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☆ Supreme Court Faces Fresh Deadline on Access to Abortion Pill Mifepristone
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Laura Kusisto | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Photo Illustration: Preston JesseeThe Supreme Court faces another deadline Friday to decide whether to preserve access to a widely used abortion pill while a legal battle over its approval continues. The high court on Wednesday extended by two days a temporary stay allowing sales of the pill mifepristone to continue while it weighs whether to block lower-court orders that would impose significant new limits on the drug. Those restrictions are set to go into effect at the end of the day on Friday absent Supreme Court intervention.

☆ Supreme Court Faces Fresh Deadline in Abortion-Pill Case
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Laura Kusisto | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Supreme Court Allows Abortion Pill Mifepristone to Stay on the Market
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Laura Kusisto | Jess Bravin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Photo Illustration: Preston JesseeWASHINGTON—The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the widely used abortion pill mifepristone to remain on the market indefinitely, granting emergency requests from the Biden administration and the brand-name manufacturer of the drug. The high court blocked the effect of lower-court orders that would have limited access to the pill, which is used in more than half of U.S. abortions. The Supreme Court’s action wasn’t a decision on the merits of the case; instead, the justices were deciding whether the pill could remain available during a continuing legal challenge brought by antiabortion groups.

☆ Supreme Court Rules Abortion Pill Mifepristone Can Stay on the Market
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Laura Kusisto | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Photo Illustration: Preston JesseeWASHINGTON—The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the widely used abortion pill mifepristone to remain on the market indefinitely, granting emergency requests from the Biden administration and the brand-name manufacturer of the drug. The high court blocked the effect of a lower-court order that was poised to limit access to the pill, which is used in more than half of U.S. abortions. The Supreme Court’s action was not a decision on the merits of the case; instead, the justices were deciding whether the pill could remain available during an ongoing legal challenge brought by antiabortion groups.

☆ A Supreme Court justice resigned 54 years ago over conduct that may 'pale in comparison' to Clarence Thomas' — but Thomas is almost certain to get off scot-free thanks in part to the 'Trump effect'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigned in 1969 over accusations of financial misconduct. But unlike Fortas, Thomas is unlikely to experience severe consequences in the post-Trump era. Like Fortas, Thomas has been accused of financial misconduct. Democratic lawmakers have called for an investigation into Thomas, and the Senate Judiciary Committee has said it will hold a hearing on Supreme Court ethics. "He will forever be remembered as the second Abe Fortas," Kalir said.

☆ Starship Launch: Here Are the Challenges Elon Musk’s SpaceX Faces
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Abortion Access: Where It Stands Almost One Year After Dobbs Decision From a high-stakes legal battle over an abortion medication, to states debating their own abortion legislation, WSJ’s Laura Kusisto highlights how abortion access has changed since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and what could come next. Photo Illustration: Preston Jessee

☆ Fact Check-Kansas trans sports bill does not authorize ‘genital inspections of children’
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Reuters reported on March 9 (here) that the Kansas Republican legislature passed a bill banning transgender athletes from competing in female school sports if they were born male. The bill banned transgender girls and women from female sports teams in public elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, and colleges, and from private school teams that compete against public schools. Bill HB 2238 (here) restricts “participation on women’s teams to female students” and provides a basis for legal action if the act is violated. Nothing in the bill specifies how the biological sex of the students is to be determined. The Kansas bill HB 2238 does not contain any reference to genital inspections of student athletes, nor does it specify how state education groups should implement the new law restricting participation in girls’ sports teams.

☆ Supreme Court Action Expected in Abortion-Pill Case
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Laura Kusisto | Jess Bravin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Photo illustration: Ryan TrefesWASHINGTON—The Supreme Court is expected to issue an order as soon as Wednesday that could determine the availability of the widely used abortion pill mifepristone for at least the next several months. The justices are considering emergency appeals from the Biden administration and Danco Laboratories LLC, the brand-name manufacturer of the pill, to keep the drug on the market during ongoing litigation over its approval more than 20 years ago by the Food and Drug Administration. Antiabortion groups filed a lawsuit in November challenging the original approval and more recent regulations that made the pill, which is used in more than half of abortions, easier to obtain.

Photo Illustration: Preston JesseeWASHINGTON—The Supreme Court allowed the widely used abortion pill mifepristone to remain on the market through Friday, while the justices continue to weigh whether to block a lower-court order that would limit access to the drug. The extension came in a pair of brief orders issued Wednesday by Justice Samuel Alito , who oversees emergency matters for the courts in Texas, where a lawsuit contesting the pill’s approval originated.

☆ Gov. Ron DeSantis Signs Florida Six-Week Abortion Ban
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Laura Kusisto | Arian Campo-Flores | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis late Thursday signed into law a bill banning abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, a strict measure that could earn him support from Republican primary voters if he runs for president but that also carries political risks among the broader electorate. The legislation was a priority this session for the state’s Republican-led legislature, and political observers think it could boost Mr. DeSantis’s prospects in a presidential primary. Antiabortion leaders said it would also help assuage concerns that Mr. DeSantis has lagged behind some other Republicans nationally in fighting for restrictions on abortion.

☆ Supreme Court Lets Abortion Pill Remain on Market, for Now
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Jess Bravin | Laura Kusisto | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court temporarily blocked lower court orders that would limit access to the abortion drug mifepristone beginning Saturday, preserving current availability while it weighs the Biden administration’s emergency request to leave current Food and Drug Administration approvals in place during an ongoing legal battle with antiabortion groups. In a pair of orders, Justice Samuel Alito , who oversees emergency matters for the lower courts that limited or suspended approval of the widely used abortion pill, gave the antiabortion groups until noon Tuesday to file briefs in response to appeals filed on Friday by the FDA and Danco Laboratories LLC, which makes the branded version Mifeprex.

☆ Appeals Court Allows Abortion Pill to Remain on Market With Restrictions
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Laura Kusisto | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Justice Department to Appeal to Supreme Court on Abortion Pill
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Laura Kusisto | Liz Essley Whyte | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A fast-moving legal battle over the abortion pill is heading to the Supreme Court after a federal appeals court allowed the drug to remain on the market but imposed significant restrictions on its use. The order issued by the New Orleans-based Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals late Wednesday in effect returns restrictions on the drug, known as mifepristone, to what they were before 2016, when the pill could only be used through about seven weeks of pregnancy, required three in-person doctor’s visits and couldn’t be sent to patients through the mail.

☆ Apollo Doubles Down on Portfolio-Company Spending With Diverse Suppliers
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Laura Kreutzer | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Biden Administration Asks Appeals Court to Halt Abortion-Pill Ruling
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-10 | by ( Laura Kusisto | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Here's the 13-page pitch deck Stratyfy, a fintech using AI to help lenders work with the underbanked, used to raise $10 million
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-10 | by ( Bianca Chan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Stratyfy uses AI to help lenders extend more credit to underbanked communities. Here's the 13-page pitch deck Stratyfy used to raise its so-called "institutional seed." Stratyfy works to help lenders eliminate biasStratyfy uses machine-learning algorithms to help lenders remove sharp cutoffs — like those based on credit history lengths or current income — that are often used in their credit decisioning. The core engine uses a lender's traditional credit data, in addition to alternative data, to offer a breakdown of factors in a given borrower's profile. Here's the pitch deck Stratyfy used to raise $10 million.

☆ Texas Abortion-Pill Ruling Ignites New National Battle
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-09 | by ( Laura Kusisto | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Photo: Michael Noble Jr. for The Wall Street JournalMifepristone is sold under the brand name Mifeprex and in a generic version. A ruling by a Texas judge suspending approval of the abortion pill sets off a new national fight over women’s access to abortion less than a year after the Supreme Court withdrew constitutional protections for the procedure. In a 67-page ruling on Friday, U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Trump appointee who sits in Amarillo, said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration made a series of legal errors in approving the pill, known as mifepristone, for sale. He delayed the impact of his decision for a week while the Biden administration appeals and seeks an emergency stay.

☆ Abortion-Pill Approval Suspended by Federal Judge in Texas
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-07 | by ( Laura Kusisto | Liz Essley Whyte | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A federal judge on Friday suspended approval of the abortion pill, in a preliminary ruling against the Food and Drug Administration that could limit women’s access to the most common method for ending a pregnancy. U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of Amarillo, Texas, said in a 67-page ruling that the FDA made a series of legal errors in approving the pill for sale in the U.S. The judge suspended approval of the pill but delayed the impact of his decision for a week to give the Biden administration a chance to appeal.

[1/2] A sign urging voters to reject a state constitutional amendment declaring there is no right to abortion is seen during the primary election and abortion referendum at a Wyandotte County polling station in Kansas City, Kansas, U.S. August 2, 2022. Opponents say the bill undermines the will of Kansas voters who in an August statewide referendum rejected by nearly 60% a state constitutional amendment that would have declared there was no right to abortion. A similar bill failed in Kansas in 2019 after its Republican supporters narrowly failed to get the two-thirds majority needed to overcome Kelly's veto in the state House. The Kansas legislature earlier this week approved a bill creating new punishments for doctors accused of not providing sufficient care to infants that are delivered alive during an abortion. The bill has veto-proof majorities in both houses, but it could still be challenged and overturned in court.

☆ Wisconsin Supreme Court Election Shows Abortion Continues to Sway Voters
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( Laura Kusisto | Shannon Najmabadi | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Judge Janet Protasiewicz touted her support for reproductive rights during the campaign. For the first time in recent memory, liberals have gained a majority of seats on Wisconsin’s highest court, the latest in a string of electoral victories for Democrats in politically mixed states in which abortion rights have played a central role. Judge Janet Protasiewicz, a candidate with strong backing from the Democratic Party who openly touted her support for reproductive rights, won the seat in a swing state by 11 percentage points in Tuesday’s vote. It was the most expensive state supreme court race in U.S. history, in which money poured in from wealthy donors and national groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union and Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America.

☆ Wisconsin Voters to Decide on State Supreme Court Swing Seat Tuesday
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Ben Kesling | Laura Kusisto | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Elections for the seven-member Wisconsin Supreme Court, located in the State Capitol in Madison, have attracted an unusual amount of attention from national groups. Wisconsin voters head to the polls Tuesday in a high-stakes election for a swing seat on the state’s supreme court that has become the most expensive such judicial contest in U.S. history, demonstrating how state courts have become the focus of increasingly partisan politics. The candidates in the technically-nonpartisan race, which will affect control of the legislature and abortion law in Wisconsin, are Judge Janet Protasiewicz and Daniel Kelly . Judge Protasiewicz currently serves on a lower court and is heavily backed by the Democratic Party. Mr. Kelly was appointed to fill a vacancy on the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 2016 but lost an election in 2020 to retain his seat and has worked as a lawyer for the Republican Party in the time since he left the bench.

☆ Janet Protasiewicz, Backed by Democrats, Wins Crucial Swing Seat on Wisconsin Supreme Court
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Ben Kesling | Laura Kusisto | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Wisconsin voters elected Judge Janet Protasiewicz as the new state Supreme Court justice after a contentious election for the critical swing seat, setting the stage for challenges to the state’s 1849 law banning most abortions and a potential redrawing of its current electoral maps. The race was the most expensive such judicial contest in U.S. history, demonstrating how state courts have become the focus of increasingly partisan politics. Judge Protasiewicz currently serves on a lower court and was heavily backed by the Democratic Party. Her opponent, Daniel Kelly, was appointed to fill a vacancy on the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 2016 but lost an election in 2020 to retain his seat and has worked as a lawyer for the Republican Party in the time since he left the bench.

☆ British interior minister Braverman says Rwanda is safe for migrants
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-02 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

LONDON, April 2 (Reuters) - Britain's interior minister Suella Braverman said she was convinced Rwanda was a safe country to resettle migrants who had arrived in Britain illegally but she declined to set any deadline for the first deportations to the country. London's High court ruled in December the scheme was legal, but opponents are seeking to appeal that ruling. "The High Court - senior expert judges - have looked into the detail of our arrangement with Rwanda and found it to be a safe country and found our arrangements to be lawful." Braverman, who visited Rwanda last month, would not give a deadline for the first flight to depart. "We had a very strong victory in the High Court at the end of last year on Rwanda.

☆ Idaho Legislature Votes to Restrict Abortion Travel by Minors
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-01 | by ( Laura Kusisto | Jennifer Calfas | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The Idaho state flag hangs in the Idaho State capitol in Boise. Idaho’s legislature this week passed a bill making it a crime to assist minors in traveling to obtain an abortion, a novel attempt by a Republican-led state to restrain residents from seeking the procedure in states where it is legal. The bill creates a new offense of “abortion trafficking,” punishable by two to five years in prison. It would apply in circumstances in which a minor seeking an abortion didn’t have parental consent to do so.

AMARILLO, Texas—A federal judge is set to hear arguments Wednesday on whether to block sales of a medication used in more than half of the abortions in the U.S., the first public hearing in a case that has drawn national attention. Antiabortion medical groups and individual physicians filed a lawsuit in November, arguing that the Food and Drug Administration exceeded its authority when it approved the sale of the abortion-inducing pill known as mifepristone under a process meant for treatments of serious or life-threatening illnesses. The judge is now weighing whether to issue a preliminary injunction blocking sales of the pill while litigation continues.

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