Iowa’s six-week abortion ban is set to take effect on Monday morning, changing the map of abortion access in the Midwest and giving Republicans in the state a long-sought policy victory. Since the Iowa Supreme Court ruled 4-to-3 last month that the ban could be enforced, it had mostly been a matter of when, not if, the law would take effect. Last week, a state district judge said an injunction blocking enforcement of the ban would be dissolved at 8 a.m. local time on Monday. Until then,...

President Joe Biden has outlined his vision for reforming the U.S. Supreme Court in an opinion piece for the Washington Post. Biden's "three bold reforms" include ensuring former presidents have no immunity for crimes committed while in office, term limits for Supreme Court justices, and a binding code of conduct for the court. The president said that the proposed changes aim to restore public trust in the court and ensure accountability. Biden cited the...

Why we should limit the terms of Supreme Court justices. On Monday, President Joe Biden will resurface from his White House exile to unveil his plan to reshape the Supreme Court. The details aren’t known, but one of the items is likely to be a good idea: term limits for Supreme Court justices. No doubt, several of Biden’s proposals will be rooted in his displeasure with the Court’s recent rulings on federal abortion rights, affirmative action in higher education, and gun regulations...

This nation was founded on a simple yet profound principle: No one is above the law. Not the president of the United States. Not a justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. No one. But the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision on July 1 to grant presidents broad immunity from prosecution for crimes they commit in office means there are virtually no limits on what a president can do. The only limits will be those that are self-imposed by the person occupying the Oval Office. If a...

While a vice presidential pick rarely has a big effect on a presidential candidate, the process of picking one is intense, highly selective, and well-documented. From creating an initial list to vetting candidates for the national stage, many moving factors go into picking a right-hand man or woman. For Vice President Kamala Harris, the de facto Democratic presidential nominee after President Joe Biden announced he would not be seeking reelection, the...

Behind the public jubilation over Vice President Harris’s swift rise to become their party’s likely nominee for president, Democratic lawmakers are privately anxious about her prospects of defeating former President Trump, acknowledging that she is largely untested as a candidate and faces serious challenges. The anxiety, for the most part, has been set aside out of a deep sense of relief that President Biden decided to drop his reelection bid. After months of unease over the 81-...

Venezuela’s authoritarian leader, Nicolás Maduro, was declared the winner of the country’s tumultuous presidential election early Monday, despite enormous momentum from an opposition movement that had been convinced this was the year it would oust Mr. Maduro’s socialist-inspired party. The vote was riddled with irregularities, and citizens were angrily protesting the government’s actions at voting centers even as the results were announced. With 80 percent of voting stations counted, the...

Fortunately, the plane’s captain, Christine, came out from the cockpit and personally took Giorgio’s dress to store upfront. Source: Pilot Buckles Up Bride’s Wedding Dress in Cockpit: ‘She Was Looking Out for Another Woman Nice.

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