Supreme Court

Despite his best efforts to appear uninvolved in the Supreme Court mifepristone case, Trump helped engineer the attack.
The court’s two most conservative justices signaled their belief that abortion could be effectively banned across the country via the 1873 Comstock Act.
"The cost of her failing to be replaced by a Democratic president with a Democratic Senate would be catastrophic,” one said.
"I’m 70 years old and we were talking about this when I was in college, and that's insane to me," said Jane Amgarola, a retiree who speaks for countless others.
The majority of justices appeared skeptical that an anti-abortion doctors association had the ability to sue to block the distribution of mifepristone.
The case has major implications for abortion access across the United States.
The Supreme Court is hearing arguments in its first abortion case since conservative justices overturned the constitutional right to an abortion two years ago.
Abortion opponents on Tuesday will ask the high court to ratify a ruling from a conservative federal appeals court that would limit access to the medication mifepristone.
The Supreme Court will take up a case Tuesday that could impact how women get access to mifepristone.
The former justice, who retired at 83 after the consequential Dobbs ruling, said he does not believe it is harmful to impose such limits on the high court.