unconscionable attacks,” Markey told The 19th ahead of Tuesda
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The Marquette Law School Poll, which I direct, conducts six polls each year that track approval of the court and ask for the public’s view on the outcome of cases. Our latest poll, conducted from July 22-29, yielded some fascinating results.
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This column first appeared in The Amendment, a newsletter by Errin Haines, The 19th’s editor-at-large. Subscribe today to get early access to her analysi s. Most members of Congress are staring at one key date on the calendar: November 3, Election Day. But Rep.
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“Freedom doesn’t ring, it revs!” That was the tagline of the first-ever IndyCar street race held in Washington, D.C., over the weekend. From UFC fighters knocking each other out on the White House lawn to ongoing fitness face-offs between Cabinet leaders, the Freedom 250 Grand Prix represents the la
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On Monday, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority gave the Trump administration a temporary procedural victory in its effort to interfere with mail-in voting ahead of the November midterms. But despite some alarming headlines, the Court did not rule that President Donald Trump has the constitutio
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Congress blocked large family-planning clinics that offer abortions from billing Medicaid for one year, starting July 2025. Thirteen months later, Planned Parenthood’s budgetary reality remains complicated.
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In 2016, Candace Owens emerged as a leading conservative voice, the rare Black woman backing then-candidate Donald Trump. In 2017, she was hired by Turning Point USA, a conservative nonprofit co-founded by Charlie Kirk.
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TOPEKA — Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker, who fractured a political glass ceiling as the first woman to represent Kansas in the U.S. Senate and the first woman to be elected to the Senate without having previously filled an unexpired congressional term, died Friday.
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This is the second of five introductory articles on the relevance for U.S. constitutional law of the “born free and equal” clauses, which appeared in the Declaration of Independence and six out of 12 state constitutions when the federal Bill of Rights was ratified in 1791.
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It took mere minutes for the U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding state bans on trans athletes competing in women’s and girls’ sports to reverberate in Ohio’s competitive governor’s race — and the reactions from the Republican and Democratic nominees were all but indistinguishable.
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Trump has officially nominated Dr. Heidi Overton as the FDA commissioner. Overton previously called the abortion pill “telebortion,” and demanded Congress ban it outright. With the FDA currently reevaluating its approval of mifepristone and its regulations permitting providers to mail the medication
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Last updated on August 21, 2026 Since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, overturning Roe v. Wade, voters in 17 states have weighed in on ballot measures regarding abortion-- some more than once. In November 2026, voters in Idaho, Missouri, Nevada, and Virginia will weigh in on abortion measures tha
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I’ve spent two decades mining Supreme Court opinions for writing techniques that can inspire advocates, too. The best examples rarely feature the snarky or witty lines made for social media. Instead, they model how to navigate the toughest problems in legal reasoning: how to make the complex come to
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DETROIT — Joyce Collins has buried nearly her entire immediate family. Her father died in 1992 after cancer spread to his bones. Her oldest sister was diagnosed with lung cancer, later developed breast and brain cancer, and died in 2013. Another sister died from pancreatic cancer in 2007.
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Demonstrators filled the Missouri state Capitol building in January to protest legislative efforts to alter or overturn citizen-led measures passed at the ballot box, including an amendment guaranteeing the right to abortion. Lilley Halloran/St.
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Aisha Wahab has won the special election for the U.S. House seat formerly held by Rep. Eric Swalwell, Decision Desk HQ projects, making her the first person of Afghan descent to be elected to Congress. Swalwell resigned in April amid accusations of sexual misconduct .
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This midterm season, as courts and legislatures chip away at who gets to have a voice in our elections and governance, shoring up our democratic infrastructure is more important than ever. An unlikely tool in the arsenal of democracy? Care.
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As we draw closer to the “ long conference ” on Sept. 28, our petitions page is filling up with notable petitions for review that are scheduled to be discussed. As Amy reported last year, over the past decade, the justices have granted between five and 15 petitions from this conference.
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Anti-abortion activists and lawmakers in Texas are pressing to limit or even outlaw surrogacy, a new step toward restricting major forms of infertility treatment. Surrogacy, though far from common, has entered the national spotlight this summer, the result of an explosive case in which an Alaska wom
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In the pivotal electoral battleground state of North Carolina, Justice Anita Earls’ campaign to hold onto her state Supreme Court seat has been called “one of the most important races in the state" by the North Carolina AFL-CIO, and “one of the most-watched statewide races in this year's midterm ele
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This article first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service. Subscribe to their newsletter . When Mayra Diaz opened the door of her Army barracks room in 2022, she didn’t realize it was the beginning of the end of her military c
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Florida Democrat Angie Nixon, a progressive who recently joined the Democratic Socialists of America, won Democrats’ nomination for a U.S. Senate seat in a stunning upset that gave progressives a win in a highly unlikely state.
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Republican voters in Florida rejected Rep. Cory Mills’ reelection bid in Tuesday’s primary, Decision Desk HQ projects, shutting out of Congress a lawmaker who is facing allegations that he assaulted a woman and threatened to publicize nude videos of a former girlfriend, among other possible miscondu
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This month marks 40 years since the Senate considered Antonin Scalia’s nomination to the Supreme Court. Look to the Morning Reads section for a column from Christopher J. Scalia, one of the justice’s sons, about what that summer was like.
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A key player in the anti-abortion movement is preparing to unveil a new strategy to curtail access to medication abortion now that Attorney General Todd Blanche has been sworn in to lead the Department of Justice.
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Plus, how reproductive rights are factoring into the midterms and President Trump deals the childhood vaccine schedule another blow. Each week, Rewire News Group editors scour headlines nationwide—from lawsuits over abortion access to LGBTQ+ rights—to bring you the most urgent news in reproductive j
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When President Donald Trump signed an executive order on childhood vaccines this week, Jayme Franklin stood nearby, repeatedly touching her pregnant belly. Franklin, 28, gave brief remarks at the signing and applauded Trump’s order, which seeks to reduce the number of routine vaccines recommended to
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On Oct. 13, the Supreme Court will hear argument in Beaird v. United States , a case brought by a Texas man challenging an increase to his sentence for having a gun after a prior felony conviction. Like most federal criminal cases at the Supreme Court, lawyers for both Beaird and the federal governm
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For months now, hundreds of active and caring friends and supporters have been writing and calling us with a version of the same question: In addition to sending money, what else can I actually do? Here’s one suggestion—and it may be the most useful thing you can do between now and Tuesday, Nov.
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In this solo episode of B*tch, Listen, Imani Gandy asks what it means to protect abortion rights on paper when people can’t afford to use them in practice. Her theory: Funding is the first thing a coalition gives up, because funding for abortion can be capped and watered down in a way a constitution
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The Trump administration on Wednesday reiterated its request for the Supreme Court to move quickly to block a ruling by a federal judge in Massachusetts that prohibits the government from implementing part of an executive order on mail-in voting in 23 states and the District of Columbia for the Nove
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Please note that SCOTUS Outside Opinions constitute the views of outside contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SCOTUSblog or its staff. A healthy federal government depends on an ongoing conversation between the branches. But that is not currently happening.
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President Donald Trump celebrated the news that Justice Samuel Alito will be back for the Supreme Court’s 2026-27 term in a Monday night Truth Social post . “Great news for our Country!,” Trump wrote. Alito “is one of the Greatest of All Time.
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Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley, a center-left Democrat who primarily ran on economic issues, squeaked out a narrow win Tuesday in a highly competitive primary for governor of Wisconsin, Decision Desk HQ projects. He won in an upset victory over democratic socialist state Rep.
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Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan easily won Minnesota’s Democratic primary for a U.S. Senate seat, according to Decision Desk HQ, putting her a step closer to becoming the first Native American woman elected to the chamber.
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It’s been over a year since President Donald Trump signed the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill (HR 1) into law—a sweeping 2025 budget-reconciliation package that extends and expands tax cuts, funds defense and immigration enforcement, cuts or restructures major safety-net programs, rolls back some c
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U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is taking social media followers behind the scenes as she freezes her eggs. The New York Democrat announced Saturday night on Instagram and the next day on ABC News that she had decided to pursue the treatment to “feel more in control of my life.
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MILWAUKEE — State Rep. Francesca Hong, Democratic candidate for governor of Wisconsin, looked out at a crowd of 1,300 supporters. Her earliest two were in the very front. “My parents chose Wisconsin,” Hong said at a rally here this month.
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Plus: Voters in Kansas and Missouri reject ballot initiatives that may have further curbed abortion access. Each week, Rewire News Group editors scour headlines nationwide—from lawsuits over abortion access to LGBTQ+ rights—to bring you the most urgent news in reproductive justice.
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Thirty-three years ago today, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn-in . At the Court On July 27, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on its emergency docket to clear the way for the implementation of President Donald Trump’s executive order on mail-in voting.
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Every minute of every day, Liz Stein has to relive the worst thing that’s ever happened to her. She does it during news interviews and when meeting lawmakers on Capitol Hill to demand justice for herself and other survivors of the late disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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This week, the Senate Homeland Security Committee’s Republican lawmakers voted to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt for essentially exercising his constitutional right to invoke the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution. The post Holding Dr.
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Justice Elena Kagan was sworn in on this day in 2010. At the Court Last week, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on its emergency docket to clear the way for the implementation of President Donald Trump’s executive order on mail-in voting.
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Rewire News Group’s president appreciates “every hiss, crackle, and pop from a well-loved record.” Here’s the soundtrack playing on her turntable this summer, from Sade to Kaytranda. Sultry weather requires a soul soundtrack.
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The U.S. Senate confirmed Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court on this day in 2009 on a 68-31 vote. At the Court Last week, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on its emergency docket to clear the way for the implementation of President Donald Trump’s executive order on mai
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Dr. Erica Schwartz will be the first Black woman to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, promising that she will show “radical transparency and unwavering scientific integrity” in the role. But she faces political headwinds and practical challenges as she starts the job.
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This is the second piece in a series on what I believe the court can, and should, do better. *** The Supreme Court justices have an unusual relationship with the press. The court issues what are known as “hard passes” to certain journalists, who have reserved seats to attend the court’s public sessi
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Abdul El-Sayed is Democrats’ pick for U.S. Senate in Michigan. El-Sayed, a former public health official and progressive backed by Sen. Bernie Sanders, defeated Rep. Haley Stevens in Tuesday’s Democratic primary, Decision Desk HQ projects, capping a hotly contested race that drew national attention,
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This year's midterm elections have the power to dramatically alter representation in the current Republican-leaning Congress: All 435 congressional seats in the U.S. House are up for grabs, as is two-thirds of the Senate.
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Former Democratic Rep. Cori Bush will not be returning to Congress after failing to retake her old seat from Rep. Wesley Bell in the heated primary for Missouri’s 1st Congressional District, according to projections by Decision Desk HQ.
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Kansas voters rejected a ballot measure that would have made members of the state’s Supreme Court electable by popular vote — a seemingly technical issue that had become a proxy battle for the future of abortion rights in the state, Decision Desk HQ projects.
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LANSING, Michigan – Former Ambassador Bridget Brink has seen her share of tough fights over the past few years. She was the first woman to lead a U.S. diplomatic mission to an active combat zone as a former chief U.S. envoy to Ukraine.
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This article was adapted from an essay that first appeared in the essay collection America Unfinished: 250 Years of Law and Governance (MIT Press, 2026). *** We are on the cusp of some revolutionary new reproductive technologies.
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The Supreme Court’s collection of art and objects associated with the justices includes a top hat worn by Justice Felix Frankfurter. The hat was made by the same company that “later crafted the wide-brimmed hat worn by Indiana Jones in the 1981 film, Raiders of the Lost Ark ,” according to the court
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Democrats don’t need to copy the Republican playbook to win back young, male voters. The left has been winning elections with its own brand of joyful, responsible men. New domestic violence accusations against Republican congressman Max Miller of Ohio, coming quickly on the heels of the sexual assau
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Republican Rep. Max Miller is still running for reelection, even as leaders in his party wrestle with what it means to have a candidate accused of abusing his ex-wife and daughter. Emily Moreno filed for divorce from Miller in 2024 after a two-year marriage.
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Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation in politics, on boards, in sports and entertainment, in judicial offices and in the private sector in the U.S.
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Lawmakers are seeking the release of an immigrant woman who says that — despite pleading for help after experiencing bleeding and severe pain, indications of a possible miscarriage — she has received limited medical care in detention. “This is URGENT, please.
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A semitruck drives across the Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge from Canada into the United States. On the northeast edge of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, nearly 1,100 people gathered in late June for the International Bridge Walk across the long span that links two cities with the same name: Saul
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DETROIT — Rep. Jim Clyburn of South Carolina, a top Black House Democrat, was making the case for a moderate politician running on boosting jobs and manufacturing. Six years ago, it was to crowds in his home state, arguing that Joe Biden was the best positioned to win in a general election.
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Senate Democrats introduced a bill Wednesday that would codify women’s right to serve in combat. The legislation, called the “Women Add Resourcefulness and Resilience to Improve Operational Readiness Act” or the WARRIOR Act, would reinforce a long-standing principle in the military: standards must b
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Please note that SCOTUS Outside Opinions constitute the views of outside contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SCOTUSblog or its staff. Justice William Brennan’s legacy is inextricably tied to his role as “the playmaker” of the Warren court.
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As the Supreme Court awaits word on whether Congress will approve its request for more security funding , Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson reflected on what it’s like to be accompanied by security guards 24/7. Keep reading to learn more about her comments.
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Amid an ongoing FDA re-review of mifepristone, awareness of the safety and prevalence of the abortion pill remains limited. This KFF poll also finds that the voters who say abortion policy is an important issue for 2026 midterm candidates to discuss are disproportionately Democrats.
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This column first appeared in The Amendment, a newsletter by Errin Haines, The 19th’s editor-at-large. Subscribe today to get early access to her analysi s. On a hot summer afternoon with 10 days to go until the August 4 Missouri primary, Cori Bush took a break from the campaign trail to chat with a
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President Donald Trump has returned to the Supreme Court to challenge a second jury award to E. Jean Carroll. Look to the Morning Reads section for more on the new petition for review. At the Court On Tuesday, the Supreme Court denied requests for a stay of execution from James Aren Duckett, who was
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Ever wondered what happened to well-known Supreme Court plaintiffs after their cases came to an end? Today, we’re launching a new series of Closer Looks exploring that very topic. At the Court On Monday, the Trump administration came to the Supreme Court on its emergency docket and asked the justice
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DELAWARE, OHIO — When Angel Smith showed up for a mandatory staff meeting last month at OhioHealth Grady Memorial Hospital, the longtime labor and delivery nurse was fresh off a busy night shift caring for a patient who delivered her baby early, at about 35 weeks.
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Pencils are more expensive. So are notebooks, scissors, glue sticks — just about every back-to-school item that families will load into their literal or virtual carts this summer has gone up in price at a time when American families already feel crushed by rising costs.
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When Bella, a high school senior in Washington, heard that a ballot initiative to restrict transgender girls’ participation in school sports would appear before voters in her state this November, she already had her misgivings.
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Welcome to SCOTUSblog’s recurring series in which we interview experts on different supreme courts around the world and how they compare to our own. Today’s column focuses on the Constitutional Court of South Africa.
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When asked during a 2022 appearance at the University of Pennsylvania about the opinions of which she was most proud, Justice Elena Kagan cited her 2015 opinion in Kimble v. Marvel Entertainment, LLC as one she had “thought about a lot over the years.
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The Trump administration has a new plan for teenagers learning about pregnancy: Beginning this summer, it will steer millions of dollars toward organizations that focus on anatomy, fertility tracking, hormonal production and “reproductive goals counseling.
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Today is retired Justice Anthony Kennedy’s 90th birthday. Kennedy joined the Supreme Court in 1988 and retired in 2018. Morning Reads Senator Whitehouse aims to keep Supreme Court ethics conversation alive with term limits bill Benjamin S.
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More Americans now hold absolutist positions, supporting legal access to abortion in all or most cases and opposing government regulation altogether. It’s been four years since the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned Roe v.
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Summertime—and the fight for democracy—is sizzling, especially in the states. Here’s what is happening across the country. Sudden shakeups in U.S. Senate elections have foisted reproductive rights front and center.
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In response to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that preserves birthright citizenship, Texas officials are wielding their authority to clamp down on birth tourism, primarily through investigating or suing health providers.
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During Pride month last year, almost 70,000 LGBTQ+ young people sought specialized help from 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline. That was the last time they were able to do so. As of today, it’s been a year since the 988 hotline’s LGBTQ+ youth services shut down.
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Unlike her late brother Lindsey, whose political career spanned 33 years, Darline Graham has never run for or held elected office — until she was appointed to serve the remainder of the U.S. senator’s term this week.
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One of the more controversial topics concerning the Supreme Court is how attuned justices should be to public opinion. An even more fundamental question, however, is how closely public opinion matches the Supreme Court’s decisions.
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ATLANTA — Kecia Ellick doesn’t see herself as having much in common with Keisha Lance Bottoms, beyond them both being Black women in their 50s who are mothers and neighbors — and having names that sound the same. Ellick is a laid-off public health researcher trying to rebuild her career.
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While United States Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey joined the Global Black Economic Forum’s (GBEF) Business Summit and Public Convention during the 2026 ESSENCE Festival of Culture, helping shape conversations about politics, democracy and economic justice, his reflections on love revealed what h
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Approximately two weeks after the final opinion of the 57 argued cases decided by the Supreme Court in the October 2025-26 Term was filed, this column presents an overview of the “pure” criminal law decisions the court issued.
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In the first appearances by members of the Supreme Court before Congress in seven years, Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett testified on Tuesday in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is so staunchly anti-abortion that his office observes June 24, the anniversary of the overturn of Roe v. Wade, as a holiday. The Republican’s actions to block abortion stand out.
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Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett deserve high praise for the pivotal role they played at the end of the just-concluded term in two key cases. One is Trump v. Barbara , the monumental decision confirming that the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment guarantees birthri
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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche will appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday for a confirmation hearing to consider his official nomination to a post he has held since April. President Donald Trump fired Blanche’s predecessor , Pam Bondi, in April and appointed Blanche in the
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Idaho voters will weigh in on their state’s abortion laws this November. The secretary of state’s office certified a ballot measure that could, if passed, overturn one of the strictest bans in the country, the campaign to restore abortion rights in Idaho confirmed on Monday.
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Dr. Annie Andrews, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in South Carolina, is getting national attention following the death of her Republican opponent, Sen. Lindsey Graham, over the weekend. The Democrat, who handily won her primary in June, was expected to face off Graham in the November 3 midte
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Each week, Rewire News Group editors scour headlines nationwide—from lawsuits over abortion access to LGBTQ+ rights—to bring you the most urgent news in reproductive justice. Here’s what you need to know from the past week’s biggest stories.
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BANGOR, Maine — As Maine Democrats vie to replace Graham Platner in their state’s Senate race, abortion — a key weakness for Republican Sen. Susan Collins — is set to shape the next phase of the contest, which Democrats view as a prime pick-up opportunity.
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President Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, Todd Blanche, will appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee for his confirmation hearing Wednesday, July 15, and Thursday, July 16. Ahead of the hearing, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights along with dozens of national organ
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In This Edition: Milestones: Charlene Mitchell became the first Black woman presidential nominee (1968); Sandra Day O’Connor was nominated as the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court (1981); 14th Amendment was ratified (1868); Wyoming joined the Union and its state constitution granted wom
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One might argue that Supreme Court justices are more visible today than ever before. Six have published books and Brett Kavanaugh is apparently working on one to become the seventh. Several have recently given television interviews, others have not shied from making public statements.
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Five nights a week, millions of Americans vote on Love Island USA with just a few taps on their phones. Yet when Election Day arrives, most still stand in line, mail absentee ballots or travel to polling places.
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Yesterday marked 158 years since the ratification of the 14th Amendment . The amendment, which, among other things, guarantees citizenship to “[a]ll persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,” was in the spotlight during the 2025-26 term, in large part
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After President Donald Trump gained ground with young men and rode his ascendant, aggressive brand of masculinity into a second term in the White House, a group of progressive Democratic strategists bet big on a new kind of candidate: aesthetically masculine men who could run economic populist campa
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A year ago, abortion opponents were celebrating one of their biggest victories under the Trump administration: Planned Parenthood, the movement’s arch-villain, had been temporarily kicked out of Medicaid, one of the nation’s largest health insurance programs.
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Rep. Analilia Mejia knew when she joined Congress in April that she wanted to use her post to highlight what she believes is an existential threat to everyday freedoms: attempts to erode and redefine the 14th Amendment.
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Please note that SCOTUS Outside Opinions constitute the views of outside contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SCOTUSblog or its staff. Every day, Americans are witnessing the most significant expansion of presidential power in modern times.
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On the morning of June 11, agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided the Cleveland offices of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative (OOC), a grassroots pro-democracy organization focused on registration, civic engagement and community organizing for marginalized communities.
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Last week, the Supreme Court finished handing down its opinions in argued cases this term. In light of its decisions on birthright citizenship and the administrative state , one decision, from the prior week, may be somewhat easy to overlook. But I think this ruling is of great importance.
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Graham Platner, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Maine, is facing mounting pressure to drop out of the race following an allegation of sexual assault, which he’s denied. Platner, a military veteran, oyster farmer and first-time candidate, launched his campaign against GOP Sen.
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Indiana’s Planned Parenthood affiliate remains cut off from state Medicaid funding even with the expiration of a federal ban on such payments to abortion providers for any health-care services. The nationwide funding ban that Republicans included in last year’s “big, beautiful” law expired July 4, 2
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After failing to advance in the Senate four separate times in two years and drawing opposition from members of their own party, Republicans are once again attempting to resurrect the SAVE America Act (an even more extreme version of the original SAVE Act)—legislation that would require Americans to
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One year ago, the Supreme Court had just wrapped up the 2024-25 term with a series of high-profile rulings, including decisions limiting the availability of universal injunctions and upholding a state ban on certain medical treatments for transgender minors .
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Please note that SCOTUS Outside Opinions constitute the views of outside contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SCOTUSblog or its staff. Speaking at a Federalist Society event the day the Supreme Court wrapped up its latest term, attorney Kannon Shanmugam described an “emerging
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The Stat Pack is here! Jake S. Truscott and Adam Feldman crunched the numbers from the 2025-26 term and pulled together key takeaways. Scroll to the On Site section to learn more. Plus, do you know an exceptional lawyer looking for something different? We're hiring to help build a new editorial
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In the lead-up to our country’s 250th anniversary, Errin Haines is writing a series of columns to contemplate the complicated expansion of our democracy. Subscribe to The Amendment newsletter . Joseph and Nellie Gamble were born in 1905 and 1910 in Jim Crow Alabama – which meant that for much of the
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Unknown block type "pdfEmbed", specify a component for it in the `components.types` option The final stretch of the 2025-26 Supreme Court term looked different from the end of recent ones. Over the past several years, many of the court’s most anticipated decisions have ended with the familiar 6-3 id
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For 250 years, the story of American democracy has been a story of expanding who holds power and who gets to decide who yields it. The 15th Amendment, the 17th, the Voting Rights Act, the 19th Amendment and the 26th—each was a structural intervention, a deliberate redesign of the rules to bring more
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It was a busy Tuesday at the court as the justices released the final opinions in argued cases for the 2025-26 term and then orders from their Monday conference. Let’s get to it. But first, do you know an exceptional lawyer looking for something different? We're hiring to help build a new edito
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The Supreme Court is deciding more consequential rulings than ever before in secret, issued in unsigned orders with little to no justification. Bryan Dozier/NurPhoto via AP In its term that ended last October, the Supreme Court passed an important milestone that went unnoticed: For the first time, i
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Melat Kiros, a 29-year-old democratic socialist and first-time candidate, ousted Democratic Rep. Diana DeGette of Colorado in a primary challenge on Tuesday. DeGette, a 15-term incumbent first elected in 1996, is the second member of Congress to lose her seat to a younger democratic socialist challe
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When it comes to the last formal day of the term, when we know which cases are remaining, litigants and other interested parties have the chance to try to work their way into the courtroom to hear an opinion announced in a case of close interest.
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On the second-to-last day of its 2025-'26 term, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 along party lines President Donald Trump can fire Rebecca Slaughter, who served as commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from 2018 until her dismissal in 2025.
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Want more stories like this? Subscribe to our menopause newsletter . Like many other political leaders in the United States, Illinois Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton was thinking about affordability. That’s why she started hosting a series of conversations with women in her state about financial wellness
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The court has indicated that today will be the final opinion announcement day of the term. We will be live blogging beginning at 9:30 a.m. EDT. The court has four cases left to decide: Trump v. Barbara (birthright citizenship); West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Little v.
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The Supreme Court on Monday morning added six new cases to its argument docket for the 2026-27 term and turned down President Donald Trump’s request to take up his appeal of a $5 million award against him in a lawsuit brought by columnist E. Jean Carroll.
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At the Supreme Court building, there is a small exhibition tied to the nation’s 250th anniversary, titled “Revolutionary Arguments: The Legal Fight for Independence.” The modest ground floor display focuses on how some of the “lawyers, statesmen, and soldiers—some of whom would later become Justices
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Melat Kiros was born in 1997, the year her representative in the U.S. House, Democrat Diana DeGette, took office. On Tuesday, Kiros hopes to unseat her. The next frontier of the fight for the Democratic Party is in Denver, where DeGette, a 15-term incumbent and longtime progressive, is facing her mo
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Good morning, and welcome to a new week and another opinion announcement day. We will be live blogging beginning at 9:30 a.m. EDT. We are expecting eight more decisions in argued cases (which are likely – though not guaranteed – to come down by the end of this week), including Trump v.
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The ballot box is an economic instrument—and Black America is living the proof. The numbers don’t lie, even when we wish they would. Black unemployment sits at 7.5 percent, the highest it’s been in years. More than 400,000 Black workers are out of a job.
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This week, Trump cancelled a planned signing ceremony for the bipartisan 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act—which would help address the worsening housing affordability crisis—and said he won’t sign it unless Republicans in the Senate vote to pass the SAVE America Act.
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Each week, Rewire News Group editors scour headlines nationwide—from lawsuits over abortion access to LGBTQ+ rights—to bring you the most urgent news in reproductive justice. Here’s this week’s latest. Sen.
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Scholar Robert Dahl, writing back in 1957 , once remarked that “Americans are not quite willing to accept the fact that [the Supreme Court] is a political institution and not quite capable of denying it; so that frequently we take both positions at once.
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On this day in 2015, the court decided Obergefell v. Hodges , recognizing a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. At the Court On Thursday, the court released its opinions in four cases: Mullin v. Doe , Wolford v. Lopez , Mullin v. Al Otro Lado , and Monsanto v. Durnell . In Mullin v.
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The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here . This Thursday’s conference is the last one currently scheduled during the October Term 2025.
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Today is Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s birthday. Born in 1954, Sotomayor has served on the court since 2009. Plus, we will be live blogging this morning beginning at 9:30 a.m. EDT as the court announces opinions in one or more argued cases.
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The Supreme Court’s April 29 ruling curtailing a key provision of the Voting Rights Act cleared the way for last-minute redistricting pushes in states such as Louisiana and Tennessee . As a result, it fueled new , more urgent calls for Congress to take action to ban mid-decade map drawing and partis
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On this day in 2022, the court released Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization , holding that the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion. A draft of the majority opinion had leaked approximately seven weeks earlier, prompting protests across the country.
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Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe has argued that out-of-state special interests are influencing constitutional amendments, while doing just that with his own push to eliminate the state income tax. Kansas City Star/Getty Images Missouri Gov.
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Democratic socialists Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier won their primaries for the U.S. House, a show of strength for the left wing of the party and a sign of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s influence in New York City.
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Republican voters regularly use mail-in voting. Nearly one in five registered Republicans vote by mail. One in four Democrats does too. Data on who votes by mail suggests that many Americans trust and rely on it. Trump himself uses mail voting.
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Updated on June 23 at 2:51 p.m. The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled in Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections that a Louisiana man cannot sue prison officials who shaved his head even after he showed them a copy of a court ruling that allowed him to keep his long hair for religious reasons.
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Two progressive women of color and democratic socialists are vying to win New York City-based seats on Tuesday in hotly contested races that progressive Democrats are looking toward to shape the trajectory of their party. Their bids come eight years after Rep.
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The Supreme Court on Monday morning denied review in several notable cases, including cases involving voting rights, the environment, and a trademark dispute involving a company founded by NBA superstar LeBron James.
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After Graham Platner secured the Democratic nomination for Senate in Maine, his first ad of the general election didn’t mention his opponent, Sen. Susan Collins, or the Republican Party. It focused on the late disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and who he called the “Eps
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The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, best known as a Reaganomics champion, is using anti-LGBTQ+ politics to advance its broader political goals. But that wasn’t always part of its strategy. Since its founding nearly 50 years ago, MI has influenced conservative policy by crafting model legisl
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Ashley Etienne has spent her career inside the most consequential rooms in American politics. Now she’s seated at one of its most visible tables. The veteran communications strategist recently joined NBC News as a political contributor, making her debut on Meet the Press with Kristen Welker , and ma
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In the town square of Eutaw, Alabama, the modern world hems in a relic of an older one that no longer exists. The Eutaw Hotel is long gone. Even among older locals, the V.J. Elmore’s Five & Dime is nothing but a faint memory.
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A feminist pro-democracy agenda must include new lawmaking institutions that can ensure our democracy is more inclusive, more democratic, more representative, and more responsive to the needs of all the people who call America home.
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When the justices take the bench on Thursday morning to issue opinions, the Supreme Court will have 20 cases left to decide, with just under two weeks to go before the end of June – the point by which the justices normally release all of their decisions and leave for their summer recess.
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As we await the usual late-June flurry of decisions – some of them quite significant – I wanted to reflect on what I believe to be the most extraordinary June in the modern Supreme Court, which took place four years ago in 2022. In decisions between June 21 and June 30, the court overruled Roe v.
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Three top Senate Democrats are accusing the Trump administration and Republicans of “taking a wrecking ball” to childcare programs, highlighting the issue in a midterm year where many Democrats are running on inflation and the high cost of living.
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Vice President JD Vance admits years later that it was a “boneheaded” move to impugn Democrats, including former Vice President Kamala Harris, as “childless cat ladies.” Vance calls the insults, which he made in 2021, “one of the dumbest things I ever said” in his forthcoming book “Communion,” accor
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Near the end of her career, Lilly Ledbetter received an anonymous note: she was being paid far less than every man doing the same job. Ledbetter was one of the first female supervisors at an Alabama Goodyear tire plant, working the 12-hour 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. overnight shift for nearly 20 years.
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This story, originally published by Wisconsin Watch , was produced in partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Investigative Journalism class taught in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
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As the U.S. prepares to mark its 250th birthday, questions loom over the celebration (UFC Fight Club matches at the White House aside). Whose America gets remembered, whose gets erased? What can modern ebbs and flows of democratic principles teach us? And how do we imagine and build a bold, inclusiv
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Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation in politics, on boards, in sports and entertainment, in judicial offices and in the private sector in the U.S.
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Sarah McBride is playing the long game. At 8 or 9 years old, she became enthralled with the lectern her father used to teach classes at their family church, so her mother bought one. McBride set it up with an American flag backdrop and a hand-drawn cardboard presidential seal so she could recite Pre
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Each week, Rewire News Group editors scour headlines nationwide—from lawsuits over abortion access to LGBTQ+ rights—to bring you the most urgent news in reproductive justice. Here’s this week’s latest. Hospitals in New York, Rhode Island indicate they will share patient records A federal judge in Ca
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The NBA Finals, Stanley Cup Final, and World Cup may be dominating sports news right now, but some of us still want to talk about baseball. And as reporter Matt Rice noted on X this week, Justices Potter Stewart and Harry Blackmun would have approved .
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Vance Boelter pleaded guilty Thursday to the murder of former state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark Hortman, and the shootings of state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife Yvette Hoffman. The plea agreement calls for two consecutive life terms plus 40 years in federal prison. U.S.
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Last month, Justice Amy Coney Barrett was the target of an attempted “swatting” incident – a call falsely reporting the sound of gunshots at her Virginia home. Although swatting incidents are intended to provoke a heavy police response, and therefore can often be dangerous, police audio indicated th
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Democrats are hoping President Donald Trump’s unpopularity and voter discontent with the economy and cost of living will help them flip control of the U.S. House — and achieve the even more difficult hurdle of winning back the U.S. Senate.
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Democrats’ hopes of winning back the U.S. Senate most likely run through Maine. And they’re pinned on Graham Platner, a U.S. military veteran and oyster farmer who will take on GOP Sen. Susan Collins. Collins has represented Maine in the Senate since 1997 and is seeking a sixth term.
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Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette and Attorney General Alan Wilson will advance to a runoff in a competitive Republican primary for governor of South Carolina. Evette, President Donald Trump’s pick in the race, ran in a crowded primary that also included businessman Rom Reddy and Reps.
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The decade opened amid a pandemic, economic upheaval and a reckoning over democracy itself. In early 2020, Virginia became the 38th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, seemingly bringing a nearly 50-year constitutional struggle to a historic milestone.
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The 1990s began with feminists determined not to surrender the ground they had fought for in the Reagan era—and almost immediately, the stakes became impossible to ignore. In October 1991, millions of Americans watched Anita Hill testify before an all-male Senate Judiciary Committee about sexual har
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In 1972, when Ms. first hit newsstands, abortion was illegal in most of the country. Women could be denied credit cards, mortgages and loans without a husband’s signature. Newspapers still segregated job listings into “Help Wanted: Male” and “Help Wanted: Female.
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Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation in politics, on boards, in sports and entertainment, in judicial offices and in the private sector in the U.S.
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North Dakota state Rep. Eric Murphy at home planning a day of canvassing in his Grand Forks district. Murphy, an incumbent Republican, faces a contested primary election from conservative challengers after he introduced a bill to expand abortion access last year.
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It’s a Thursday in June, and seasoned Supreme Court watchers likely know what that means: We’re expecting opinions this morning. Our opinion day live blog begins at 9:30 a.m. EDT. At the Court After the possible announcement of opinions this morning, the justices will meet in a private conference to
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In the lead-up to our country’s 250th anniversary, Errin Haines is writing a series of columns to contemplate the complicated expansion of our democracy. Subscribe to The Amendment newsletter . Nearly three months before the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Abigail Adams had a warning …
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The current court is often described as composed of six Republican-appointed conservatives and three Democratic-appointed liberals. And that shorthand explains many of the court’s most visible decisions. But it also misses one of the central patterns in close cases.
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On May 7, 2026, Clarence Thomas became the second longest serving justice in American history, surpassing Justice Stephen Field, who had been a justice for 34 years, 195 days, from 1863-1897. If Thomas stays on the bench for two more years, in May 2028, he will replace Justice William O.
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Reminder: Each Wednesday, SCOTUSblog’s Amy Howe answers your questions about the court in a section called Ask Amy. Send your queries to scotusblog@thedispatch.com . At the Court On Monday, the court added a new case on the First Step Act to its oral argument docket for the 2026-27 term, sent a deat
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It’s June 1. The official start of hurricane season in the Atlantic , Statehood Day for both Kentucky and Tennessee , and Oscar the Grouch Day . It’s also the beginning of what is likely to be the final month before the justices’ summer recess – or, to put it another way, a 30-day sprint during whic
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Welcome to June – for SCOTUSblog, the busiest month of the year. At the Court On Thursday, the justices met in a private conference to discuss cases and vote on petitions for review . Orders from that conference are expected this morning at 9:30 a.m. EDT.
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Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation in politics, on boards, in sports and entertainment, in judicial offices and in the private sector in the U.S.
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Believe it or not, Supreme Court justices sometimes have jury duty. Justice Sonia Sotomayor “was among the nearly 250 city residents who reported for jury duty at the D.C. Superior Court” on Tuesday, according to The New York Times .
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What I experienced during my 2014 run for office wasn’t entirely unfamiliar to me. The year before, I had run for president of the Young Democrats of America (YDA), a national political party office role, against a popular opponent.
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Republicans are focusing on one question in one of November’s top races: Is the Democrat a real man? Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who clinched the GOP’s nomination for U.S. Senate on Tuesday night, released a new ad Wednesday —his first of the general election — accusing his opponent, state S…
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Attacks on the legitimacy of U.S. elections are no longer confined to conspiracy theories circulating online—they are increasingly shaping government action at the local level. In Riverside County, Calif.
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(Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images) By Shelby Stewart · Updated May 27, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… In a decisive primary runoff victory Tuesday night, Christian Menefee secured the Democratic nomination for Texas’ 18th Congressional District, defeating longtime incumbent
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By Shelby Stewart · Updated May 27, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… In a decisive primary runoff victory Tuesday night, Christian Menefee secured the Democratic nomination for Texas’ 18th Congressional District, defeating longtime incumbent Al Green and cementing a rapid politic
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The U.S. Supreme Court (unlike some ) does not divide its docket between civil and criminal cases. So I do . With about five weeks left in the current Supreme Court term, it’s time for a quick update on how the court is handling its criminal cases this term, and a brief description of “big” criminal
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This story was originally reported by Orion Rummler of The 19th , and republished through Rewire News Group ‘s partnership with the 19th News Network. The Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum has been years in the making—and now, transphobia is threatening to derail the whole thing.
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Emily Waldorf Kathleen Flynn for ProPublica On the morning of Sept. 16, 2024, Emily Waldorf’s preschooler found her curled on the bathroom floor. Waldorf had felt a strange pressure during a shower, like a balloon bulging into her vagina, and was now bleeding.
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By Bridgette Bartlett Royall · Updated May 25, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… These days, it is easy to feel like the world is on fire: all of our bills are too high , we’re at war with Iran , the government is…well, you know how stressful politics is right now.
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Last month, The New York Times published a major scoop : the inside story of the Supreme Court’s 2016 order blocking then-President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan, an environmental initiative intended to address climate change, on its interim docket.
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As data centers rapidly emerge at unprecedented rates across the country, they are being met with increasing opposition — particularly from women, according to a recent Gallup poll. More than two-thirds of adults oppose the construction of the massive and costly complexes used to power artificial in
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The Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum has been years in the making — and now, transphobia is threatening to derail the whole thing. A bill to approve building the museum failed to pass on a 204-216 vote, after House Democrats voted in opposition.
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Congressional Republicans are once again prioritizing the SAVE Act, legislation that would force Americans to show documents like a passport or birth certificate to register to vote. The House has already passed yet another version of the bill, but so far it has stalled in the Senate.
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Plus, in the latest edition of Ask Amy, Amy explores how common it is for a justice to have argued a case before the Supreme Court before becoming a justice.
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The post Ken Paxton Wanted to Crack Down on Forum Shopping. Now Lawyers Say He’s Improperly Seeking Out Favorable Courts. appeared first on ProPublica .
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Keisha Lance Bottoms won the Democratic gubernatorial primary in Georgia, avoiding a runoff and setting up a chance to make history. Bottoms served as the mayor of Atlanta from 2018 to 2022 and then led the White House’s public engagement efforts under President Joe Biden, who has backed her campai.
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LILBURN, GEORGIA — When state Rep. Jasmine Clark launched her campaign for Congress on a mission to enact generational change, she didn’t realize she could also make history. Now, she’s poised to become the first Black woman Ph.D.
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EVANS, GEORGIA — On Sunday, Keisha Lance Bottoms held one of the last voter meet-and-greets of her campaign for governor at a small business near Augusta. It had been, she told the crowd, “quite a year” since she got into the race.
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Major Questions is a recurring series by Adam White , which analyzes the court’s approach to administrative law, agencies, and the lower courts. Good fences make good neighbors. But do bad neighbors make good analogies? Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson thinks so, but I’m less convinced.
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Plus, the court has sent two more Voting Rights Act cases back to lower courts for further consideration.
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MONTGOMERY, Alabama — On the morning the U.S. Supreme Court all but finished gutting the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Anneshia Hardy met with funders about investing in the Deep South in this majority-Black city, where physical reminders of the country’s brutal history of enslavement are scattered amo
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This article was co-published with The 74, a nonprofit news organization covering education in America. Sign up for its newsletters here. On November 5, 2024, men and women around the U.S. headed to the polls to decide a race hyped as a battle of the sexes.
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The Supreme Court on Monday morning added one new case to its docket for the 2026-27 term. The justices will hear arguments sometime in the fall on whether employees can bring lawsuits for sex discrimination under a federal law that applies to schools that receive federal funding.
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Kelly Baden on the LA v. FDA SCOTUS decision sramashwar May 18, 2026
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In Dissent is a recurring series by Anastasia Boden on Supreme Court dissents that have shaped (or reshaped) our country. On Oct. 9, 1954, Justice Robert Jackson died at the apartment of his secretary – forcing the Supreme Court to issue a statement papering over the circumstances.
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Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation in politics, on boards, in sports and entertainment, in judicial offices and in the private sector in the U.S.
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The Supreme Court has kept a key abortion drug available for now. Still, Democrats will highlight the consequences of abortion bans as a midterms campaign theme, elevating what could be another weakness for Republicans, who are already underwater on a host of other issues, including cost-of-living c