Progressive Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson today became the first African-American woman to serve on the Supreme Court, without changing the balance of the conservative-majority body. The 51-year-old judge was selected in late February by President Joe Biden, who had made a campaign promise to appoint a black woman to the Supreme Court for the first […]
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Women Democrats call on Biden and Congress to protect abortion rights
Leading women Democrats today called on President Joe Biden and Congress to protect the right to abortion nationwide, amid Friday’s Supreme Court ruling that overturned the nationwide 49-year right. In particular, according to Reuters, Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren and lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez urged Biden to use federal property as a safe haven for women in […]
A. Tsipras: The decision on abortions is a dangerous message for the international community
The president of SYRIZA-PS, Alexis Tsipras, characterizes today ‘s decision of the US Supreme Court for an abortion case as a “dangerous message”. In particular, in a post made in English by Al. Tsipras writes: “The Supreme Court ruling on abortions sends a dangerous message that affects the international community. Rights that should be self-evident […]
Biden on abortion: Sad day – Women’s lives in danger now
LAST UPDATE 23:50 US President Joe Biden described today as a “sad day for the court and the country” in an emergency address to the American people following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the historic 1973 decision that constitutionally guaranteed the right of women to abortion. As he mentioned, this is a decision that […]
USA: The right to abortion
According to Politico, the US Supreme Court wants to overturn the right to abortion. However, women will not give up so easily, believes Christina Bergman. That’s enough. Conservatives in the US have managed to go back in time in recent years. They passed anti-abortion laws, increasingly restricting women’s right to abortion, something that has been […]
Germany-Fr. Mertz (CDU): As a ‘beggar’, Solz will be in the USA tomorrow
The new CDU leader, Friedrich Mertz, described German Chancellor Olaf Solz (SPD) to Bild am Sonntag a few hours before he met with US President Joe Biden in the United States. Mertz, whose party leads in national polls just months after losing a landslide victory in Germany’s federal election, against arms shipments to Ukraine from […]
Biden will nominate an African-American female judge for the US Supreme Court
US President Joe Biden today confirmed that he would nominate a black woman to the US Supreme Court for the first time in history to replace the resigned progressive judge Steven Brier. The Democratic president, who made this promise during his election campaign, clarified in statements made by the White House that he has not […]
US: Supreme Court Rejects New Appeal Against Texas Abortion Law
The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a new blow to opponents of the law in the state of Texas yesterday, which, for four months, has banned abortion from the sixth week of pregnancy. The leading body of American justice, the clear majority of whose members (6/9) are conservative, refused – without explaining its reasoning – to […]
Trump calls on Supreme Court’s Sotomayor and Ginsburg to recuse
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in New Delhi, India, February 25, 2020. Al Drago | REUTERS President Donald Trump on Tuesday accused Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg of anti-Trump bias and suggested they should stay out of cases involving him. The president, speaking to reporters in India, […]