Samuel Alito

The Biden administration and abortion-rights providers in separate briefs slammed the Texas law as unconstitutional and designed to avoid court review.

If the Supreme Court considers arguments to overturn Roe v. Wade’s precedent for abortion rights, “it should reject them,” the Justice Department said.

The arguments were filed in response to two separate petitions challenging the restrictive Texas law, which bans most abortions after as early as the sixth week of pregnancy.

Police reform advocates have called for an end to qualified immunity, arguing it insulates officers from accountability for wrongdoing.

The Justice Department said it will ask the Supreme Court to effectively halt the enforcement of a restrictive Texas abortion law while legal disputes play out.

The draft came as the Supreme Court is set to consider pivotal cases that center on politically polarizing issues, including abortion, guns and religion.

The Supreme Court heard arguments on whether the death sentence should be reinstated for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, convicted in the deadly Boston Marathon bombing.

The court recently voted not to block a Texas law banning most abortions, and it is set to consider a case challenging Roe v. Wade.

Supreme Court justices asked if the U.S. would allow a Guantanamo Bay detainee to testify about his alleged torture and confinement by the CIA.

The heavy police presence, which included dozens of officers and multiple police dogs, came on just the second of the Supreme Court’s new term.

The Supreme Court resumed in-person oral arguments for the first time since the Covid pandemic began, kicking off a politically fraught new term.

Kavanaugh, 56, is showing no symptoms of the virus, the court said. He has been fully vaccinated against Covid since January.

The court is poised to consider pivotal cases that broach some of the most contentious issues in American politics, including religion, guns and abortion.

A group of abortion providers and advocates asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to quickly review their challenge to a highly restrictive abortion law in Texas.

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Dec. 1 in a Mississippi abortion case challenging the decades-old protections of Roe v. Wade.

The Supreme Court, stacked 6-3 with conservative justices had rejected a bid to block the controversial Texas abortion law from taking effect.

The return to in-person proceedings was announced more than a year after the coronavirus pandemic forced the Supreme Court to hear cases over the phone.

The decision “is an unprecedented assault on a woman’s constitutional rights under Roe v. Wade,” Biden said in a searing statement.

Petitioners say the restrictive Texas abortion law, which took effect Wednesday, would essentially overturn the precedent set by Roe v. Wade.

The Supreme Court has formally rejected a handful of cases related to the 2020 election, including disputes from Pennsylvania that had divided the justices just before the election.