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Supreme Court Chips Away at Women's Right to Choose
In a 5-4 decision, The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the 2003 Partial Birth Abortion Act, beginning the eventual complete gutting of Roe vs. (April 19, 2007)

Supreme Court Rules EPA Can Regulate Auto Emissions
The Supreme Court dealt a blow to the Bush White House today by ruling that the EPA does have the authority to regulate auto emissions. (April 2, 2007)

The Alito Hearings: Day Two
Day Two of the Alito confirmation hearings was a little more exciting than Day One. (January 11, 2006)

Alito Reveals His Personal Thought On Abortion
Well, that didn't take long. (November 15, 2005)

Bush Nominates Alito For Supreme Court
Today, President Bush announced his next Supreme Court nomination, just days after Harriet Miers was forced to resign by the religious right. (October 31, 2005)

Goodbye to Harriet Miers
Harriet Miers has withdrawn from her nomination to be the next Supreme Court Justice. (October 27, 2005)

Harriet and George: The Correspondence
The Smoking Gun has made available for your viewing pleasure the various notes written between Harriet Miers and George Bush when Bush was Governor of Texas. (October 13, 2005)

James Dobson's Strange Explanation
Karl Rove's kidney stones and possible impending indictment continue to take a toll on President Bush' ability to spin situations favorably. (October 12, 2005)

The Mystery of Harriet Miers
Time magazine leads with a piece on Harriet Miers about the two knocks against her and how she's going to be confirmed anyway. (October 10, 2005)

Miers' Aide Says She's Extremely Anti-Choice
Well, that didn't take long. (October 4, 2005)

Harriet Miers Gets Her Chance
President Bush got this week's news cycle started by nominating Harriet Meirs, his personal counsel, to be the next Supreme Court justice. (October 3, 2005)

O'Connor Says She'll Delay Retirement if Asked
Despite the pledge to vote no on confirming John Roberts by several prominent Democrats, including Harry Reid and John Kerry, Roberts looks poised to be the next Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. (September 21, 2005)

Advantage Roberts After Day Two of Questioning
In his second day of questioning by the Senate Juciciary Committee members, John Roberts evaded, avoided and dodged all attempts by senators to pin him down on whether he thinks the right to privacy includes a woman's right to have an abortion. (September 14, 2005)

Dianne Feinstein Remembers Her Roots
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) is the only woman on the Judiciary Committee which is currently questioning John Roberts as to his fitness to be the youngest Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in 200 years. (September 13, 2005)

John Roberts and the Amazing Promotion
Well, that certainly didn't take long. (September 6, 2005)

NARAL, John Roberts and the Road to Confirmation
After NARAL got the smackdown over its aggressive anti-Roberts ad, it looked like women's rights groups were going to run crying home to hide during the confirmation hearings. (August 28, 2005)

Bush Nominates John Roberts for Supreme Court Justice
It has not been a good week for women. (July 20, 2005)

Rehnquist Dodges the Press
All the buzz yesterday was that Rehnquist was going to announce his retirement from the Supreme Court. (July 9, 2005)