The Volunteer State wants an en banc appeals court to reinstate a law that requires a woman to wait 48 hours before she can get an abortion, arguing similar restrictions in other states have been upheld as constitutional.
Demonstrators on both sides of the abortion issue gather outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington during the March for Life in January 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
CINCINNATI (CN) In arguments before the entire Sixth Circuit on Wednesday, Tennessee cited U.S. Supreme Court precedent and claimed its mandatory waiting period for abortions should not have been struck down by a federal judge.
A federal appellate court on Thursday invalidated the racial and gender preferences in President Biden's $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act as unconstitutional. The Cincinnati-based Sixth Circuit of Appeals ruled that provisions of that law,.
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decided that showing favoritism to small restaurants based on the ethnicity of their owners violates the 14th Amendment.