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The decision means the ban will now likely remain in effect while the federal appeals court in Chicago takes time to hear arguments in the case.

The Environmental Protection Agency recently released new rules regarding the Waters of the United States that decide which bodies of water fall under federal protection. But a case the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule on soon throws those rules into question and could mean less protection for wetlands.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who is assigned to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, was the one who received the emergency application brought by a Wisconsin taxpayers group.

The office of Jay Ashcroft, a Republican, filed an amicus brief in a U.S. Supreme Court case that could give state lawmakers the power to set election rules, draw congressional maps without any review by state courts, and potentially refuse to certify presidential election results.

Political scientist Anita Manion discusses the political ramifications of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Missouri has now banned abortion in the state, except in cases where a parent’s health is severely threatened. But the full effects of the state’s ban and its legal ramifications are still to be seen, and activists on both sides say their work is far from over.

Abortion rights supporters in Missouri decried the court's decision to roll back decades of federal protections for people seeking abortions.

The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned the constitutional right to an abortion, reversing Roe v. Wade, the court's five-decade-old decision that guaranteed a woman's right to obtain an abortion.

Abortion providers are bracing for an expected U.S. Supreme Court ruling that would strike down Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that legalized abortion. If that happens, states would be able to ban the procedure. Hope Clinic and other providers in the southern Illinois are preparing to assist tens of thousands of new patients from across the country.

Abortion-rights organizations in the St. Louis area have received hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations since Politico published a draft Supreme Court decision last week that could overturn Roe v. Wade. Missouri is one of a dozen states with a law that would prohibit almost all abortions as soon as the 1973 decision is overturned.