roe v. wade

For a comedian-turned-politician with no formal legal training, the newest senator and Judiciary Committee member, Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) asked Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor some of the most complex but elucidating questions about Supreme Court cases we’ve heard yet. After bonding with Sotomayor over their mutual love of the Perry Mason show as kids, [...]

Why is it that so many judicial confirmation hearings are dominated by questions from senators that they know the nominee can’t really answer?
Senator Herb Kohl (D-Wis.), just spent much of his questioning time asking Judge Sonia Sotomayor whether she a) believes there is a right to privacy, as the Supreme court has ruled there is; [...]

Planned Parenthood battled anti-abortion groups in civil court in the 1990s — and won.

I spent the early afternoon at the March for Life, the annual rally held on the National Mall to mark the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, to see how the 48-hour-old Obama presidency was playing.

In talking about kids with disabilities, the Alaska governor uses words and phrases generally associated with the anti-abortion movement, effectively reminding anti-abortion voters that she shares and supports their view.

John McCain has promised to appoint conservative Supreme Court justices who could radically alter the ideological makeup of the court.