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April 26, 2024
Susan Rinkunas
Sam Alito Thinks We’re All Stupid
The justice snapped that “nobody’s suggesting” pregnant women don’t deserve medical care in E.R.s. Actually, lots of people would put the fetus before her.
April 17, 2024
Melissa Gira Grant
The Supreme Court Has Ruled, and Idaho’s Trans Teens Will Suffer
What may seem like a temporary, narrow ruling on Idaho’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors will have lasting repercussions.
April 10, 2024
Melissa Gira Grant
Republicans Are Running Scared From Their Own Abortion Positions
145 Republicans in Congress say they want to enforce the 151-year-old law. We asked a handful of them about the consequences. None replied.
March 28, 2024
Melissa Gira Grant
The Telling Backstory of One Doctor-Plaintiff in the Mifepristone Case
Tyler Johnson used his position as state senator to try to get a serious malpractice suit sealed, and has a long history of trying to ban health care he disapproves of.
March 26, 2024
Tori Otten
Anti-Choice Lawyer Makes Huge Slip-Up in SCOTUS Abortion Pill Case
The lawyer arguing against the abortion pill at the Supreme Court made a slip of the tongue that revealed how flimsy the entire case really is.
March 7, 2024
Melissa Gira Grant
Who Exactly Is Behind the Supreme Court’s Big Mifepristone Case?
The Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine claims to be an organization of doctors worried about mifepristone. The paper trail is more ambiguous.
February 20, 2024
Melissa Gira Grant
The Zombie Law Trump Wants to Use to Ban Abortion Nationwide
Members of the former president’s inner circle are worried that he’ll blab about their plan to gut what remains of our reproductive freedoms.
February 14, 2024
Zane McNeill
The Supreme Court Ruling the Right Is Using to Eradicate Transgender People
The high court’s infamous abortion decision is now being wielded against gender-affirming care—in the first of many attacks on our rights to come.
July 25, 2023
Melissa Gira Grant
A Real Wedding Website in a Fake Gay Wedding Website Case
An archive shows that the plaintiff in the Supreme Court case did once design a wedding website, contrary to what her lawyers presented during her legal challenge.
July 6, 2023
Melissa Gira Grant
The Straight Man in the Gay Wedding Website Case Is Not the Real Problem
The Christian group behind the Supreme Court wedding website case would rather stoke controversy about the fake inquiry than have us look at how its own story has changed.
June 28, 2023
Melissa Gira Grant
The Christian Right Is Making Up Wedding Websites to Attack LGBTQ People
What’s curious about the 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis case is that no actual offense to religious freedoms occurred in the first place.
February 17, 2022
Melissa Gira Grant
The Groups Pushing Anti-Trans Laws Want to Divide the LGBTQ Movement
The same people keep pushing bill after bill, developing their strategy as they go.
February 19, 2021
Melissa Gira Grant
The Mothers Leading the Battle Against Trans Student Athletes
Their tactics mirror those employed by white mothers who fought school integration: disguising bigotry with pleas to protect children.
November 23, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
The Dangerous Inversions of the Debate Around Trans “Censorship”
The author of a book on the supposed “transgender craze seducing our daughters” claims she is being silenced. It is a very loud silence.
October 14, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
Amy Coney Barrett’s Gentle Deceptions
The Supreme Court nominee would have us believe she’s just a vessel for the law, but her rise to conservative power tells the real story.
September 22, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
The Accelerating Attack on Trans Student Athletes
The Trump administration’s fight to dismantle trans students’ rights is a reminder of how fragile Supreme Court victories really are.
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