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Supreme Court sounds conflicted over Trump criminal immunity
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appeared conflicted over how to handle Donald Trump’s claim that his presidency shielded him from federal prosecution during oral arguments Thursday in a case almost certain to shape this year’s presidential campaign.
The justices explored the breadth of the criminal case alleging Trump masterminded an ...Read more
Trump immunity protesters see 'make-or-break moment for our republic'
WASHINGTON — The sidewalk outside the Supreme Court was dotted with more reporters than protesters Thursday morning as oral arguments in the Donald Trump immunity case played out inside.
Dozens of demonstrators banged drums, blared music and at times hurled insults at one another. But it was a relatively subdued gathering as the morning wore ...Read more
Idaho Attorney General Labrador questions doctors' accounts of abortion emergencies
BOISE, Idaho — Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador cast doubts on doctors’ claims that they’re transferring an increasing number of patients out of state for care to comply with the state’s strict abortion laws.
The claims were central to a U.S. Supreme Court hearing Wednesday that will determine whether Idaho abortion law conflicts ...Read more
How treatment of miscarriages is upending the abortion debate
For decades, the abortion wars have centered on whether a woman should be able to decide when and if she has a child. But with increasingly strict restrictions on reproductive rights being enacted across the United States, these debates are charting new, unfamiliar territory — medical care for women who have had miscarriages.
Up to one in ...Read more
David Pecker returns to witness stand as Trump's hush money trial resumes
NEW YORK — Former National Enquirer David Pecker returned to the stand Thursday at Donald Trump’s Manhattan Supreme Court hush money trial — where the jurors heard details on a scheme to disguise a $150,000 payment to Playboy model Karen McDougal before the 2016 election to keep quiet about an alleged affair with Trump.
Meanwhile, lawyers...Read more
Supreme Court's conservatives lean in favor of limited immunity for Trump as an ex-president
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s conservative justices said Thursday they agree a former president should be shielded from prosecution for his truly official acts while in office, but not for private schemes that would give him personal gain.
They also suggested the case against former President Trump will have to be sent back to the lower...Read more
Arizona's abortion law repeal comes as independents trust Biden more on issue
The ruling from Arizona’s highest court reinstating a near-total ban on abortions has catapulted the issue to the forefront in a 2024 swing state that has absorbed an influx of independent voters.
On Wednesday, after weeks of mounting pressure, the Republican-led state House of Representatives voted to repeal the law. The Senate, which also ...Read more
Vice President Kamala Harris to visit Florida to talk about abortion rights
MIAMI — Vice President Kamala Harris will campaign in Florida on the day the state’s six-week abortion ban is set to take effect.
Harris will travel to Jacksonville on May 1 and will “discuss the harms inflicted by state abortion bans” and will argue that former President Donald Trump is at fault for the abortion restrictions in the ...Read more
David Pecker set to return to witness stand as Trump's hush money trial resumes
NEW YORK — Former National Enquirer David Pecker is slated to return to the stand Thursday at Donald Trump’s Manhattan Supreme Court hush money trial — where the jurors are expected to hunker down for their first full day of testimony.
While lawyers for the former president argue before the U.S. Supreme Court in an attempt to get him out ...Read more
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore leads new Angela Alsobrooks ad in final push before primary
BALTIMORE — Gov. Wes Moore and U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen — doubling down on their support for Angela Alsobrooks in the hotly contested Democratic primary for U.S. Senate — are leading a new star-studded television ad aimed at highlighting her endorsements from top Maryland officials.
The governor is also scheduled to headline a large ...Read more
Trump infers campus protests worse than Charlottesville rally where white supremacist killed protestor
Former President Donald Trump has downplayed the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia where a counter-protester was killed by right-wing extremists.
Trump said the violent Unite the Right rally was “a peanut” compared to the pro-Palestinian protests sweeping college campuses since Israel invaded Gaza in retaliation for ...Read more
Arizona's abortion law repeal comes as independents trust Biden more on issue
The ruling from Arizona’s highest court reinstating a near-total ban on abortions has catapulted the issue to the forefront in a 2024 swing state that has absorbed an influx of independent voters.
On Wednesday, after weeks of mounting pressure, the Republican-led state House of Representatives voted to repeal the law. The Senate, which also ...Read more
Will Supreme Court make Trump immune from Jan. 6 prosecution?
The Supreme Court on Thursday will hear former President Trump's claim that he is entirely immune from prosecution for all of his "official acts" during his time in the White House, including his effort to overturn his loss in the 2020 election.
Trump's claim of absolute immunity has been derided by legal experts and rejected by a federal trial...Read more
California leaders asked for a Supreme Court homelessness decision. Will it backfire?
LOS ANGELES — As the nation's highest court heard arguments this week in a case expected to shape homelessness policies in the years to come, Los Angeles County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath listened angrily.
The case involved a small Oregon town seeking to rid its streets and parks of encampments, and leaders across California had joined in ...Read more
Arizona’s 1864 abortion law was made in a women’s rights desert – here’s what life was like then
Dora Juhl, a 15-year-old teenager, walked into Dr. Rosa Goodrich Boido’s obstetrical practice in Phoenix in January 1918. Juhl wanted to end her pregnancy.
But abortion was illegal in Arizona.
Boido, the city’s sole female physician, asked Juhl for US$100 – about $2,000 today – to perform the abortion.
Juhl ...Read more
Who's running for Congress in Colorado? Here are the candidates on the June 25 primary ballot
DENVER — All eight of Colorado’s congressional districts will have candidates on the June 25 primary ballot. And in three of those districts — the 3rd, 4th and 5th — the seat is open, providing the ingredients for a more boisterous fight than normal ahead of November’s election.
Here is a look at the current list of candidates who ...Read more
Census change will lead to more data on health of Middle Eastern, North African people in US
Before the successful, healthy birth of her son, recalls Germine Awad — an Egyptian American who is a psychologist at the University of Michigan — clinicians told her that her hormone levels were too high and that her pregnancy was in danger. “They don’t know us,” her mother reassured her.
Iyman Hamad, a Palestinian American public ...Read more
A Kentucky lawmaker had a nonviable pregnancy. State abortion bans made her loss more agonizing
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Almost a year to the day after Rep. Lindsey Burke gave birth to twins — one dead, the other alive — she walked out of a legislative committee meeting in Frankfort.
Burke, one of three Kentucky Democrats who walked out that day, was protesting a bill she said shamed the choice to abort a nonviable pregnancy.
Burke herself...Read more
The race for Georgia's 3rd District is a new test of Donald Trump's mettle
ATLANTA — When former President Donald Trump arrived in Atlanta earlier this month for a high-dollar fundraiser, he seemed joined at the hip with a lower-profile former aide trying to make a big impact in Georgia politics.
For years, Brian Jack has toiled in the shadows as an aide to a range of GOP luminaries, including former House Speaker ...Read more
Editorial: 9th Circuit went too far with homelessness ruling
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals — which has jurisdiction over nine states, including Nevada — has a reputation as one of the most liberal courts in the country. It also has the dubious distinction of being the appellate court most likely to be reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Expect the 9th Circuit’s creative ruling in a case ...Read more
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