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By: Sadie Gurman & Laura Kusisto – wsj.com – August 2, 2022 The Justice Department on Tuesday filed a lawsuit challenging Idaho’s near total ban on abortion, setting up the Biden administration’s first legal battle over abortion access since the Supreme Court in June overturned Roe v. Wade and eliminated the constitutional right to end a pregnancy. The lawsuit says…

Based on a simple reading, Proposition 1 would seem to push California abortion law far left by allowing pregnancy termination right up until birth. Could that be correct?

Even many voters who call themselves “pro-choice” on the issue of abortion have concerns when underage girls are involved.

In recent decades, hundreds of thousands of Californians and billions of dollars of wealth fled California for far freer states.

By: Tevi Troy – wsj.com – July 25, 2022 Mr. Biden’s inability to decide is reminiscent of Barack Obama, who was famous for long periods of indecision, particularly on what to do about Afghanistan in 2009. Former Vice President Dick Cheney accused Mr. Obama of “dithering” on this question. Mr. Biden shared this view of his former boss. “I thought he was…

By: Madeleine Kearns – nationalreview.com – July 28, 2022 ‘Roe and Casey are overruled” was the most explosive line from the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. In second place was Justice Clarence Thomas’s remark in his concurrence that the justices “should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents,” explicitly those relating to contraception…

By: Kevin D. Williamson – nationalreview.com – July 31, 2022 The corporate-welfare “climate-change bill” that Joe Manchin and his Democratic colleagues in Congress wish to inflict upon the republic is a bad piece of legislation for any number of reasons. The obvious one is the economic reason — the combination of higher taxes and a rush of hundreds of billions…

Some politicians in Washington don’t understand that increasing federal spending is one of the chief causes of inflation. Senate Democrats just rolled out new legislation titled the ‘Inflation Reduction Act.’

It appears unlikely that Roberts’ best prospect — Justice Brett Kavanaugh — was ever close to switching his earlier vote.

First Liberty Live! is continuing our series of special double-header episodes with two exemplary intellectual leaders: former solicitor general of the United States, Paul Clement, and Kristan Hawkins, president and founder of Students for Life.

First Liberty is defending Chabad of the Beaches, a small Jewish congregation in Atlantic Beach, New York, that recently bought a property to build a community center. Local officials are trying to seize the property under eminent domain, even though they already own multiple properties better suited for village projects.