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According to a filing by Justice Department attorneys in the E. Jean Carroll defamation case against President Trump, that answer is yes.

The Missouri Republican senator tipped conservatives' hand in an interview on Sunday.

The Supreme Court is set to radically alter immigration, abortion rights, and employment discrimination law—all in a matter of weeks.

Republicans have stacked the federal courts with ideologues willing to entrain any bad faith argument designed to overturn Roe—even the COVID-19 pandemic.

Democrats gathered at a forum in New Hampshire over the weekend to offer their plans to fix the federal courts. They didn't have much to offer.

The Roberts Court will hear arguments in the case in March. A decision is expected this summer.

This week, the U.S. Supreme Court let stand a court decision that dismissed as immaterial doctors' ethical concerns and equated an embryo with a person.

On the final day of the Court's term, Justice Clarence Thomas made it clear that abortion rights are in the conservative justice's crosshairs.

The rule would grant wide legal protections to those who refuse to provide health-care services based on their religious or conscience objections.

On Monday, Justice Brett Kavanaugh voted to turn away two cases trying to kick Planned Parenthood out of Medicaid—but that doesn't mean he's suddenly friendly on abortion rights.

A lawsuit filed in Minnesota state court accuses the retailer of refusing to give a flu shot to a customer because he's HIV-positive.

The Trump administration told a federal court on Thursday that it wouldn’t defend key provisions of the Affo

The ban on an overwhelmingly common method of second-trimester abortion could force Justice Anthony Kennedy to decide which he values more: evidence-based lawmaking or the power of the state to promote fetal life.

President Trump promised his religious imposition executive order would end litigation challenging Obamacare's birth control benefit. That hasn't proven true.

Unelected. Unilateral. These are important words in Trump’s attacks because they suggest a tyranny that does not, in fact, exist.

Within his first 48 hours as attorney general, Jeff Sessions made it clear that targeting LGBTQ rights would be a Department of Justice priority.

Gorsuch’s decision was largely adopted by the conservative Roberts Court majority in its 2014 decision ruling that secular, for-profit companies like Hobby Lobby could make religious objections to complying with certain regulations.

Abortion rights advocates have insisted, since the beginning of the fight over targeted regulation of abortion providers (TRAP) laws, that despite anti-choice lawmakers’ claims to the contrary, the evidence proved these restrictions harmed rather than advanced patient safety. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court final

Efforts by big business interests to block implementation of Seattle’s minimum wage increase took a step back Friday as a federal appeals court ruled the city’s wage law is constitutional.

Over three dissenting justices, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked Texas from enforcing key provisions of HB 2, the massive anti-abortion omnibus bill that has closed all but eight clinics in the state.