If you heard about a well-funded right-wing group with a detailed plan to achieve conservative policy goals, you’d likely think of Project 2025. Yet Waggoner told Politico in March that “ADF has never advocated for limitations on access to contraception”—that’s because the organization views emergency contraceptives and IUDs as “abortion-inducing drugs and devices.” Cases: Conestoga Wood Specialties v. Burwell, Alliance …
A surprising decision by the Supreme Court this past week to not even consider taking up a challenge to a so-called "gay conversion" ban in Washington state caught the eyes of two legal scholars who claimed members of the nation's highest court seem to have had their fill of specious far-right legal claims. "That’s quite surprising, again, because those three …
Last week, the Supreme Court made two big moves in hot-button cases with major consequences for civil liberties in the United States. On Monday, the court refused to take up Tingley v. Ferguson, a First Amendment challenge to Washington state’s ban on LGBTQ+ conversion therapy for minors. Dahlia Lithwick: The court’s decision not to take this case means Washington state’s …
— A glass case in the history museum on the main street through this city celebrates its curious place in American lore: There’s a photo of John F. Kennedy Jr. on the courthouse steps, and Richard Nixon at Terre Haute’s little airport. A newsreel playing on a loop describes it as “magic town.” Vigo County, with about 107,000 people on …
