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In 2014, after a mass shooting in California, The Onion ran a story headlined “‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens.” I think of that headline after every mass shooting, including today’s horrifying one at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Every country has murderous …

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is set to announce his retirement at the age of 83, avoiding a repeat of the debacle created by Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s untimely death and handing the Biden administration a chance to install the first new liberal justice on the court since Elena Kagan in …

On August 3rd, with the Delta variant surging, President Joe Biden‘s administration issued a new 60-day moratorium on evictions in parts of the country with high levels of coronavirus transmission. The Centers for Disease Control determined that stopping people from being kicked out of their homes was essential to protecting …

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Supreme Court justice and trailblazing feminist icon who had fought off colon, lung and liver cancer, died Friday of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer, the Supreme Court announced. She was 87. “Our nation has lost a jurist of historic stature,” Chief Justice John Roberts said in …

The federal death penalty in America, unused since 2003, is plainly constitutional. The most conservative Supreme Court in 80 years certainly will say so when next asked. So there is every reason to think that in the next year or so the federal “machinery of death” will begin to churn …

By a vote of 5-to-4, the Supreme Court on Thursday blocked a law that would have shut down two of the three abortion-providing clinics left in the state of Louisiana. The law, which was set to take effect Friday, would have required abortion providers acquire admitting privileges at local hospitals. …

Ruth Bader Ginsburg had two cancerous nodules removed from her left lung on Friday, according to a statement released by the Supreme Court. The procedure took place at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, where doctors found no evidence of “any remaining disease” in Ginsburg’s lung or …

When Shania went to the Hartford GYN Center for her abortion appointment, she and her mother walked up the path to the clinic where they were approached by a woman. That woman led her through a door into what Shania and her mom thought was the abortion clinic. Once inside, …