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Arguments heard in 2 abortion cases

Headline from Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, on the newest of 3 developments

WASHINGTON -- A majority of justices on the U.S. Supreme Court signaled Monday that they would allow abortion providers to pursue a court challenge to a Texas law that has virtually ended abortion after six weeks of pregnancy in the nation's second-largest state.

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  1. Texas, DOJ and Abortion Providers File Arguments as Abortion Ban Fight Nears Supreme Court

    Headline from NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth ·

  2. Supreme Court questions Texas law banning most abortions

    Headline from Fox5 Atlanta ·

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    Arguments heard in 2 abortion cases

    Headline from Arkansas Democrat-Gazette ·

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  1. NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

    Texas, DOJ and Abortion Providers File Arguments as Abortion Ban Fight Nears Supreme Court (opens NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth)

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    NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth's feed description

    The Biden administration and abortion-rights providers in separate briefs slammed the Texas law as unconstitutional and designed to avoid court review.

  2. Washington Times

    DOJ previews Supreme Court arguments against Texas abortion law (opens Washington Times)

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    Washington Times's feed description

    President Biden’s Justice Department argued in court papers Wednesday that the Supreme Court must allow Texas officials to be sued for banning abortions in the state after a fetal heartbeat is detected.

  3. CBS News

    Justice Department and Texas officials clash over abortion ban ahead of Supreme Court showdown (opens CBS News)

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    CBS News's feed description

    The Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday in two cases involving a Texas law that bans most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy.

  4. Fox News

    Supreme Court to hear first of two appeals on abortion rights, with arguments Monday over Texas' six-week ban (opens Fox News)

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    Fox News's feed description

    The U.S. Supreme Court will embark Monday on the first chapter of a legal saga over abortion that could see the nationwide right to the procedure sharply limited in coming months

  5. Politico

    5 questions when the Supreme Court takes up the Texas abortion law (opens Politico)

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    Politico's feed description

    Though the Court split 5-4 in declining to block the unique ban before it took effect in September, the justices now have before them evidence of the sweeping impact it’s had on the ground.

  6. Newsweek

    Abortion rights in the balance as Supreme Court hears challenges to Texas ban (opens Newsweek)

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    Newsweek's feed description

    Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has argued that the federal government does not have the right to sue over the law.

  7. Fox News

    Abortion backers at Supreme Court are aiming for Roe v. Wade 'Part 2' in Texas, Stephen Miller warns (opens Fox News)

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    Fox News's feed description

    The Supreme Court will hear arguments in two pivotal abortion cases regarding the landmark Texas law S.B. 8 on Monday. A lawyer and a former advisor to President Trump, working with America First Legal, argued that the cases center on the question of whether or not Texans have the democratic right t…

  8. France 24

    US Supreme Court to hear Texas abortion law case (opens France 24)

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    France 24's feed description

    Two months after refusing to intervene, the US Supreme Court is to hear challenges on Monday to a Texas law that bans abortions after six weeks of pregnancy and makes no exceptions for rape or incest…

  9. Voice of America

    Texans Unsure of New Abortion Law as Supreme Court Prepares to Hear Arguments (opens Voice of America)

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    Voice of America's feed description

    Monday’s hearings could open one of the most important months for abortion-related legislation at the Supreme Court in 50 years

  10. CNN

    Eyes on Roberts, Kavanaugh and Barrett as SCOTUS considers Texas' abortion ban (opens CNN)

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    CNN's feed description

    Since the challenge to a Texas abortion ban first reached the Supreme Court two months ago, the justices have conferred only in private over the law that flouts nearly a half century of abortion-rights rulings.

  11. Towleroad Gay News

    US Supreme Court Hears Texas Abortion Law Case (opens Towleroad Gay News)

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    Towleroad Gay News's feed description

    Washington (AFP) - The conservative-majority US Supreme Court hears challenges on Monday to the most restrictive law passed since abortion was made a

  12. The Daily Nonpareil

    Supreme Court questions Texas law banning most abortions (opens The Daily Nonpareil)

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    The Daily Nonpareil's feed description

    WASHINGTON (AP) — A majority of the Supreme Court signaled Monday they would allow abortion providers to pursue a court challenge to a Texas law that has virtually ended abortion

  13. Washington Examiner

    Supreme Court set to hear challenges to Texas law banning abortion after six weeks (opens Washington Examiner)

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    Washington Examiner's feed description

    The Supreme Court will hear twin challenges to a controversial Texas law prohibiting abortion after six weeks gestation unless a woman’s life is in danger.

  14. WNYT Albany

    Supreme Court takes up Texas law banning most abortions (opens WNYT Albany)

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    Fredericksburg.com's feed description

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking up challenges to a Texas law that has virtually ended abortion in the nation’s second-largest state after six weeks of pregnancy, with

  15. New York Times

    Live Updates: Supreme Court to Hear Oral Arguments on Texas Abortion Law (opens New York Times)

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    New York Times's feed description

    The Supreme Court is set to hear two challenges to the restrictive law, which bars most abortions in the state after about six weeks of pregnancy. The audio of the arguments will be streamed live starting at 10 a.m. Eastern.

  16. Washington Post

    Supreme Court seems willing to allow challenge of Texas’s restrictive abortion law (opens Washington Post)

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    Washington Post's feed description

    Justices Brett M. Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett — who were part of the court’s five-justice majority that allowed the law to take effect Sept. 1 — appeared more swayed by arguments that the law improperly blocked the judicial review necessary when constitutional rights are at stake.

  17. ABC 17 Mid-Missouri

    Two conservative Supreme Court justices appear open to abortion providers being able to challenge Texas law (opens ABC 17 Mid-Missouri)

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    ABC 17 Mid-Missouri's feed description

    By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Two key conservative justices seemed open to arguments from abortion providers that they should be able to challenge a Texas abortion six-week ban in federal court as the Supreme Court grappled with the issue for nearly three hours on Monday.

  18. Forbes

    Texas Abortion Law: Conservative Supreme Court Justices Signal Willingness To Rule Against SB 8 (opens Forbes)

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    Forbes's feed description

    The court is considering two cases concerning the Texas law Monday, one brought by abortion providers and the other by the Biden administration.

  19. The Washington Free Beacon

    Supreme Court Could Clear Path for Challenge to Texas Abortion Law (opens The Washington Free Beacon)

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    The Washington Free Beacon's feed description

    The Supreme Court seemed ready on Monday to let abortion providers in Texas proceed with a legal challenge to the Texas Heartbeat Act.

  20. WTOL Toledo

    Supreme Court focuses on Texas law that bans most abortions (opens WTOL Toledo)

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    WTOL Toledo's feed description

    The justices are hearing arguments Monday in two cases over whether abortion providers, or the Justice Department, can mount federal court challenges to the law.

  21. NPR

    Supreme Court justices seem inclined to side with abortion providers in Texas (opens NPR)

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    NPR's feed description

    In more than three hours of arguments, the court heard challenges from the U.S. Justice Department and abortion providers over the controversial law that has the effect of banning most abortions.

  22. NBC Los Angeles

    Supreme Court to Hear Challenges to Texas Abortion Law Monday (opens NBC Los Angeles)

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    NBC Los Angeles's feed description

    The court has taken up a pair of challenges to the law with unusual speed.

  23. Newsweek

    Kavanaugh asks if Texas abortion law could be model for bans on gun rights, free speech (opens Newsweek)

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    Newsweek's feed description

    U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar told the Supreme Court Monday that "no constitutional right is safe" if the Texas law is allowed to stand.

  24. Washington Examiner

    Advocates and opponents of Texas abortion law clash in Supreme Court hearing (opens Washington Examiner)

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    Washington Examiner's feed description

    The Supreme Court on Monday heard arguments from challengers to a Texas law that prohibits abortion after six weeks of gestation, one of two cases justices are considering that could overturn 48 years of precedent on the issue.

  25. CBS News

    Listen Live: Supreme Court hears arguments in fast-tracked Texas abortion ban cases (opens CBS News)

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    CBS News's feed description

    Arguments in the cases involving the Texas law are taking place one month before the Supreme Court hears a dispute over Mississippi's 15-week abortion ban.

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