This is a big win for abortion rights advocates, and notably its coming at the hands of the chief justice in this case who voted with the liberals to block this louisiana abortion law. This is significant for many reasons, probably the biggest of which being that the chief justice before this morning had never voted to strike down an abortion restriction, but in this case he has. The chief justice really in a sense saying that his hands were tied here because of a similar case in 2016 involving a similar texas law that the Supreme Court in that case said was unconstitutional. In that case though it was anthony kennedy, the now retired justice who sided with the liberals to strike down that texas law. The chief Justice John Roberts in that case actually vigorously dissented, but here he said that because of that precedent he had to side with the liberals. He said that the burden on access to abortion was just as severe as the texas law in 2016 that this court struck down. You know, howe
When the Alabama State Department of Education (ASDE) released this year’s preliminary ACAP (Alabama Comprehensive Assessment Program) results, Caldwell Elementary School Principal Zac Holt was ecstatic with the reading results
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