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It's always fascinating to me how people can go from a situation of brutal oppression to becoming the oppressors. Some free blacks owned slaves and profited from the slave trade.
Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein directs questions during the Senate Judiciary Committee's confirmation hearing of Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on September 5. Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee entered the confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh with concerns about his record and his views. After four days of testimony and questions, those concerns remain - and in some cases have increased considerably.
Gubernatorial candidates Mike Dunleavy, Bill Walker and Mark Begich introduce themselves at a Juneau Chamber of Commerce forum on Sept. 6. The candidates differ over abortion.
One of the oldest and most heated intra-libertarian disputes is over the ability to electively end a pregnancy. Historically, the pro-abortion rights position has had more sway.
An appeals court issued a ruling Monday that will make it harder for abortion clinics to open or remain in business. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis overturned a 2017 ruling that prevented the state of Missouri from enforcing laws that required abortion doctors to have the legal authority to admit patients at hospitals and that mandated abortion clinics to pay for expensive upgrades to bring them up to hospital standards as ambulatory surgical centers.
Activists sent coat hangers to Maine Sen. Susan Collins's office to protest against confirming Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. The Republican senator's office received 3,000 coat hangers, which served as reminders of back-alley abortions, according to The Associated Press Saturday.
That's the history lesson for Republicans eagerly anticipating Brett Kavanaugh's ascension to the Supreme Court, which could cement conservative control of the court for a generation. When and how steep? That depends on how momentous the issues and how jolting the decisions, according to legal scholars who've studied the high court's impact on electoral politics.
Good Tuesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. If state voters know two things about Republican governor candidate Scott Wagner , they know he's a fan of President Donald Trump and that he prides himself on being vehemently anti-abortion.
Visiting the McLean County Fair Friday night, Erika Harold said she has many disagreements with the Republican governor, including his signing into a law a bill expanding taxpayer support for abortions to include women on Medicaid and state employee insurance. Sen. Kwame Raoul's campaign told me that if Harold's going to distance herself from Rauner on HB40, "it's only fair that she is forthright and held accountable on just how far away she is."
Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim, left, shown here with to Ned Lamont, the party-endorsed Democratic candidate for governor, wants to protect abortion rights with an amendment to the state Constitution. Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim, left, shown here with to Ned Lamont, the party-endorsed Democratic candidate for governor, wants to protect abortion rights with an amendment to the state Constitution.
Abortion-rights advocates are intensifying efforts to make it easier for women to get abortions amid a new wave of state-level bans and restrictions expected to occur under a reconfigured U.S. Supreme Court. The efforts include boosting financial aid for women needing to travel long distances to get an abortion, and raising awareness about the option of do-it-yourself abortions.
Kavanaugh's record suggests he would vote to support abortion restrictions if he... Twice in the past year, Brett Kavanaugh offered glimpses of his position on abortion that strongly suggest he would vote to support restrictions if confirmed to the Supreme Court. One was in a dissent in the case of a 17-year-old migrant seeking to terminate her pregnancy.
Governors from a growing number of states are fighting a proposal by the Trump administration to bar clinics that provide abortion services or referrals from receiving family-planning funds. New York's Andrew Cuomo, D, and 13 others have threatened to sue.
JULY 10: Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, left, and Vice President Mike Pence meet with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., left, in McConnell's office in the Capitol on Tuesday, July 10, 2018, the day after President Donald Trump nominated Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Sometime in the next few months, the Senate will vote on whether or not to kill Roe v.
In this Friday, 20, 2018 photo, Adalicia Montecinos holds her 1-year-old son Johan, who became a poster child for the U.S. policy of separating immigrants and their children, the day there were reunited, at a restaurant in Yojoa, Honduras. Captured by Border Patrol agents in March, Johan's father was deported and the then 10-month-old remained at an Arizona shelter.
At Planned Parenthood's office on Main Street, Hochul said President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, will likely be confirmed, making the high court "completely pro-life." Hochul says Trump is going to turn his back on reproductive health choices and she is calling on the State Senate to reconvene and make Roe v.
Last week, President Trump nominated federal appeals court judge Brett Kavanaugh to fill the Supreme Court seat opened by the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy. Immediately, coverage of the nomination focused on abortion and whether Judge Kavanaugh's confirmation would spell the end of the constitutional right recognized in Roe v.
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has ordered the state's Medicaid agency to continue covering "necessary medical care and important women's health and family planning services" but also "to terminate abortion clinics as Medicaid providers." The executive order, directed at the state Department of Health and Human Services late last week, comes after the Republican vetoed $16 million in family planning funds from the state budget.
State and reproductive rights attorneys are going head to head again in federal court on Monday to argue whether Texas should require health providers to cremate or bury fetal remains. "It's a tough case for everybody," U.S. District Judge David Alan Ezra said Friday during a pretrial hearing.