Category: US Supreme Court

Maternal mortality rates decline worldwide except US

New York [US], Mar. 7 : While the maternal mortality rates are declining worldwide, the situation for women in the United States is a glaring exception. And in Texas, where clinics serving women have shuttered and their health interests have been battled all the way up to the US Supreme Court, the rate of pregnancy-related deaths more than doubled over the course of two years.

Bills would ban religion exception to birth control coverage

Democratic lawmakers are proposing Nevada mandate that all health insurance plans cover birth control regardless of religious objections to contraceptives by family-owned businesses – an exemption recently validated by the nation’s highest court. Two bills introduced in the Legislature would delete state laws that allow employers to exclude birth control pills and devices from their insurance plans if they oppose those treatments on religious grounds.

Activists on both sides of abortion issue protest across the US

Antiabortion groups have called demonstrations at more than 200 Planned Parenthood locations throughout the United States on Saturday to urge Congress and President Donald Trump to strip the women’s health provider of federal funding. Antiabortion activists have said they were energized by the election of Republican Trump, who selected their long-time ally Mike Pence as vice president and nominated conservative jurist Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Activists on both sides of abortion issue to protest across U.S

Anti-abortion groups have called demonstrations at more than 200 Planned Parenthood locations throughout the United States on Saturday to urge Congress and President Donald Trump to strip the women’s health provider of federal funding. Anti-abortion activists have said they were energized by the election of Republican Trump, who selected their long-time ally Mike Pence as vice president and nominated conservative jurist Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Thanking Justice Roberts

National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius case which held that the “penalty” for not buying health insurance was actually a “tax” and therefore constitutional.

Trump’s DOJ lays out travel ban defense

FEBRUARY 05: The U.S. Supreme Court is shown February 5, 2009 in Washington, DC. It was announced today that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had surgery after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Reality show comparisons in Trump announcement inescapable

President Donald Trump’s past life as a television showman provided an irresistible comparison for the media covering his nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court. Trump’s announcement from the White House on Tuesday had a prime-time slot with broadcast and cable news networks all on hand, genuine suspense over the choice and, finally, the big reveal when Gorsuch and his wife, Louise, emerged from a doorway at the host’s – make that the president’s – request.

US Supreme Court won’t hear ‘Sister Wives’ bigamy law appeal

The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it won’t hear an appeal from the family on TV’s “Sister Wives” challenging Utah’s law banning polygamy. The decision ends the family’s long legal fight to overturn a seldom used and unique provision of Utah’s law that the Browns and other polygamous families contend has a chilling effect by sending law-abiding plural families into hiding because of fear of prosecution.

Reckless? Shaheen created this mess

… as she does. Shaheen had no such reservations on Christmas Eve 2009, when Senate Democrats rushed through a sloppy health care law without a single Republican vote. The death of Ted Kennedy, replaced by Republican Scott Brown, meant that Democrats …

Sanders will lead Democratic drive to organize rallies in every state against Medicare/Medicaid cuts

Donald Trump has won the presidency after narrowly carrying a few states to put him above 270 electoral votes.But according… Senate Republicans refused to give President Obama’s pick to replace Supreme Court Justice Scalia even the courtesy of a… Bernie Sanders doing the Democratic Party job of persuading congressional colleagues to help organize nationwide pre-inaugural protest rallies over potential cuts in Medicare and Medicaid, as well as other health matters Republicans are likely to take up in Congress come January.