SCOTUS takes on abortion again, billionaires sought to help fund Trump's bond, SpaceX lawsuit says DOJ judges not properly appointed, and more ??
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?? Supreme Court starts arguments as Biden administration defends abortion pill access
The U.S. Supreme Court began hearing arguments on whether to restrict access to the abortion pill as President Joe Biden's administration fights to maintain broad access to the medication in a major case that thrusts reproductive rights back on the agenda of the justices in a presidential election year.
The Biden administration has appealed a lower court's ruling that would limit how the medication, called mifepristone, is prescribed and distributed. Four medical associations and four doctors who oppose abortion brought the challenge to mifepristone in Texas.
The Food and Drug Administration's regulatory changes at risk in the case include allowing for medication abortions at up to 10 weeks of pregnancy instead of seven, and for mail delivery of the drug without a woman first seeing a clinician in-person.
?? Billionaires sought to help fund Trump bond in civil fraud case, sources say
Some major Republican donors were working together to help U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump fund the original bond amount needed to cover his $454 million civil fraud judgment ahead of the March 25 deadline, three sources briefed on the matter told Reuters.
Trump needs to pay a bond in a New York civil case in which he was found liable for fraudulently inflating his net worth by billions of dollars to secure better loan and insurance terms.
On March 25, he won a bid to delay the enforcement of the judgment if he posts a smaller $175 million bond within 10 days, but until that last-minute reprieve he appeared to be struggling to raise the original amount and risked having his properties seized.
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?? In Christine Blasey Ford’s memoir, the making of a witness
In her new memoir "One Way Back,"?Christine Blasey Ford?offers behind-the-scenes details of how in accusing then-Supreme Court?nominee?Brett Kavanaugh?of sexually assaulting her when they were teens, she found herself in the spotlight.
Kavanaugh has vigorously denied the allegations.
In her latest column,?Jenna Greene?dives into the memoir and Ford’s account of?how her pro bono legal team helped (and sometimes hindered) her in telling her story.?
?? SpaceX lawsuit could gut protections for non-US citizen job seekers, DOJ says
SpaceX's lawsuit claiming administrative judges at the U.S. Department of Justice have been improperly appointed could dramatically curb enforcement of a federal law barring discrimination against job applicants based on citizenship, the department told a Texas federal judge.
The Justice Department in a motion for summary judgment filed in federal court in Brownsville, Texas, on March 22 said that because rulings by administrative judges can be reviewed by the U.S. attorney general, they do not have to be appointed by the president and confirmed by the U.S. Senate as SpaceX claims.
SpaceX in a lawsuit filed last year alleged that administrative judges appointed by the attorney general who hear citizenship bias cases filed by DOJ wield executive power that, under the U.S. Constitution, should be reserved only for presidential appointees.
Justice Department lawyers wrote:
"The legal theories advanced by (SpaceX) could, if accepted, eliminate all enforcement of an important civil rights statute."
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