Matthew Vadum
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Republican States Ask Supreme Court to Strike Down Blue-State Abortion Shield Laws (opens the original)
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Three Republican-led states asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 1 to invalidate abortion “shield laws” that protect abortion providers in three Democrat-led states. Attorneys general from Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, argue that shield laws in California, Massachusetts, and New York undercut their abortion bans and their authority to enforce them. Federal rules allow abortion pills to be prescribed by telehealth and delivered by mail. The three states want to keep the drugs out of their states
Trade Court Hears Challenge to Trump’s Forced Labor Tariffs (opens the original)
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The U.S. Court of International Trade heard arguments on Sept. 30 over President Donald Trump’s tariffs on goods from 60 trading partners that the administration imposed after concluding those partners failed to block goods made with forced labor. The United States already bars goods made with forced labor, including a presumption against products from China’s Xinjiang region. The recent tariffs instead hit 60 trading partners for failing to ban or police such goods themselves. Those challenging
Supreme Court Allows Tennessee to Execute Convicted Murderer Christa Pike (opens the original)
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The U.S. Supreme Court late on Sept. 30 lifted a lower court’s stay of execution for Christa Gail Pike, clearing the way for Tennessee’s first execution of a woman in more than 200 years. Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented. The 10 a.m. execution was paused after the Sixth Circuit requested more time to determine whether Pike’s history of childhood sexual abuse was fully presented when a jury convicted her and sentenced her to death in 1996. Not long after,
DOJ Files Ethics Complaint Against Minnesota Judges Who Spoke to NYT (opens the original)
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U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche said Sept. 30 that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a judicial misconduct complaint against federal judges in Minnesota who granted interviews to The New York Times about the immigration enforcement surge there. The fact that the judges spoke with the media is a “clear violation of their ethical duties,” Blanche said at a press conference, criticizing them for commenting on active cases. Blanche said the judge told the newspaper that most, if not
Supreme Court Denies Stay of Execution for Tennessee Murderer Christa Pike (opens the original)
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Sept. 29 denied a stay of execution for Christa Gail Pike, clearing the way for Tennessee’s first execution of a woman in more than 200 years. Unless there is some other extraordinary legal filing, the state is expected to execute Pike, 50, by lethal injection at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville at 10 a.m. Central Daylight Time on Sept. 30. She is the only female inmate on Tennessee’s death row. A Knox County jury convicted her in 1996 of first-degree
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