Democrats Are About to Lose the Federal Courts for a Lifetime

Democrats Are About to Lose the Federal Courts for a Lifetime

Nov 8, 2019
Jessica Mason Pieklo

If Democrats don’t take bold action and make the federal courts an electoral priority, we will lose them for a lifetime.

Republicans hit a new milestone in their campaign to capture the federal courts for a lifetime. President Trump has now appointed over 150 judges to the bench, including one-quarter of all judges on federal courts of appeals.

Let that number really sink in: One in four seats on federal courts of appeals is now held by a Trump appointee.

Continued: https://rewire.news/article/2019/11/08/democrats-federal-courts-lifetime/

08.11.2019

court cases on abortion

Abortion Laws in India – a Review of Court Cases

Abortion Laws in India - a Review of Court Cases
February 1, 2017

This report aims to clarify provisions of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act, to highlight contradictions and gaps in the MTP Act and related laws, including the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PC&PNDT) Act, and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses (POCSO) Act, and to examine the implications of the language and legal conclusions in abortion judgments.

The report examines issues in implementing the MTP Act and provides summaries of key Supreme Court, High Court, and District Court judgments on various themes including consent; human rights; protection of MTP/CAC providers who follow the mandates of the law; and international interpretation of obligations to provide access to safe abortion services.

Continued at source: Ipas Development Foundation: http://ipasdevelopmentfoundation.org/publications/abortion-laws-in-india-a-review-of-court-cases.html

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