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WASHINGTON — The chief justice of the United States, John Roberts, warned Friday that the Supreme Court risks losing its own authority if it allows states to circumvent the courts as Texas did with its near-total abortion ban. In a strongly worded opinion joined by the high court’s three liberal justices, Roberts wrote that the "clear purpose and actual effect" of the Texas law was "to nullif...

In a post-Roe world, states would be able to enact additional life-affirming policies that protect unborn children. The bill would effectively repeal existing state laws and expressly prohibit future laws that regulate abortion and the abortion industry. In order to become law, both the House and Senate must pass such a bill, and the president has to sign it into law. The left will continue p...

A government transparency group has sued Washington’s bipartisan Redistricting Commission, alleging its final vote on the state’s new political maps violated the state’s Open Public Meetings Act. The Washington Coalition for Open Government filed the lawsuit Thursday in Thurston County Superior Court, saying commissioners flouted the public meetings law by negotiating secretly for hours on No...

The Supreme Court in Washington, Nov. 29. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images Regarding Peggy Noonan’s “Will the Justices Let Go of Abortion?” (Declarations, Dec. 4): I was a nurse in the 1960s, before Roe v. Wade (1973). Women who were desperate for abortions got them. Those who could afford it flew to countries where it was safe and legal. Those who couldn’t afford it went to underground...

Sheriff's deputies watch protesters outside the Oklahoma County office building in Oklahoma City, July 20, 2020. Photo: Sue Ogrocki/Associated Press “How to Get Away With Manslaughter” (Review & Outlook, Dec. 4) uses provocative anecdotes to attack a Supreme Court ruling that reminded Oklahoma that U.S. treaties with tribal nations mean something. Oklahoma media offer a different pe...

Stabler will soon have his hands full with a Gotham vet: Robin Lord Taylor will recur on Law & Order: Organized Crime as Sebastian McClane, a notorious hacker also known as Constantine, Give Me My Remote reports. Bell’s task force is brought in to catch Constantine, who is one of several high-security convicts on the run after a prison break. “He sets off a chain reaction of events that b...

LOS ANGELES — Immediate relief from California’s affordable housing crisis may not come next year even though a series of new laws is scheduled to go into effect Jan. 1, advocates and experts warn. Efforts are already underway to undercut legislation recently signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom. Opponents say the housing laws strip cities and counties of control over zoning and do not ensure...

OPD admin building at 7th and Broadway Alameda County Public Defender Brendon Woods and three senior members of his staff made an appearance before the Oakland Police Commission Thursday evening to allege that the Oakland Police Department is violating a 2017 state law that strengthened children’s rights to legal counsel after they’re arrested. “OPD is routinely doing this,” said Alphonso Man...

An Adirondack Watershed Institute boat steward. Explorer file photo Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday signed a new law enabling the establishment of more boat inspection stations in and around the Adirondack Park aimed at minimizing the spread of aquatic invasive species. The new law authorizes the state Department of Environmental Conservation to establish aquatic invasive species inspection stati...

On November 30, American students were once again the victims of a school shooting—this time in Oxford, Michigan where a 15-year-old killed four of his classmates and injured seven others. The Oxford prosecutor has charged the parents with involuntary manslaughter, opening up new legal ground in these all too frequent and peculiarly American episodes of mass murder. Here, gun law expert Profe...