Here Are the Biggest Legal Challenges Facing Trump’s Agenda in 2018
Mother Jones Illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Trump administration’s lawyers have had quite the year. Between lawsuits claiming the president illegally accepted gifts from foreign governments and a defamation case from an Apprentice alumna who has accused Donald Trump of sexual misconduct, the White House legal team has faced one…
A Migrant Teen Got the Abortion She Sought. But the Trump Administration Is Still Fighting.
Activists with Planned Parenthood demonstrate in support of a 17-year-old unaccompanied immigrant seeking an abortion outside in Washington on October 20.J. Scott Applewhite/AP The legal battle over a migrant teen’s right to an abortion appeared to come to a close last month when a federal appeals court allowed the procedure to take place. But the…
The Supreme Court Took a Major Abortion Case That Could Stump All the Justices
Olivier Douliery/AP In recent years, Republican legislators in more than a dozen states around the country have passed laws that require doctors to say specific, misleading statements to abortion-seeking patients before performing the procedure—from requiring doctors to perform sonograms and describe them to patients, to mandating that they tell patients that a pre-viable fetus will feel pain, that there…
Undocumented Teen Finally Gets Abortion After Month-Long Fight With Trump Administration
Activists with Planned Parenthood demonstrate in support of a pregnant 17-year-old seeking an abortion who’s being held in a Texas facility for unaccompanied immigrant children.J. Scott Applewhite/AP The undocumented minor who’s been fighting for her constitutional right to an abortion finally underwent the procedure on Wednesday morning after the government tried to stop her for…
Appeals Court Paves the Way for Migrant Teen to Get an Abortion
Scott Applewhite/AP A federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to allow Jane Doe—an undocumented pregnant minor currently being housed in a federal refugee shelter in Texas—to obtain the abortion she has sought since the middle of September. The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), part of the Department of Health and Human Services…