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Dueling lawsuits
Dueling lawsuits are headed for a showdown.
12 states filed suit against the FDA in Washington State on Friday, February 24, seeking removal of restrictions on access to mifepristone, the “abortion pill.”
Meanwhile, a federal judge in Texas is expected to issue an order soon in an anti-abortion case seeking to have mifepristone taken off the market entirely.
The Texas judge is a Trump appointee, poli Read more of this blog post »
12 states filed suit against the FDA in Washington State on Friday, February 24, seeking removal of restrictions on access to mifepristone, the “abortion pill.”
Meanwhile, a federal judge in Texas is expected to issue an order soon in an anti-abortion case seeking to have mifepristone taken off the market entirely.
The Texas judge is a Trump appointee, poli Read more of this blog post »
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This book is mesmerizing for anyone who cares deeply about what it took---and what it's still taking---for us to survive as a democracy in the United States. Women have been in the vanguard of the struggle for the rule of law and the application of f
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“In a society that consists of “a loose federation of groups with their own languages, customers, taboos, freedoms, courting habits and senses of morality...tolerance demands that no one group may be allowed to impose its own moral views, however strongly held, upon another; still less should they be able to use the severe sanctions of the criminal law to do so. The law...is at its best when it is enforcing practical remedies for specific crimes; it is at its worst when it tries to enforce the morality of one group in society upon another which may, for quite sincere and logical reasons, refuse to accept it.”
---Sir John Mortimer, British barrister and novelist”
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---Sir John Mortimer, British barrister and novelist”
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“In a society that consists of a loose federation of groups with their own languages, customers, taboos, freedoms, courting habits and senses of morality...tolerance demands that no one group may be allowed to impose its own moral views, however strongly held, upon another; still less should they be able to use the severe sanctions of the criminal law to do so. The law...is at its best when it is enforcing practical remedies for specific crimes; it is at its worst when it tries to enforce the morality of one group in society upon another which may, for quite sincere and logical reasons, refuse to accept it.”
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“My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.”
― The Taming of the Shrew
― The Taming of the Shrew
“I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.”
― The Story of My Childhood
― The Story of My Childhood
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