Even as his beliefs on abortion shaped global policy, he was never entirely at peace with the issue.
The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas wrote to legislators in a crucial swing state after the Trump campaign’s loss in 2020.
Moscow may label the Azov fighters who defended the Mariupol steel plant as terrorists — raising the prospect of a high-profile trial. The Kremlin has a long tradition of using the courts for political goals.
Roe v. Wade was never expected to be the case that made history.
The scholar Kate Greasley examines ethical quandaries around life, personhood and bodily autonomy.
Standard political history may not be a good guide to 2022.
Estados Unidos debe dejar de ocultar y maquillar su historia imperial.
Many soldiers who surrendered from Mariupol’s Azovstal steel plant belong to the Azov battalion, a group with far-right roots, and the Kremlin may now put them on trial just as Ukraine is prosecuting Russians for war crimes.
The request for federal employees to be granted time off to travel out of state for the procedure comes as large companies are starting to make accommodations in the area.
Social network companies want to block a Texas law that restricts content moderation.
The government’s order for hundreds of remaining fighters to stand down offers Russia a propaganda victory, but prospects for a prisoner swap seem unclear at best.
After years of work by feminist activists, Mexico now finds itself ahead of the United States when it comes to access to abortion.
The Texas senator challenged a federal law that put a $250,000 cap on repayments of candidates’ loans to their campaigns using postelection contributions.
In a memo on Monday, the company said it wanted to ensure that its employees had “access to quality health care.”
Get caught up on the latest news about reproductive rights and the birth control.
The slaughter in a Black neighborhood in Buffalo is in line with a series of racist massacres that shows no signs of abating.
A Supreme Court ruling and changes in college sports have given momentum to a lawsuit accusing the N.C.A.A. of violating federal minimum-wage laws by refusing to pay athletes like employees.
If Justice Thomas is genuinely concerned about the eroding faith in his own institution, the first thing he can do is look in the mirror.
Thousands of people gathered in New York City and across the country to show their support for abortion rights nearly two weeks after the leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade.
Gathering near the homes of public officials is not a new trend.
What’s God got to do with it?
In remarks at a conference in Dallas, he also denounced the recent protests at justices’ homes and said conservatives would not adopt such tactics.
The threat to Roe v. Wade presents Vice President Kamala Harris with an opportunity to recover from early political stumbles.
Readers discuss whether forced treatment is effective. Also: Republicans and abortion; Supreme Court decline; caution on Ukraine; disconnecting from social media.
If Roe v. Wade is overturned, more than half of American women of reproductive age will live closer to a crisis pregnancy center than to an abortion facility.
What’s the difference between a woman and a sea turtle? The Senate wants to know.
The disclosure of a draft opinion that would overrule Roe v. Wade, legal experts said, was evidence that the court is not much different from other Washington institutions.
Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.
The internal inquiry led by the court’s marshal has limited tools, but there are challenges to opening a criminal investigation.
In the leaked draft, Justice Samuel Alito made assertions about fetal development, abortion procedures and international laws that were disputed or omitted context.
What a reversal of Roe v. Wade might mean at the ballot box.
No one wages a generational battle to reshape American society for the sake of a partial victory.
Readers call for more openness and discuss judicial restraint and the justices’ religious beliefs. Also: Mask decisions; Twitter’s dark side; skipping school.
A novel Michigan lawsuit will attempt to continue to make abortion available.
In just a few short weeks, the fundamental right enshrined in Roe nearly 50 years ago could disappear overnight. What’s next? Is anything safe?
The leaked draft opinion that would eliminate the constitutional right to abortion sent mixed signals about what other precedents might be at risk.
“Now is not the time to brag or gloat or celebrate. Now is the time to get to work.”
No law or written code of conduct prescribes how an investigation into the leak of a draft opinion should proceed, or whether journalists will be swept into it.
Here’s how the Times report on the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion to overturn Roe v. Wade came together — and made it into print.
Why Roe v. Wade may be overturned by the very forces of polarization it unleashed.
The Supreme Court draft opinion signals a new era for the 50-year effort to end the constitutional right to abortion. Next goals include a national ban and, in some cases, classifying abortion as homicide.
Puritans are winning. Women are losing.
When Florida revoked Disney’s tax privileges, business leaders were shocked. Now, a Supreme Court leak has made some of them terrified of speaking out. More than a decade after the rise of the employee activist movement, corporate America faces tougher decisions.
How abortion became one of the most politically divisive issues of our time. (From 2018)
Many factors drove women into the work force in greater numbers in the 1970s. Scholars argue that abortion access was an important one.
If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, all 50 states will be free to set their own rules, leading to one America where access to an abortion is guaranteed and another where it is outlawed.
Americans are about to lose a constitutional right. It’s worth fighting for.
Readers raise questions about the constitutional reasoning and Catholic influence in the leaked draft ruling. Also: Preventing addiction; access to parks.
What next for a movement that looks to have achieved a decades-long goal?
The proposal threatens to prosecute women who end a pregnancy, a possible new frontier in the abortion debate as the Supreme Court appears inclined to overturn Roe v. Wade.
The legal reasoning that the Supreme Court’s conservative bloc is considering to end abortion rights could uproot a series of other past rulings that created modern rights.
Senator Ben Ray Luján’s recovery was “miraculous,” the New Mexico Democrat said in one of his first interviews since his health scare early this year.
Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.
Senator Chuck Schumer, the Democratic majority leader, said he planned to bring up a bill that would codify abortion rights into federal law, despite clear evidence that the measure lacks the support to be enacted.
He would erase the right to abortion without acknowledging the impact on women and on the constitutional understanding of sex equality.
Change takes time, and it starts when people come together in outrage.
The government delayed a decision on the proposal, amid concerns that a private charity might follow Catholic doctrine and limit abortions at a state-funded maternity hospital.
In announcing a Wednesday vote on doomed legislation to enshrine abortion rights into federal law, the top Senate Democrat teed up a political fight for the midterm campaign.
Alison Leiby had just performed her show “Oh God, a Show About Abortion” when she learned of the leaked draft opinion showing that the court could be on the verge of overturning Roe v. Wade.
Where in the United States would access to abortion be assured, and where would it be in jeopardy?
Women apparently have advanced so far, they no longer need guaranteed access to abortion.
Over the course of a half-century in national politics, President Biden has evolved from an outright critic of Roe to a seemingly reluctant and largely quiet supporter.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. have become emblems of a stark divide at the Supreme Court as it confronts whether to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Not since Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein refused for decades to disclose the identity of their Watergate source has Washington been as eager to unmask a leaker.
The leaked draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade also takes aim at its version of history, challenging decades of scholarship that argues abortion was not always a crime.
The E.U. proposed a total embargo.
A 22-year-old woman fears losing control over her body, and an 80-year-old recalls her illegal abortion. Also: Russian oligarchs’ property; Pelosi in Kyiv.
Jackson Women’s Health has seen an increase in patients, many from states like Texas and Louisiana that have restricted access to abortions.
La filtración de un borrador de la opinión de la Corte Suprema que revocaría el caso Roe contra Wade recuerda que nuestras vidas y nuestros cuerpos siguen sujetos al debate político.
More than a dozen states have implemented legislation that would outlaw or severely restrict abortions, on the assumption that the Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade this summer.
Even some harsh critics of Roe v. Wade see a court that reflects and amplifies the nation’s political divides.
Several states have already taken steps to protect abortion rights, and many are taking additional measures in anticipation of the Supreme Court ruling.
A leaked draft opinion from the Supreme Court suggested that it was preparing to overturn the constitutional right to abortion.
A conversation on the extraordinary Supreme Court leak that could forever change reproductive rights in America.
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. argued two basic points: The Constitution is silent on the question of abortion and Roe’s flaws make it unworthy of respect as precedent.
Exultant Republicans planned new bans. Democrats, who have struggled to rally around abortion rights, hoped a bruising Supreme Court loss could jolt their voters into action.
For half a century, right-wing legal thinkers have been working toward the moment foretold by a leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion.
With neither the 60 votes needed to break a filibuster of legislation to protect abortion rights nor the 50 votes to pass it, Senate Democrats said they would try anyway.
We can’t let this country become a hollow theocracy.
Abortion is in jeopardy in the U.S.
An abrupt and profound change to an established law is utterly destructive to respect for the law.
Armed with megaphones, signs, buttons and at least one letterpress for speedy poster production, groups supporting and opposing abortion rights demonstrated.
The coming nightmare of illegal abortion.
If the Supreme Court were to end Roe v. Wade, about half of states would be expected to ban abortion quickly or limit it heavily.
President Biden said the leaked draft of a Supreme Court ruling poised to reverse Roe v. Wade, if finalized, could undermine a range of rights beyond abortion, including same-sex marriage.
A leaked Roe v. Wade draft ruling could raise pressure on business leaders to take a stand.
The leak of a draft majority opinion overruling Roe v. Wade raises questions about motives, methods and whether defections are still possible.
The wording in the 98-page ruling by Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. could still change. As drafted, it shows a majority of the court voted to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Readers react to news of a leaked draft indicating a likely overturning of the landmark abortion rights decision.
Aquí tienes una breve historia sobre el caso emblemático que legalizó el aborto en Estados Unidos.
The publication knew it was onto something big. But first, its leaders had to host a prominent Washington event and say nothing.
A short history of the landmark case.
Roe v. Wade seems to be on the cusp of falling.
European countries have been moving toward more, not less, abortion access.
The court unanimously ruled that the city, which has approved many other requests to raise flags at its City Hall, violated a Christian group’s free speech rights.
When “religious freedom” gets complicated.
The justice urged his colleagues to revisit the Insular Cases, which denied full constitutional protection to unincorporated territories. A petition filed last week gives them a chance.
Ron DeSantis and others are desecrating what the G.O.P. long championed.
Elon Musk joined an amicus brief that could have big implications for how the S.E.C. brings cases and whether defendants who settle can ever talk about them.
Readers discuss whether a high school coach had the right to kneel and pray after games. Also: Genocide in Ukraine; Amazon’s response; Republican lies.
Splitting 6 to 3, the court ruled that facilities receiving federal money cannot be sued under four federal laws for discrimination that causes emotional distress.
The argument was Justice Stephen G. Breyer’s last, and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. ended it with a fond tribute to his colleague.
The justices’ decision could have broad implications for freedom of religion — and freedom from it.
The New-York Historical Society looks back on the landmark gender equality legislation and how it transformed women’s access to education, sports and more.
Known formally as the Migrant Protection Protocols, the program, adopted during the Trump administration, requires some migrants to wait in Mexico while their cases are heard.
A group including parents of Asian American students challenged the new criteria at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Virginia.
Members of the court’s conservative majority indicated that the coach, Joseph A. Kennedy, had a constitutional right to kneel and pray at the 50-yard line after games.
Mr. Reed was convicted of capital murder in the 1996 killing of a 19-year-old woman. He has challenged the constitutionality of a Texas DNA testing statute in an effort to prove his innocence.
A friend described the actions of Wynn Bruce, of Boulder, Colo., as “a deeply fearless act of compassion to bring attention to climate crisis.”
Joseph Kennedy, a football coach at a public high school in Washington State, lost his job after praying on the 50-yard line after games.
President Biden said he would nominate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. Here’s a quick look at her biography.
The retirement of Justice Stephen G. Breyer will give President Biden a chance to put a Black woman on the Supreme Court.
Here is the draft lawsuit that Michael P. Farris, chief executive of a group known as Alliance Defending Freedom, sent to the South Carolina attorney general, as he searched for a Republican state attorney general willing to file the lawsuit with the Supreme Court.
Closely divided opinions on health care, voting, religion and gay rights cases.
Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas just signed a bill that would ban most abortions in the state. Here’s what else to know.
Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation has tilted the high court's ideological balance. What should the court’s future be, and who gets to decide it?
Democrats from 2016 make their case against the Democrats of today.
Republicans from 2016 make their case against Republicans of today.
If you’d like to create your own shrine to this indefatigable woman of words, these books are the building blocks.
The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday left an opening on the Supreme Court 46 days before Election Day.
The public generally supports the politically liberal position in the cases, though Democrats and Republicans are deeply divided over several of them.
Reporters for The Times provided live analysis as the Supreme Court heard arguments about whether President Trump can block subpoenas to his accountants and bankers from Congress and New York prosecutors.
He called for protections for gay Americans because he was able to see the world from the perspective of others.
Conservatives seem to assume that only the chief justice is moved by fears that he and his colleagues will end up looking like politicians in robes.
The regulator’s record in the Supreme Court the past few years has not been strong. But the justices handed it a significant victory late last month.
Will the court be able to avoid mirroring the country’s polarization?