If the courts agree to vacate the conviction, Lucio will have spent 16 years on death row for a crime that never happened.
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The smears spurred Austrian police to raid Islamophobia scholar Farid Hafez’s family home. Then the terrorism charges fell apart.
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The state says EMTALA, a law barring discrimination in emergency medical care, interferes with its abortion ban.
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The IVF vs. embryonic personhood fracas forces Republicans to face the living people harmed by their defense of cellular rights.
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New court filings say that the city is violating an eight-year-old court order mandating access to education for people under 22.
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On issues from abortion rights to criminal justice reforms, the war on democracy is opening new fronts on the state level.
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Bankrolled by real estate investors, a multimillion-dollar recall effort against Pamela Price launched just six months after she took office.
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Some schools are acting on the misbegotten notion that Palestinian freedom is a threat to Jewish safety.
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The justices didn’t seem to buy the tenuous theory that would allow the doctors to sue the FDA over medication abortion.
The post Anti-Abortion Doctors Struggle to Explain Mifepristone Harms Before Supreme Court appeared first on The Intercept.
Reform-minded district attorneys like Minnesota’s Mary Moriarty are facing backlash for prosecuting police shootings and misconduct.
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