Getting 'Roe' Wrong

To call The Fall of Roe hugely disappointing is an understatement. Coauthors Elizabeth Dias and Lisa Lerer, both national correspondents for the New York Times, state that they interviewed some 350 people while writing this book, but oddly not a single one of those sources is explicitly identified. A disciplined reader can easily make out that a host of pro-choice organizational leaders are clearly among the authors' top sources, and with painstaking quote-checking one can surprisingly confirm that leading anti-abortion figures like Marjorie Dannenfelser and Leonard Leo also spoke extensively to Dias and Lerer.

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Top Transgender Health Group Said Hormones, Surgeries Were 'Medically Necessary' So That Insurance Would Cover Them, Documents Show

The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) asserted that cross-sex hormones and surgeries were "medically necessary" so that insurance companies would pay for those procedures, allowing concerns about the treatments' affordability to dictate claims about their effectiveness, newly unsealed court documents show.

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American Muslims for Palestine Ordered To Turn Over Potentially Damaging Donor Documents in Virginia Terror Financing Probe

RICHMOND, Va.— A Virginia judge on Tuesday ordered American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), a prominent anti-Israel advocacy group, to disclose its funding channels as part of an investigation by Republican attorney general Jason Miyares into allegations of terrorism financing.

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Biden Judicial Nominee Sent Trans Male Rapist to Female Prison, Arguing Safety Concerns Were Overblown. Now, Sources Say He is Exposing Himself to Inmates.

A judge nominated by President Joe Biden to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Sarah Netburn, is facing questions from lawmakers after recommending that a transgender, twice-convicted male sex offender be placed in a female prison.

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Biden Judicial Nominee Said Child Predator Had 'a Lot of Good in Him'

One of President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees suspended a child sex predator’s sentence and said the convict had "a lot of good in him" during a court hearing last year.

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Yet Another Biden Judicial Pick Has Ties to a Left-Wing, Anti-Cop Group

At a Senate hearing Wednesday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) introduced Biden judicial nominee Brian Murphy as a "staunch and committed advocate" for fairness in the criminal justice system. Murphy's advocacy includes work for a legal group that urges judges to base prison sentences on "structural racism" and backed a bail fund that freed a rapist who committed another rape weeks after his release from jail.

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Trump Goes to Trial in Hush Money Case as Legal Experts Voice Skepticism Over the Merits

Former president Donald Trump is scheduled to appear at a Manhattan courthouse on Monday as the trial over payments sent from the Trump Organization to porn star Stormy Daniels gets underway. The case will center on Trump’s culpability for the alleged falsification of Trump Organization business records, but legal experts are voicing skepticism over the […]

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Activists Want Energy Companies To Pay Climate Damages. That Could Imperil US National Security, Former Joint Chiefs Say.

Oil and gasoline products remain "critical to national security," two former chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a legal brief, weighing in on a closely watched court case in Hawaii that has activists calling on America's top energy companies to pay damages for contributions to climate change.

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Biden DOJ Slow-Walks 'Slam Dunk' Case Against Man Who Allegedly Tried To Kill Justice Kavanaugh, Baffling Experts

President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice is dragging its feet in prosecuting Nicholas Roske, the man accused of trying to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, leaving legal experts perplexed about the slow-moving pace of the case. Roske was indicted for attempted murder of a Supreme Court justice nearly two years ago in June 2022, […]

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Biden Judicial Nominee Leads Left-Wing Group that Wants to Defund Police

President Joe Biden’s pick for a top judicial post leads an activist group that has called to defund police departments and aims to "transform" the criminal justice system.

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