U.S. SUPREME COURT

With the House and Senate passing the Respect for Marriage Act, here is a look at some of the legal precedents surrounding interracial and same-sex marriages.

During a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday, the Rev. Rob Schenk said he knew the outcome of a pivotal religious freedom decision weeks before the Supreme Court released it in 2014.

With the passage of the the Respect for Marriage Act, which protects same-sex and interracial marriages, The Associated Press is republishing its 1967 story by reporter Karl R.

On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples had the right to marry.

The Respect for Marriage Act has been largely focused on the protection the law gives to same-sex couples.

One day in the 1970s, Paul Fleisher and his wife were walking through a department store parking lot when they noticed a group of people looking at them. In the more than half-century since, interracial marriage has become more common and far more accepted. It would ensure that not only same-sex marriages, but also interracial marriages, are enshrined in federal law.

The Supreme Court seems skeptical of making a broad ruling that would leave state legislatures virtually unchecked when making rules for elections for Congress and the presidency.

With the country deeply divided over whether to trust elections, North Carolina says the U.S. Constitution gives state legislatures, not courts or governors, complete oversight.

The justices will test the "independent state legislature theory" in a case that could have far-reaching consequences for elections.

Should they convince the court of the merits of their independent state legislature theory, politicians of either party could conduct elections however they chose, free of concern that a court or a governor could interfere. So, for instance, the North Carolina Supreme Court’s 2013 finding that new legislative maps drawn after the 2010 Census were “the most restrictive voting laws North Carolina has seen since the era of Jim Crow” and “targeted African American voters with almost surgical precision” would be toothless. She’s been before the Supreme Court before, in a Texas redistricting case in 2018 and another North Carolina case in 2019. The plaintiffs’ argument for an “independent state legislature theory” of election law, Daye said, “goes beyond just redistricting. Senators are chosen, from being appointed by state legislatures to instead being voted for in statewide elections.

303 Creative owner Lorie Smith spoke to Fox News Digital about her case before the Supreme Court and various threats she says she's received since filing suit in 2016.

The Supreme Court is eyeing Colorado's law barring businesses from discriminating against gay, lesbian or transgender people in a free-speech challenge.

Same-sex couples say they're happy that Congress is moving quickly to ensure nationwide recognition of gay marriage.

Legislation that ensures same-sex and interracial marriages are recognized as legal unions appears headed for final approval and President Joe Biden’s signature.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority is sounding sympathetic to a Christian graphic artist who objects to designing wedding websites for gay couples.

The court will hear arguments Wednesday in a case involving the "independent state legislature theory."

Indiana's Republican attorney general can continue his investigation of an Indianapolis doctor who spoke publicly about providing an abortion to a 10-year-old rape victim.

A bipartisan group of 61 senators, including 12 Republicans, voted for the measure.

The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals allowed on Monday the reinstatement of a 2016 Indiana law requiring abortion clinics to either bury or cremate fetal remains.

A federal appeals court has reinstated an Indiana law adopted in 2016 that requires abortion clinics to either bury or cremate fetal remains. The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling released Monday overturns an Indiana judge’s decision in September that the law infringed upon the religious and free speech rights of people who do not believe aborted fetuses deserve the same treatment as deceased people. The appeals court cited a 2019 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the fetal remains provisions of the law signed by then-Gov. Mike Pence and that the state had a legitimate interest in how those remains are disposed.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit is debating whether streaming is different from recording, and whether passengers in cars can record at all.

A federal trial to determine whether South Carolina’s congressional maps are legal is closing with arguments over whether the state Legislature diluted Black voting power.

3 randomly selected entrants who had all correct answers will receive a KidsPost prize package.

Lawmakers in France’s lower house of parliament have begun debating a proposal to enshrine abortion rights in the country’s constitution

The court's decision immediately prohibited enforcement of the abortion ban statewide. The new order said seven of the nine justices had agreed to the decision.

The Georgia Supreme Court on Wednesday temporarily reinstated the state's law that allows abortion up to six weeks of pregnancy while the court considers an appeal in the case.

Georgia’s ban originally took effect in July, after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

The Georgia Supreme Court has reinstated the state’s ban on abortions after roughly six weeks of pregnancy.

Election wins for abortion rights and Democrats could translate into abortion protections in some states.

Former President Trump has responded to the U.S. Supreme Court's rejection of his attempts to block the handing over of his tax records to House Democrats.

After months of failed legal challenges, Sen. Lindsey O. Graham appeared before a special grand jury investigating efforts by former President Donald Trump.

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected Glenhaven Healthcare’s bid to move a lawsuit into federal court. The case refers to a nursing home resident who died from COVID-19.

A former anti-abortion leader claims he was told the outcome of a 2014 case weeks before it was announced publicly, according to a report from The New York Times.

“I am very worried,” writes UC Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky. | Opinion

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was monitoring social media reactions after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in late June, according to a new report.

South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham's appearance before Georgia's Fulton County grand jury regarding an election probe into former President Trump was delayed again.

The state Court of Appeals earlier determined that Kruithoff’s parental rights were wrongly terminated. The state Supreme Court later reversed that ruling, allowing the boy to stay with his adoptive parents who have cared for him for almost his entire life. There, a judge terminated both parents’ parental rights after Kruithoff did not respond to a legal notice in The Grand Rapids Press within a required 28-day period. The Supreme Court reversed the ruling and said the filing in the divorce action did not satisfy SDNL requirements. Four months after his parental rights were severed, he subpoenaed Catholic Charities for confidential adoption records, Speaker said.

Alabama has called off the scheduled execution of a man convicted in the 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of a preacher’s wife after the state had trouble establishing venous access and the state faced a midnight deadline to get the execution underway.

In 2019, Georgia passed a ban on abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, which is usually about six weeks into pregnancy.

Judge Robert McBurney overturned Georgia's ban on abortion starting around six weeks into a pregnancy, ruling that it violated precedent when it was enacted three years ago and was therefore void.

Judge Robert McBurney blocked Georgia's law outlawing most abortions after six weeks, ruling that it was unconstitutional when it was enacted.

Georgia's ban on abortion starting around six weeks into a pregnancy has been overturned by a judge.

The office of Georgia's attorney general says it will appeal a ruling that overturns a ban on most abortions starting around six weeks of pregnancy.

A judge overturned Georgia’s ban on abortion starting around six weeks into a pregnancy, ruling Tuesday that it violated the U.S. Constitution and U.S. Supreme Court precedent when it was enacted. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney's ruling applies statewide. Kara Richardson, a spokesperson for Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr, said in an email that the office intends to pursue an “immediate appeal."

Biden’s team allegedly misinterpreted a healthcare provision that bars providers from discriminating against sex. Biden's team wanted to include sexual orientation and gender identity.

Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh were honored at the conservative Federalist Society's gala on Thursday night.

Abortion rights supporters won in the four states where access was on the ballot.

Voters in several states were asked to weigh in on ballot measures specifically related to abortion rights.

DETROIT – One hundred and thirty-seven days after the U.S. Supreme Court pushed abortion rights back to the states, Michiganders made their decision. Despite the support, Proposal 3 almost didn’t make the ballot because of a word spacing error that was resolved by the state Supreme Court. That law, which includes only an exception for the mother’s life being at risk, was ruled unconstitutional by a judge in September but could have been OK’d by the Michigan Supreme Court. “We’ve knocked doors, we’ve made phone calls, we’ve gotten hung up on, we’ve gotten cussed out. Work on the ballot proposal has been in the works since 2021 – long before Roe v. Wade was overturned.

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated PressVoters in several states are weighing in on fundamental questions about how future elections will function as scores of ballot measures addressing an array of issues are being decided. Several of the more than 130 state ballot measures in Tuesday’s elections would affect the way voters cast ballots by adding or limiting identification requirements, expanding advance voting periods and — in one state — switching to ranked choice voting. At least a dozen states are deciding whether to raise or cut taxes for certain people, property owners or businesses. After an advance voting proposal failed in 2014, Connecticut voters are again deciding on a proposed constitutional amendment authorizing the Democratic-led General Assembly to create an early voting law. Other Arizona ballot measures would rein in citizen initiatives by limiting them to a single subject and requiring a 60% vote to approve future initiatives containing tax increases.

Vermont will vote in Tuesday's election on a proposition to fully protect reproductive rights, such as including the right to abortion in the state's constitution.

At issue is whether the the Indian Child Welfare Act — aimed at preventing Native American children from being separated from their tribes — is tribal protection or racial classification.

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Wednesday on the most significant challenge to a law that gives preference to Native American families in foster care and adoption proceedings of Native children. (Nov. 7)

California Gov. Newsom has posthumously pardoned a 1940s abortion activist, days before residents will finish voting on whether to put abortion rights in the state Constitution.

A Michigan League for Public Policy study reports that losing access to reproductive rights would profoundly affect the economic security of individual women, their families, and their communities

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Wednesday on the most significant challenge to a law that gives preference to Native American families in foster care and adoption proceedings of Native children.

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Wednesday on the most significant challenge to a law that gives preference to Native American families in foster care and adoption proceedings of Native children. (Nov. 7)

Pennsylvania Republicans wrote to the secretary of state with concerns about the election process after a court ruling voiding misdated ballots.

(AP) — The public will keep the right to use Indiana’s Lake Michigan shoreline for recreation as the U.S. Supreme Court won’t consider arguments from nearby property owners who claimed they also owned the beach. The court’s decision was released Monday without any explanation in an order turning down dozens of cases from around the country. The high court’s action keeps in place a 2018 Indiana Supreme Court ruling. That means the shoreline is available to the public for walking, fishing, boating, swimming and other recreational purposes. A federal appeals court in Chicago declined in May to overturn the Indiana Supreme Court’s decision.

The reliability of a document by one of the U.S. Constitution's framers has long been under serious doubt. North Carolina Republicans cited it in a case that could upend election laws.

The public will keep the right to use Indiana’s Lake Michigan shoreline for recreation as the U.S. Supreme Court won’t consider arguments from nearby property owners who claimed they also owned the beach.

A lawyer for a man on Arizona’s death row has told the U.S. Supreme Court that jurors in the case were wrongly told that the only way to ensure the man would never walk free was to sentence him to death.

A conservative majority on the Supreme Court is expected to be open to the idea of ending the use of race, or affirmative action, in college admissions.

The U.S. Supreme Court may end affirmative action in university admissions through two cases it is set to hear Monday involving suits against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Abortion access in several states could hinge out the outcome of November elections of lawmakers, governors, supreme court justices and attorneys general.

The court will hear two cases challenging the constitutionality of race-conscious admissions at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The two sides of the abortion rights amendment on Michigan’s November ballot have raked in more than $50 million in donations since late July, as supporters are outraising opponents and polling ahead. Main opposition group Citizens to Support MI Women and Children, per its report, raised nearly $17 million over the same period. RFFA has raised more than $42 million total and spent more than $30 million. Read more: What would Prop 3 do: A guide to Michigan’s abortion rights ballot proposalBut the proposal would also guarantee rights to other procedures like contraception and sterilization. SpartanNash CEO offers apparent criticism of abortion rights proposal in company emailThe gloves come off in second Whitmer-Dixon debateHow do I vote?

A federal judge in Maryland said he is likely to order a mental evaluation for a California man charged with trying to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

A trial to determine whether Georgia can continue to ban abortion as early as six weeks into a pregnancy is underway in an Atlanta courtroom.

Voters in a handful of states will weigh in on abortion in this year’s election in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade and left abortion rights to the states.

Sen. Lindsey Graham has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene after a lower court ordered him to testify before a special grand jury in Georgia investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to influence the 2020 election in the state.

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett has rejected an appeal from a Wisconsin taxpayers group seeking to stop the Biden administration’s student debt cancellation program.

A legal battle over an endangered toad and a geothermal power plant in Nevada has many similarities to the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark case on the Endangered Species Act nearly a half-century ago.

Free vasectomies will be available next month at three Planned Parenthood clinics in Missouri amid a surge in demand for the procedure after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

Video of a landmark 2010 trial that cleared the way for gay marriage in California can be made public, the culmination of a years-long legal fight.

The Supreme Court is weighing a California animal cruelty law that pork producers say could upend their industry and raise the cost of pork products nationwide.

Abortions can take place again in Arizona, at least for now, after an appeals court on Friday blocked the enforcement of a pre-statehood law that almost entirely criminalized the procedure.

The Colorado baker who won a partial Supreme Court victory after refusing on religious grounds to make a wedding cake for a gay couple a decade ago is challenging a separate ruling that he violated the state’s anti-discrimination law — this time over complaints he refused to make a birthday cake celebrating a gender transition.

At least 66 clinics have stopped providing abortions in 15 states since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade.

Lawyers for former President Donald Trump have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to step into the legal fight over the classified documents seized during an FBI search of his Florida estate.

The satirical site The Onion has some serious things to say in defense of parody.

A Phoenix abortion clinic has developed a way for patients who can end their pregnancy using a pill to get the medication quickly without running afoul of a resurrected Arizona law that bans most abortions.

Congressional districts that a federal court panel said were unconstitutional because they dilute representation for Black voters in Alabama are nevertheless being used for the November election after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed them.

The Supreme Court begins a new term on Monday at a time of diminished public confidence and justices sparring openly over the institution’s legitimacy.

Gun rights groups and firearms owners have launched another attempt to overturn Connecticut’s ban on certain semiautomatic rifles that was enacted in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

India’s Supreme Court has ruled that all women, regardless of marital status, can obtain abortions up to 24 weeks into their pregnancies.

An Arizona judge says the state can enforce a near-total ban on abortions that has been blocked for nearly 50 years.

A top state lawyer has derided arguments that Indiana’s new abortion ban violates the state constitution, saying that Indiana had such laws in place when the constitution was drafted in 1851 and that opponents of the ban are trying to invent a state right to privacy.

Yeshiva University has abruptly suspended student club activity in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court decision earlier this week that ordered the school to recognize for now an LGBTQ student group.

A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of a Texas law targeting major social media companies like Facebook and Twitter.

West Virginia’s Legislature has passed a sweeping abortion ban with few exceptions.

The Supreme Court has cleared the way for an LGBTQ group to gain official recognition from a Jewish university in New York, though that may not last.

Chief Justice John Roberts is defending the authority of the Supreme Court to interpret the Constitution, saying its role should not be called into question just because people disagree with its decisions.

The battle over abortion rights in Michigan will be decided by voters this November.That decision came down Thursday from the Michigan Supreme Court in a 5-2 vote.

South Carolina senators have rejected a ban on almost all abortions in a special session.

Strict, anti-abortion Republicans running in competitive House, Senate and governor’s races in key battleground states are trying to distance themselves from their past statements and positions.

South Carolina House members plan to debate a new total ban on abortion Tuesday with no exceptions for pregnancies caused by rape or incest even as some Republicans in the GOP-dominated chamber suggested they can’t vote for the bill as written.

The large fencing that has encircled the U.S. Supreme Court for months has now been removed.

A federal judge has barred Idaho from enforcing a strict abortion ban in medical emergencies, clearing the way for hospitals to continue treating ectopic pregnancies and other pregnancy-related complications normally for now.

Abortion rights remains a salient political issue for Democrats, as a special election in New York showed on Tuesday.