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What in the world is "zombie precedent"?

It may be Christmas and Hanukkah season, but I’ve got a Supreme Court ghost story to tell. It comes from Justice Antonin Scalia, who warned of a “ghoul in a […] The post What in the world is “zombie ...
Born and raised in West Lynn, in the “shade of the General Electric plant,” Alan I. Saltman grew up in a working-class household shaped by loss and perseverance. When Saltman was 4, his father, who ...
State Senator Mike McGuire spoke at a rally during a recess in the State of California-Providence trials outside the Humboldt ...
Three years after Dobbs, abortion access in Charlotte faces rising restrictions, protester aggression, and widening gaps in ...
Maine Gov. Janet Mills, known for advancing abortion rights, receives a key endorsement for her 2026 Senate bid against incumbent Susan Collins.
Every major question in American public life ultimately returns to a single source of authority: the Constitution. Whether ...
The Supreme Court is re-evaluating its past rulings, potentially overturning key legal precedents. Discover more here.
In Montana, abortion access has been at times illegal, legal, and stuck in limbo. Providers have weathered bombings and arson, advocates and opponents have battled it out in court, and citizens have ...
Atlanta nurse Adriana Smith, 30, was declared brain-dead in February when she was eight weeks pregnant. Because of Georgia's strict anti-abortion laws, she was kept on life support until doctors could ...
U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared poised on Tuesday to side with the operator of Christian faith-based anti-abortion "crisis pregnancy centers" in New Jersey in a dispute stemming from the state ...
Roe v. Wade attorney Linda Coffee's archive of nearly 150 case-related documents went under the hammer today — on the 53rd anniversary of the day when Coffee and her co-counsel, the late Sarah ...
The number of women who had tubal ligations — a type of surgery that permanently prevents pregnancy — jumped significantly following the U.S. Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, a new ...