U.S. Supreme Court

Restrictive abortion laws across the South mean more women are traveling across state lines to find safe services.

The high court will take up a legal battle about how much money Florida’s Medicaid program should be able to recoup from a legal settlement stemming from an accident that left a girl in a vegetative state.

By a 5-4 vote, the court left in place the nationwide moratorium on evictions put in place by the CDC that was challenged by the Alabama Association of Realtors.

The poll comes weeks after the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case involving a currently blocked Mississippi law that would ban abortions after 15 weeks.

Attorney General Ashley Moody says her office respects “the ruling and authority of the court” but defended her involvement in the suit, saying “my office will always push back on any federal overreach."

The 7-2 decision threw out the challenge to the law on grounds that Texas and other objecting GOP-dominated states were not required to pay anything under the mandate provision.

The state law bans most abortions after 15 weeks. The lower courts blocked its enforcement, finding it in conflict with Roe v. Wade and subsequent abortion decisions.

The case is the result of a change to the law made by Congress in 2017: reducing to zero the penalty for not having health insurance. But it was that penalty that the court ruled made the law constitutional in 2012.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to take up an appeal by a Broward County nursing home whose license was revoked after residents died following…

The opinion upheld a Trump administration rule that significantly cut back on the Affordable Care Act requirement that insurers provide free birth control coverage under almost all health care plans.