(CNN) The Supreme Court's ruling on Friday overturning Roe v. Wade, the most consequential high court ruling in decades, contained several striking lines that will resonate for decades to come. Here are key lines from the opinion:From Justices Clarence Thom...
The House select committee in particular zeroed in on the efforts of Rep. Scott Perry, the Pennsylvania Republican who connected Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark to the White House in December 2020. CNN has previously reported on the role that Perr...
On Thursday it was Alito's turn -- and in a case that he had won. In his concurrence in the gun case he took on the liberal dissent penned by Justice Stephen Breyer and joined by Sotomayor and Justice Elena Kagan. "Much of the dissent seems designed to obsc...
(CNN) Justice Clarence Thomas opened the floodgates for all sorts of gun safety laws to be challenged in federal court. Thomas changed the test courts are to use when analyzing the constitutionality of such regulations. The ruling will also likely prompt a...
What has been the pattern abroad in countries that ban abortion, along with United States' own experience before Roe, previews a complicated and unequal enforcement landscape. For years as they fought to overturn Roe v. Wade, leaders of the anti-abortion mo...
Tuesday's elections also set the matchups for several key House races in Virginia and Georgia. And in Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser won her Democratic primary and is now poised to win a third term. Here are four takeaways from Tuesday's primaries and...
an investigator with the committee asked McDaniel, according to video of her testimony played during the hearing. The Arizona House speaker also testified that Giuliani acknowledged what he was proposing had never been done before but continued to push him...
"In just a few years," Sotomayor remarked Tuesday as the liberals found themselves on the losing end of a case that could bolster state funding for religious schools, the court "has upended constitutional doctrine." "With growing concern for where this Cour...
(CNN) The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol turns its attention Tuesday to the campaign to pressure state-level officials to overturn the 2020 election results. Committee aides said the hearing will also demo...
(Photo by Chet Strange/Getty Images)Activists with The Center for Popular Democracy Action hold photos of U.S. Supreme Court justices as they block an intersection during a demonstration in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on December 01, 2021 in Washington,...
To get it in your inbox, sign up for free hereThat's how Sen. John Cornyn, the lead Republican negotiator on the bipartisan gun safety package , described last week's deliberations. Funding for red flag laws and what to do about the "boyfriend loophole." Bo...
(CNN) The US Space Force has hit a critical milestone: dedicated basic training for its early recruits. As dawn breaks on Day 38 of basic training at Joint Base San Antonio, a bugle playing reveille blasts over the loudspeakers as a sergeant can be heard sc...
(CNN) In the dog days of summer, Willow the cat rules the roost. On Friday, Willow's crate was spotted being carried by a staff member from the White House residence to Marine One, the presidential helicopter that will ferry the feline -- along with Preside...
CNN —The Supreme Court gave women nationwide the right to obtain an abortion nearly 50 years ago, and now it is poised to take it away. Abortion was outlawed in every US state between the late 19th and early 20th centuries as doctors organized against it, s...
Washington (CNN) Three months into US-led sanctions designed to crush Russia's economy for its war in Ukraine , Russia has appeared surprisingly resilient. But inside the Treasury Department, teams of sanctions experts view that resilience as a mirage. That...
The committee has now asked Ginni Thomas to speak about her efforts to reverse the election results. Ginni Thomas, a longtime conservative activist, has previously stressed that her work is separate from her husband's. On the 2020 election, however, their a...
Committee members argued that this shows Trump's corrupt intentions, and could lay the groundwork for a potential indictment. The point of highlighting this on Thursday was to lay the blame for the violence at Trump's feet. But over the last year and a half...
(CNN) Retired federal judge J. Michael Luttig, a Republican who is testifying at Thursday's January 6 committee hearing, will provide a sharp condemnation of former President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 election, saying Trump and his allies...
(CNN) The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack is in possession of email correspondence between conservative attorney John Eastman and Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, a conservative activist who's the wife of Supreme Court Ju...
The video, portions of which were released by the committee on Wednesday, appears to show a man taking photos of tunnels, hallways and staircases within the Capitol complex while on a tour led by Loudermilk. The committee also released footage that appears...