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“I want to fight”: LGBTQ Texans ready for legislative session as GOP lawmakers target them in dozens of bills

Republicans are backing legislation targeting gender-affirming care for children, classroom lessons about sexuality and drag shows.

The Texas Tribune

Maryland Democrats seek to wield increased power as General Assembly tackles recreational pot, paid leave and gun control

BALTIMORE — Cannabis, abortion rights and gun control are expected to dominate debates by state lawmakers in the coming months as the Maryland General Assembly begins its annual legislative session Wednesday.

Tribune News Service

South Carolina's Supreme Court Says the State Constitution Protects a Right to Abortion

The court ruled that the state's six-week abortion ban violates the right to privacy.

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South Carolina’s 6-week abortion ban is unconstitutional, state Supreme Court rules

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Supreme Court on Thursday struck down the state’s six-week abortion ban, ruling 3-2 that it violated the state’s constitutional right to privacy.

Tribune News Service

South Carolina's 6-week abortion ban is unconstitutional, state Supreme Court rules

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Supreme Court on Thursday struck down the state’s six-week abortion ban, ruling it violated the state’s constitutional right to privacy.

Tribune News Service

US unveils new border curbs for Haitians, Cubans, Nicaraguans

Joe Biden says new rules allowing asylum seekers to be returned to Mexico aim to reduce arrivals at US southern border.

Al Jazeera

South Carolina Supreme Court strikes down anti-abortion law

State law banning procedure at roughly six weeks is ‘unreasonable’ and unconstitutional, according to ‘monumental’ ruling hailed by southern abortion rights advocates

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South Carolina Supreme Court strikes down state abortion ban

The South Carolina ban on abortions after cardiac activity is no more after the latest legal challenge to the state’s 2021 law proved successful

The Independent UK

US FDA allows sale of abortion pills at pharmacies for first time

Regulatory change to expand abortion access comes after more than a dozen states banned abortion.

Al Jazeera

Democrats take control as Minnesota Legislature convenes

Democrats took full control of state government as the Minnesota Legislature convened for its 2023 session Tuesday

The Independent UK

Oregon Supreme Court Orders New Trials for Hundreds Convicted by Split Juries

Oregon was one of only two states that allowed for non-unanimous guilty verdicts until the Supreme Court outlawed them in 2020.

Reason

Taxes fall, wages rise and jaywalking OK'd by new state laws

Taxes will be falling and wages rising as new laws take effect Sunday in numerous states

The Independent UK

These were the top political stories of 2022

There was a lot that happened in politics this year, from the consequential midterm elections to the Supreme Court's historic abortion ruling and record migration at the southern border.

WEKU

Ginni Thomas saw no evidence of fraud

"I was just hearing it from news reports and friends on the ground," Thomas admitted to the J6 committee

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Stories that defined the US and Canada in 2022

The year 2022 saw former US President Trump facing legal action, Pope Francis apologising in Canada and mass shootings.

WEKU

Court rules doctors who provide abortions can't be prosecuted under Arizona law

The law in question was enacted before Arizona became a state, carrying a sentence of two to five years in prison for anyone who assists in an abortion and providing no exceptions for rape or incest.

Tribune News Service

Where does Missouri get the drugs it uses to execute prisoners? The supplier is a secret

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — For the first time since 2015, Missouri has returned to executing multiple people on death row per year — two in 2022 and two scheduled so far for 2023 — but details about the process remain shrouded in secrecy.

Reason

Criminal Procedure Casebooks and Generational Change

Thoughts on revising a classic Crim Pro casebook.

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Five ways the US Supreme Court reshaped policy in 2022

The court’s new conservative majority issued rulings over the past year on abortion, gun rights, religion and more.

France 24

With advances and setbacks, a year of struggle for women's rights

From the US revoking the federal right to abortion to Afghanistan mandating the burqa and gradually banning women from public spaces, FRANCE 24 takes a look back at the main events that marked the struggle for women’s rights around the world over the past year.

Reason

New York's Ultra-Broad Definition of "Blight" Continues to Enable Eminent Domain Abuse

In this case, it enables the state to declare the area around Penn Station in New York City "blighted" and thereby authorize the use of eminent domain to take property for transfer to private interests.

WEKU

Bleeding and in pain, she couldn't get 2 Louisiana ERs to answer: Is it a miscarriage?

When she was pregnant, Kaitlyn Joshua struggled to get medical care — and answers — in post-Roe Louisiana, where abortion is banned.

Chicago Sun-Times

Supreme Court ruling on Title 42 casts asylum seekers as ‘political tool,’ Chicago immigration advocate says

“It’s completely antithetical to the U.S.’ obligations to recognize the rights of asylum seekers to come to this country and ask for protection.”

Daily Mirror

Donald Trump’s tax returns to finally be made public in just days for first time

The tax returns of ex-President Donald Trump from running for the White House to when he left in 2021 are set to be released to the public after a long-running court dispute

Reuters

Slipping over Mexico border, migrants get the jump on U.S. court ruling

Even before the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday opted to keep in place a measure aimed at deterring border crossings, hundreds of migrants in northern Mexico were taking matters into their own hands to slip into the United States.

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