Law & the Courts

(peakSTOCK/Getty Images) A Texas law banning abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected went into effect on Wednesday morning after the Supreme Court and a federal appeals court failed to act on emergency requests to stay the…

(Benoit Tessier/Reuters) An Ohio judge has ordered a local hospital to treat a coronavirus patient with the drug ivermectin, despite warnings from the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention not…

People camp out on the steps of the U.S. Capitol to highlight the expiration of the pandemic-related federal moratorium on residential evictions, in Washington, D.C., July 31, 2021. (Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters) Much of the Supreme…

Pro-life and pro-choice demonstrators outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., March 4, 2020 (Tom Brenner/Reuters) Texas is allowed to prohibit a common procedure used to abort second-trimester pregnancies, a federal appeals…

One pundit’s unique constitutional theory just does not work. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE N ewsweek opinion editor Josh Hammer has been on a campaign to market what he calls “common-good originalism” as a substitute method of constitutional…

Police officers work at a crime scene where gunmen killed at least 13 Mexican police officers in an ambush in Coatepec Harinas, Mexico, March 19, 2021. (Edgard Garrido/Reuters) It will not make the country any safer. Mexican officials,…

(artisteer/Getty Images) A tragic story takes a gravely wrong turn. By the time you read this column, Alta Fixsler may no longer be with us. Alta is a two-year-old who is severely disabled. She was put on a ventilator just about as…

The New York Times leaves out several key details from a report that tries to cast a cloud of suspicion over Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE O n Thursday, the New York Times published a report on the…

(Zolnierek/Getty Images) A coalition of New York public-defender groups filed an amicus brief Thursday urging the Supreme Court to invalidate the state’s concealed-carry ban. Among the attorney offices and legal-aid groups who signed…

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks during a news conference in New York City, May 10, 2021. (Mary Altaffer/Pool via Reuters) Prosecutors are expected to question New York governor Andrew Cuomo on Saturday as part of a probe into…