Poll: Where Michigan voters stand on abortion ruling, contraception, SCOTUS job approval
A majority of Michigan voters disapprove of the Supreme Courtโs decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, and most believe the court is delving into politics, not legal reasoning, according to a new WDIV/Detroit News poll.
Whitmer urges Michigan Supreme Court to consider lawsuit on 1931 abortion law after Roe overturned
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer filed a motion urging the stateโs Supreme Court to consider her lawsuit challenging the 1931 abortion law following the U.S. Supreme Courtโs decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
LIVE STREAM: Ketanji Brown Jackson Supreme Court confirmation hearings
Watch live coverage as Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on her nomination to the Supreme Court by President Joe Biden. If confirmed, Jackson will be the first Black woman to serve on the nationโs highest court.
Supreme Court rejects Texas lawsuit to overturn Bidenโs election victory
HOUSTON โ The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a lawsuit backed by President Donald Trump to overturn Joe Bidenโs election victory, ending a desperate attempt to get legal issues rejected by state and federal judges before the nationโs highest court. The courtโs order was its second this week rebuffing Republican requests that it get involved in the 2020 election outcome. Trump had called the lawsuit filed by Texas against Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin โthe big oneโ that would end with the Supreme Court undoing Bidenโs substantial Electoral College majority and allowing Trump to serve another four years in the White House. But they would not have done as Texas wanted pending resolution of the lawsuit, and set aside those four statesโ 62 electoral votes for Biden. The four states sued by Texas had urged the court to reject the case as meritless.
Texas AG files lawsuit in U.S. Supreme Court against Michigan on election process
LANSING, Mich. โ Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a Lawsuit Tuesday claiming that Michigan and other battleground states altered election laws and flooded the state with ballots with no chain of custody. The lawsuit asks the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case after the Court declined to hear a Pennsylvania case that wanted to reverse that stateโs vote certification. The lawsuit repeats numerous false, disproven and unsupported allegations of illegal mail-in balloting and voting in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. This year, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson sent out applications to vote, not actual ballots, unless the voter completed the process to vote absentee. Their votes were counted, in some cases, multiple times.โThe audits will include a statewide risk-limiting audit, a complete zero-margin risk-limiting audit in Antrim County, and procedural audits in more than 200 jurisdictions statewide, including absentee ballot counting boards, according to the Bureau.
Texas attorney general files lawsuit against Michigan on election process
LANSING, Mich. โ Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a brief Tuesday claiming that Michigan and other battleground states altered election laws and flooded the state with ballots with no chain of custody. This year, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson sent out applications to vote, not actual ballots unless the voter completed the process to vote absentee. President Donald Trumpโs legal team has not been successful in Michigan so far. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court declined to hear a case that wanted to reverse Pennsylvaniaโs vote certification. Their votes were counted, in some cases, multiple times.โWatch the full report in the video posted above.
Poll: Michigan voters oppose filling Supreme Court seat before election, support Roe v. Wade and ACA
Majority oppose overturning Roe v. WadeMichigan voters strongly oppose overturning Roe v. Wade. 54.4% of Michigan voters STRONGLY OPPOSE overturning Roe v. Wade while only 18.5% STRONGLY SUPPORT overturning the decision. Catholic voters oppose overturning Roe v. Wade by a margin of 30.1% support/56.3% oppose. 49.2% of Catholic voters STRONGLY OPPOSE overturning Roe v. Wade. 34.8% of evangelical voters STRONGLY SUPPORT overturning the decision while 37.8% STRONGLY OPPOSE overturning the decision.
AP Explains: Whatโs next in battle over Supreme Court?
Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski have both said they wonโt support a confirmation vote before Election Day. If the vote were 50-50, Vice President Mike Pence could break the tie on a confirmation vote. โBut if I win this election, President Trumpโs nominee should be withdrawn. DIDNโT McCONNELL SAY IN 2016 THAT THE SENATE SHOULDNโT HOLD SUPREME COURT VOTES IN A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION YEAR? Four years later, McConnell says the Senate will vote on Trumpโs nominee, even though itโs weeks, not months, before an election.
Michigan health director recounts Ginsburg: โFierce defender of equality, a brilliant juristโ
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) director and a Wayne State University Law School professor are recounting their interaction with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. MDHHS Director Robert Gordon clerked for Ginsburg right out of Yale Law School. โShe was a quiet person. โShe was a wonderful combination of fierce defender of equality, a brilliant jurist and a kind human being.โWayne State University Law Schoolโs distinguished professor Robert Sedler is a contemporary of Ginburgโs, and they crossed paths over the years fighting for gender equality. The concern for people, the concern for equality, the concern for rights that is reflected in her opinion comes out when you meet her as a person,โ he said.
Supreme Court strikes down Louisiana abortion clinic law
WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court on Monday struck down a Louisiana law regulating abortion clinics, reasserting a commitment to abortion rights over fierce opposition from dissenting conservative justices in the first big abortion case of the Trump era. Chief Justice John Roberts joined with his four more liberal colleagues in ruling that the law requiring doctors who perform abortions have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals violates the abortion right the court first announced in the landmark Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. In two previous abortion cases, Roberts had favored restrictions.