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The Supreme Court's decision will have a major impact in states across the country that have already signaled their intention to further restrict or ban abortion.
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Leaks of any kind are rare at the Supreme Court, but in 1973, the original Roe decision was leaked to the press before the court formally announced it. The chief justice was furious.
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The 1973 ruling has guaranteed the right to an abortion for nearly 50 years. Now the Supreme Court seems poised to overturn it, according to a leaked draft opinion published last night by Politico but not confirmed by NPR.
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President Biden, Vice President Harris and Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson are set to deliver remarks on the Senate's historic, bipartisan confirmation of Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court. Jackson will be the first Black woman to serve on the nation's highest court. Watch live at approximately 12:15 p.m. EST on Friday, April 8.
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The Senate is holding confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. Watch the hearings as they continue at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, March 23.
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On Dec. 1, the court will hear arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. The Mississippi case tests whether all state laws that ban pre-viability abortions are unconstitutional.
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Justice Thomas defended the Supreme Court's independence, arguing that despite disagreements about the court's role, "it works. It may work sort of like a car with three wheels, but it still works."
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The newest justice — picked by former President Donald Trump to fill the seat left open by Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death — said, "I think we need to evaluate what the court is doing on its own terms."
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"If the Democrats can do it, the Republicans can do it," Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer told NPR's Nina Totenberg.
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For more than a year, the Supreme Court has been conducting hearings via teleconference. But starting in October, the justices will be back on the bench.