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In a landmark judgement, the <keyword id="19900742" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Supreme-Court-of-India" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="Supreme Court of India" meta.hostid="261" meta.entityid="Supreme Court of India">Supreme Court of India</keyword> has broadened the definition of crimes under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. The court ruled that simply viewing <keyword id="20456028" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="child-pornography" source="keywords">child pornography</keyword> on the internet, without physically possessing or storing the material, is now a criminal offence under Section 15 of the <keyword id="19920672" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="POCSO-Act" source="keywords">POCSO Act</keyword> and provisions of the <keyword id="19930099" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="information-technology" source="keywords">Information Technology</keyword> (IT) Act. This ruling significantly expands the scope of the law to address the evolving challenges posed by digital platforms. <h2>A wider net</h2>In its ruling, a bench comprising Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud and Justice J.B. Pardiwala stated, "Any act of viewing, distributing, or displaying child pornographic material by a person over the internet without any actual or physical possession or storage of such material in any device or in any form or manner would also amount to 'possession' in terms of Section 15 of POCSO Act." This interpretation effectively settled conflicting verdicts from various high courts, notably overturning a Madras High Court decision that had quashed a POCSO case against an individual who had viewed child pornography but had not circulated it. The Supreme Court, in agreeing with senior advocate H.S. Phoolka's arguments, deemed the earlier judgement "egregiously erroneous." <h2>Crimes categorised</h2>In a further clarification, the Supreme Court divided crimes related to child pornography under Section 15 of the POCSO Act into three distinct categories. The decision emphasised that law enforcement and courts must carefully assess each case to determine the specific category under which an offence falls. One critical insight from the judgement is that an offender cannot escape prosecution by simply deleting illegal content before an FIR is registered. The bench declared, "We clarify that there is no requirement under Section 15 of POCSO Act that ‘storage’ or ‘possession’ must continue to exist at the time of initiation of the criminal proceeding, and no such requirement can be read into the said provision." <div type="Article" hostid="261" msid="113417654" title="“Learned no lessons from Nirbhaya case”: Madhya Pradesh High Court criticises lenient treatment of crime-accused juvies in India" mstype="2" mssubtype="0"></div>This means that even if an individual deletes the material before the authorities take action, they may still face <keyword id="20554971" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="legal-consequences" source="keywords">legal consequences</keyword> based on the mere act of viewing or temporary possession. <h2><keyword id="23293250" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="automatic-downloads" source="keywords">Automatic downloads</keyword></h2>Acknowledging the complexities of <keyword id="20573374" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="digital-media" source="keywords">digital media</keyword>, the Supreme Court recognised that certain child pornographic content might be automatically downloaded onto devices without the user’s knowledge. To address this, the court created a safeguard for those unaware of the offensive material stored on their devices. If a person discovers such material on their device through automatic downloads, they will not be prosecuted if they take immediate steps to delete it and report it to the authorities. However, the onus is on the device owner to act swiftly. Failure to delete or report the offensive material after becoming aware of it would constitute an offence under the law. To avoid the automatic downloading of problematic material, there are several proactive measures you can take. First, adjust your browser settings to disable automatic downloads and pop-ups, ensuring you have to approve any file before it is downloaded to your device. Regularly update your web browser and security software to benefit from the latest protections against malicious websites. <div type="Article" hostid="261" msid="113146443" title="Karnataka HC rejects school teacher&amp;#39;s plea to quash POCSO case over filming of girl students" mstype="2" mssubtype="0"></div>Additionally, be cautious about the sites you visit, particularly those that seem suspicious or unfamiliar; stick to well-known, reputable sources. Additionally, consider using ad blockers or content filters that can prevent potentially harmful content from loading. Always be mindful of any unsolicited links in emails or messages, as these can lead to automatic downloads of unwanted material. Lastly, routinely monitor your device for any unfamiliar files and promptly delete anything that looks suspicious to minimise your risk of unknowingly storing problematic content. <h2>What this means for the future</h2>This judgement sends a clear message: India is taking a zero-tolerance approach toward child pornography in all its forms, whether stored, distributed, or merely viewed. The ruling adapts the legal framework to modern challenges, ensuring that perpetrators can no longer hide behind technicalities such as the absence of physical possession. The Supreme Court’s interpretation also places a burden on individuals to exercise responsibility in the digital world. Anyone who stumbles upon child pornography, whether intentionally or accidentally, must take swift action to avoid legal consequences. (With inputs from agencies)

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New Delhi, About 82 per cent of the total income from unknown sources declared by national political parties in 2022-23 came from electoral bonds, according to a poll rights body. The Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) also said that the analysis of the national parties' audit reports and donation statements filed with the Election Commission (EC) shows that the sources remain largely unknown. Out of the Rs 1,832.88 crore as income from unknown sources, the share of income from electoral bonds was Rs 1,510 crore or 82.42 per cent, according to the analysis of the financial reports for the fiscal year 2022-23 submitted to the poll panel, it stated. For this study, six national parties were considered -- the <keyword id="19931558" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="bharatiya-janata-party" source="keywords">Bharatiya Janata Party</keyword> (BJP), the Congress, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M), the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the National People's Party (<keyword id="20864989" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="npep" source="keywords">NPEP</keyword>). The BJP declared the highest income from unknown sources among the national parties at Rs 1,400 crore or 76.39 per cent of the total amount. The Congress declared an amount of Rs 315.11 crore (17.19 per cent). The BSP has declared that it did not receive any funds from voluntary contributions -- above or below Rs 20,000, sale of coupons or electoral bonds, or unknown sources of income, the ADR said. Though the amount of donations from electoral bonds has been highlighted for the national parties, state parties also get a substantial amount of money from electoral bonds, the NGO noted. Between the financial years 2004-05 and 2022-23, the national parties collected Rs 19,083 crore from unknown sources, it said. On its latest analysis for the financial year 2022-23, the ADR said among these unknown sources, the major contributor was income from electoral bonds, constituting a "massive 82.42 per cent of the total income from unknown sources". Further scrutiny revealed that out of the total income from unknown sources, Rs 1,510 crore came from electoral bonds, it said. In addition, the Congress and the CPI(M) have also declared a combined income of Rs 136.79 crore from the sale of coupons, constituting 7.46 per cent of the income from unknown sources, its analysis showed. The BSP received Rs 29.27 crore from other known sources of income which included bank interest (Rs 15.05 crore), membership fees (Rs 13.73 crore), gain on sale of immovable property (Rs 28.49 lakh) and interest on income tax refund for 2021-22 (Rs 20.65 lakh), the organisation said. The total income of the six national political parties in the financial year 2022-23 is Rs 3,076.88 crore, it said. Donations from voluntary contributions below Rs 20,000 formed 10 per cent of the income from unknown sources, totalling Rs 183.28 crore. Currently, political parties are not required to reveal the names of individuals or organisations giving less than Rs 20,000. The ADR has suggested stringent measures to enhance transparency and accountability in political funding. It advocates for full disclosure of all donors under the Right to Information (RTI) Act and proposes that the mode of payment for all donations, regardless of the amount, be declared in the audit reports submitted to the Income Tax Department and the EC. Moreover, the EC's recommendation to grant tax exemption only to parties contesting and winning seats in elections, along with the disclosure of donors contributing above Rs 2,000, has received support from the ADR. In a landmark verdict delivered last month, ahead of the <keyword id="19895394" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="lok-sabha" source="keywords">Lok Sabha</keyword> polls, the <keyword id="19895345" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="supreme-court" source="keywords">Supreme Court</keyword> scrapped the government's electoral bonds scheme of anonymous political funding, terming it "unconstitutional" and ordering disclosure of the names of the purchasers, value of the bonds and their recipients.

About 82.4% of national parties' unknown income tied to electoral bonds says poll rights body

The <keyword id="6354977" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="supreme-court" source="Orion">Supreme Court</keyword> on Wednesday allowed a plea by the Centre seeking allocation of Rs 5,000 crore out of Rs 24,000 crore deposited by the <keyword id="4637" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="sahara" source="Orion">Sahara</keyword> group with market regulator SEBI to repay its depositors. The direction came on an application filed by the Centre in a PIL by a person, named Pinak <keyword id="16975120" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="pani-mohanty" source="Orion">Pani Mohanty</keyword>, who sought a direction to pay the amount to the depositors who invested in several chit fund companies and Sahara credit firms. A bench of Justices MR Shah and CT Ravikumar said the amount shall be disbursed to depositors duped by the Sahara group of cooperative societies. The entire process will be monitored by former apex court judge Justice R Subhash Reddy, the bench said. The Centre had sought money from the SEBI-Sahara Sahara-SEBI escrow account that was formed after the top court in August 2012 directed two Sahara firms - <keyword id="636641" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="sahara-india-real-estate-corporation-limited" source="Orion">Sahara India Real Estate Corporation Limited</keyword> (SIRECL) and <keyword id="16974549" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="sahara-housing-india-corporation-limited" source="Orion">Sahara Housing India Corporation Limited</keyword> (SHICL) - to refund investors. SEE ALSO: <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/tax-hit-on-debt-funds-is-just-the-latest-punch-to-reeling-mutual-fund-companies/articleshow/99081740.cms">Tax hit on debt funds is just the latest punch to reeling mutual fund companies</a> <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/health/news/worried-if-your-cold-is-covid-new-ultra-thin-sensor-to-help-detect-covid-flu-in-10-secs/articleshow/99082416.cms">Worried if your cold is Covid? New ultra-thin sensor to help detect Covid &amp; flu in 10 secs</a>

SC allows Centre's plea seeking ₹5,000 cr from SEBI-Sahara fund to repay depositors

The government has officially announced October 1, 2024, as the starting date for <keyword id="23245808" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="Vivad-Se-Vishwas-2-0" source="keywords">Vivad Se Vishwas 2.0</keyword>, the direct tax dispute resolution scheme. If you're involved in a tax dispute, this scheme might be your chance to resolve it efficiently. Originally introduced during the 2024-25 Union Budget, the scheme is designed to handle <keyword id="22518437" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="income-tax-disputes" source="keywords">income tax disputes</keyword> that are currently tied up in appeals. Confirming the news, the <keyword id="19900485" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Finance-Ministry" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="Finance Ministry" meta.hostid="261" meta.entityid="Finance Ministry">finance ministry</keyword> said in its notification: "The central government hereby appoints the 1st day of October, 2024 as the date on which the Direct Tax Vivad Se Vishwas Scheme, 2024 shall come into force." <h2>The scope of the disputes</h2>To give you an idea of the scale, about 2.7 crore direct tax demands are currently being contested, amounting to a staggering Rs 35 lakh crore. These disputes are scattered across various legal forums, and Vivad Se Vishwas 2.0 aims to help clear this backlog. <div type="Article" hostid="261" msid="113444994" title="In the long run, rate cut by Fed will be favourable for most US banks: Moody&amp;#39;s" mstype="2" mssubtype="0"></div>In her Budget speech, <keyword id="19912360" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Finance-Minister-Nirmala-Sitharaman" source="keywords">Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman</keyword> highlighted the government’s dedication to simplifying taxes and minimising litigation. She said, "The government will continue its efforts to simplify taxes, improve <keyword id="20404572" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="taxpayer-services" source="keywords">taxpayer services</keyword>, provide tax certainty and reduce litigation while enhancing revenues." <h2>Who can avail the scheme?</h2>If you have any pending disputes or appeals, including writs and special leave petitions, whether filed by you or the tax authorities, as of July 22, 2024, you are eligible to take advantage of this scheme. The list of eligible cases includes those pending before the Supreme Court, high courts, Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, and Commissioner/Joint Commissioner (Appeals). It also covers cases before the Dispute Resolution Panel (DRP) and revision petitions awaiting a decision from the Commissioner of Income Tax. <div type="Article" hostid="261" msid="113417255" title="Individuals earning over Rs 10 cr rise by 63% in India; financial assets of high net worth individuals to nearly double by 2028" mstype="2" mssubtype="0"></div>However, the window to decide whether or not to participate in the scheme is limited. As Karishma R. Phatarphekar, Partner at <keyword id="20006170" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Deloitte-India" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="Deloitte India" meta.hostid="261" meta.entityid="Deloitte India">Deloitte India</keyword>, said: "Given the limited time window, an informed decision on opting for the scheme should be made promptly." The rules and forms for the scheme are expected to be published "imminently in the coming week." <h2>Success of the original Vivad Se Vishwas</h2>For those who are wondering about the potential impact, the first Vivad Se Vishwas scheme, introduced in 2020, resolved a significant number of cases. More than 1 lakh taxpayers participated, and the government collected about Rs 75,000 crore in taxes. With this track record, the expectations from Vivad Se Vishwas 2.0 are high. With October 1 just around the corner, now is the time to prepare if you are considering resolving your tax dispute through Vivad Se Vishwas 2.0. As the rules and forms are expected shortly, it’s wise to consult your <keyword id="23245810" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="tax-advisor" source="keywords">tax advisor</keyword> and make a decision soon. This scheme could provide the relief you’ve been waiting for while contributing to a more efficient tax system for all. (With inputs from PTI)

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India risked the loss of precious assets of the national carrier Air India, and more claims of damages from foreign investors who had put money in a Bengaluru-based startup Devas. The investors’ claim was that the government had wrongfully cancelled a satellite deal between Devas and Antrix, Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) commercial arm. This was upheld by two international tribunals in 2017 and 2019. However, now, a verdict from the Supreme Court of India, which has held the Antrix-Devas deal to be a fraudulent one. The Indian government hopes to use this order to battle these claims for damages and to protect the foreign assets of Air India ahead of its sale to the Tata Group. "The shareholders knew of the fraudulent activities in the deal between Antrix and Devas," Finance Minister <keyword id="129243" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="nirmala-sitharaman" source="Orion">Nirmala Sitharaman</keyword> said. “You bring in ₹579 crore, take away ₹488 crore and still make tons and tons of rupees by going to the court and filing cases. That’s the fraud being perpetrated… No country that respects the rule of law will ignore these facts,” she added. The controversy began with a ₹1,400 crore satellite deal in 2005, between Antrix and Devas Multimedia, which was then cancelled in 2011 after charges of kickbacks. A legal battle followed, and lasted a decade, until the Supreme Court allowed the winding up of Devas on Monday (January 17). Meanwhile, three investors in Devas have demanded the $111 million compensation (awarded by an international tribunal) from India for cancelling the deal. The investors got a Canadian court order allowing the seizure of half Air India's assets in the country before India’s national airline was sold to the Tata Group. If these claims were to derail a crucial, and a long-awaited move, to privatise the airline, it would have been a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/news/air-india-privatisation-saga-time-we-stopped-paying-20-crore-per-day-of-taxpayers-money-to-keep-it-flying/articleshow/87098231.cms">big setback for the government</a>. A similar appeal has been made in a US Federal Court as well. Sitharaman said that the government would hold discussions between departments before deciding the next step in this battle against Devas’ investors. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/investment/news/coindcx-hiring-2000-plus-people-this-year-crypto-coders-developers-product-development-and-other-roles/articleshow/88972086.cms">EXCLUSIVE: CoinDCX plans to hire more than 2,000 people this year — and they are not just looking at coders</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/careers/news/top-jobs-of-2022-include-it-business-development-marketing-roles-as-per-linkedin/slidelist/88969206.cms">These are the 15 fastest growing jobs in India</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/mobile/news/smartphone-under-30000-rs-segment-has-nearly-doubled-in-the-last-one-year-as-per-xiaomi-cbo/articleshow/88969336.cms">INTERVIEW: The sub-₹30,000 smartphone segment has nearly doubled in the last one year, says Xiaomi India’s chief business officer</a>

India plans to use the Supreme Court order in Antrix-Devas case to defend Air India's assets

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Sen. Cotton attacked <keyword id="13038053" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="ketanji-brown-jackson" source="Orion">Ketanji Brown Jackson</keyword> for representing terror suspects as a public defender.</li><li>Cotton argued that this means she would be willing to defend Nazi war criminals.</li></ul>Republican Sen. <keyword id="12297627" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="tom-cotton" source="Orion">Tom Cotton</keyword> of Arkansas has been criticised for claiming that Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson would choose to defend Nazi war criminals.In a speech on the Senate floor Tuesday, Cotton renewed attacks on Jackson's work as a public defender, a recurrent theme for Republicans during her nomination hearings. In the speech he criticised her for representing four men detained under anti-terrorism laws in Guantanamo Bay.He omitted to mention that they were cases she was assigned as a public defender, rather than clients she chose to defend. "Judge Jackson has also shown real interest in helping terrorists," <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tag/tom-cotton/">Cotton</a> stated."You know, the last Judge Jackson left the Supreme Court to go Nuremberg and prosecute the case against the Nazis," he said. "This Judge Jackson might've gone there to defend them."Cotton was referring to Robert H Jackson's role in the prosecution of Nazi war criminals in the Nuremberg trials in 1945. <a href="https://www.vox.com/22979925/ketanji-brown-jackson-public-defender">Legal experts told Vox</a> that scrutiny of her work as a public defender is not merited, as she had no choice about the cases she took on. Everyone had the right to legal representation in the US, so even those accused of terrorism, rape, and murder can get a public defender to argue their case."Federal public defenders do not get to pick their clients," she said in a recent nomination hearing.In a tweet Tuesday, <a href="https://twitter.com/ADL/status/1511479138003025922?s=20&amp;t=TRjO-trn5f4fGtZ2IDoagQ">the Anti-Defamation League</a> described Cotton's conduct as "absolutely shameful.""To use a Nazi analogy as some sort of twisted way to attack Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is reprehensible."Democrats also criticised Cotton for the claim. "The fact that a brilliant black woman is going to be a Supreme Court judge offends him so much that he doesn't even realize he just came out against due process," <a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1511464573311885312?s=20&amp;t=TRjO-trn5f4fGtZ2IDoagQ">said Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.</a>Republicans have also launched a series of misleading attacks on Jackson's sentencing record as a federal judge on child abuse image cases, alleging she was lenient despite her Despite fierce GOP attacks, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mitt-romney-announces-hell-vote-to-confirm-ketanji-brown-jackson-2022-4?r=US&amp;IR=T">three Republican senators have said they will vote for Jackson's</a> confirmation in a vote expected to be held in the Senate either Thursday or Friday.

Sen. Cotton claims Ketanji Brown Jackson would have defended Nazi war criminals, the latest in a line of unfounded GOP attacks

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="13112333" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="state-supreme-court" source="Orion">State supreme court</keyword> justices are the last line of defense for <keyword id="11901426" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="abortion" source="Orion">abortion</keyword> rights in a post-Roe world.</li><li>And a quarter of the US' state <keyword id="11893011" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="supreme-court" source="Orion">supreme court</keyword> justices, 86, will be on the ballot in 2022. </li></ul>The next big battle over abortion <keyword id="11893346" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="politics" source="Orion">politics</keyword> is your own backyard.With the US Supreme Court <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/supreme-court-abortion-decision-final-ruling-scotus-roe-v-wade-2022-6">overturning one of its most consequential decisions in modern history</a>, the fight to ban and restrict abortion now moves to 50 different state supreme courts scattered across the country. In a world in which Roe v. Wade is overruled, it is these <keyword id="13596805" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="state-courts" source="Orion">state courts</keyword> that often operate outside the national media spotlight that will have the last word on interpreting the right to abortion under each state's constitution. These judges, who don't get lifetime appointments like US Supreme Court justices, except in Rhode Island, are the ones deciding whether to uphold or overturn slews of state-specific abortion bans and restrictions.And a quarter of these justices' jobs are on the line in 2022.In all, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/2022-midterms-over-80-state-supreme-court-seats-are-up-for-grabs-2022-4">86 state supreme court seats</a>, out of 344 total in the nation, are on the ballot in November. Elections for state supreme court justices are now the most direct avenue for voters to shape abortion policy for a generation. "We very well may be at an inflection point for state supreme courts," Douglas Keith, counsel at the Brennan Center who studies state courts, told Insider in March."You will see increased attention and potentially a totally new dynamic around state judicial elections as a result of the US Supreme Court pushing that issue to the states," Keith said of abortion. The Supreme Court kicking abortion policy entirely into the laps of largely unknown state supreme justices will accelerate<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/state-supreme-courts-are-the-next-frontier-in-politics-2022-elections-2022-4"> the already-skyrocketing amounts of outside spending</a> and negative advertising in state supreme court races. And at least at the national level, Republicans are outgunning and outspending Democrats in those races.The Supreme Court overturning Roe is also likely to fuel state legislatures to combine new abortion bans with efforts to manipulate their court systems in their favor through<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/lawmakers-are-attacking-undermining-state-supreme-court-judges-2022-4"> partisan interference with state courts and impeachment threats against </a>judges who stand in their way. Louisiana lawmakers unveiled a new abortion ban that would<a href="https://twitter.com/EthanSCorey/status/1523339036026454016"> impeach and remove judges who might rule against it</a>, just days after Politico obtained and published a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/leaked-draft-opinion-appears-scotus-could-overturn-roe-v-wade-2022-5">leaked draft opinion</a> showing the court's majority primed to strike down Roe. Already in 2022, state courts have played a crucial role in upholding abortion bans. In March, the Texas Supreme Court shut<a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2022/03/11/abortion-texas-supreme-court/"> off all possible routes for plaintiffs in state court</a> to challenge a strict "heartbeat" abortion ban, one of two in effect in the US that effectively bans the procedure after around six weeks of pregnancy. Texas' bill, enacted last fall, outsources enforcement of the ban to private citizens in a novel legal structure that <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/oklahoma-abortion-clinics-preveiw-roe-v-wade-rcna27579">Oklahoma has since replicated</a> with a bill that went into effect the day after the draft opinion leak. And<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/abortion-access-in-america-maps-charts-if-roe-falls-2018-8"> 23 states have laws on their books that would restrict abortion</a> in a post-Roe world, according to the Guttmacher Institute. They include "trigger" laws that would ban abortion as soon as Roe is overturned, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/michigan-gretchen-whitmer-sues-prevent-reinstatement-abortion-ban-2022-5">pre-Roe abortion bans</a> that are currently unenforceable but could be put back into effect, post-Roe abortion bans that are currently blocked by courts, and amendments establishing no right to abortion under state constitutions.Other states, like Florida, have abortion restrictions set to go into effect later this summer which are likely to be challenged in state courts too. <div type="image" title="A child holds a sign during an abortion-rights Mothers Day demonstration outside the U.S. Supreme Court on May 8, 2022 in Washington, DC." height="1000" width="2000" msid="92441411" hostid="261" sizebytes="86026"></div><h2>The end of Roe may not save Democrats in Congress. But it could make waves in state judicial races.</h2>Democratic strategists <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-08/biden-taps-democrats-abortion-fury-with-midterm-wipeout-looming">are hoping that the Supreme Court gutting Roe</a> will be a motivating factor boosting turnout in the 2022 midterms.But the issue alone isn't guaranteed to save the party's chances of holding onto control of Congress. For starters,<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/democrats-specifics-abortion-roe-v-wade-scotus-leak-opinion-2022-5"> Democrats are already showing they have limited options to bolster abortion rights at the federal level</a>, and President Joe Biden's unpopularity, as well as voters' dissatisfaction with the economy, are also anchors weighing the party down with just six months to go before Election Day. All of those caveats aside, Democrats are also anticipating GOP-led state legislatures passing draconian abortion bans in a post-Roe world could turn elections for state-level officials like<a href="https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/717269/a-ticking-time-bomb-lingering-questions-on-abortion-access-hover-over-gubernatorial-races/?unlock=2E5HWIMIH98H72HL"> governors</a>,<a href="https://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=34ba21159848822f802af585ba049e156f7a412c76fab276ee65c4dd5a92c3713843d943b30d6a53b34700c21bba4b31"> attorneys general</a>,<a href="https://boltsmag.org/what-will-your-local-prosecutor-do-if-roe-falls/"> local prosecutors</a>, and state judges into even more red-hot political battlegrounds. The stakes are already apparent in two key presidential battleground states where Republicans control both branches of the state legislatures: Ohio and North Carolina. In both, partisan control of their state supreme courts is up for grabs in November. North Carolina now has two Democratic-controlled state supreme seats up for election. And in Ohio, which has a six-week abortion ban<a href="https://www.wtol.com/article/news/politics/state-politics/federal-judge-extends-stay-ohio-heartbeat-abortion-ban/512-9a88fc3a-d215-4f1f-99be-5e83bcbd1d21"> currently blocked in federal court</a>, three state supreme court seats — including the position of chief justice — are on the ballot. "I don't think [Republicans] understand how unpopular that's going to be among women voters, independents, Republican women in the suburbs," a Democratic campaign strategist in Ohio told Insider of the possibility of Roe being overturned. "They're not going to take that."But Republicans could just as easily be mobilized to retain or flip control of key courts that are controlled by Democrats, like North Carolina's, or have upheld abortion rights under state constitutions, like Kansas' high court. "We're going to see anti-choice groups focusing on these courts that have protected abortion rights at the state level, because that is the last barrier to criminalizing abortion," said Billy Corriher, a writer and author of "Usurpers: How Voters Stopped the GOP Takeover of North Carolina's Courts."Abortion could especially motivate conservatives to oust supreme court justices in order to reshape the court in Kansas, the site of an ongoing tug-of-war between anti-abortion groups and the Kansas Supreme Court. In August,<a href="https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article261037837.html"> voters will decide whether to pass a constitutional amendment</a> establishing no right to abortion in the state constitution, reversing a 2019 ruling from the state supreme court finding a right to abortion in the Kansas Bill of Rights. Then, six of the court's seven appointed justices will face a likely campaign to block them from another term on the bench in November. Davis Hammett, a Kansas-based activist with the progressive youth voter engagement group Loud Light, predicted that anti-abortion groups will follow the push to pass the amendment with a campaign to kick the justices off the bench. Organizations including Kansans for Life tried to do so in 2016, <a href="https://www.kcur.org/politics-elections-and-government/2016-11-09/all-kansas-supreme-court-justices-retained">but were unsuccessful.</a><div type="image" title="Abortion-rights protester Michele Pucciarelli addresses a crowd during a demonstration outside of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, Sunday, May 8, 2022" height="1000" width="2000" msid="92441413" hostid="261" sizebytes="153192"></div><h2>A chance for Democrats to bolster their 'anemic' state campaign infrastructure. </h2>Democrats could seize on abortion policy being pushed to the states by directing more of their resources and political capital towards increasingly consequential state-level elections, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/18/republicans-now-enjoy-unmatched-power-states-it-was-40-year-effort/">races where Republicans have dominated for decades. </a>Gaby Goldstein, co-founder of Sister District, a group that supports progressives running for state legislatures, told Insider that many progressives view state power as "inferior" to federal power. "I think that's a terrible mistake," she said. In recent years, Democrats have begun to recognize<a href="https://www.lexisnexis.com/community/insights/legal/capitol-journal/b/state-net/posts/the-enduring-republican-grip-on-state-legislatures"> the cost of the decades-long underinvestment</a> in state-level races. In the wake of President Donald Trump's win in 2016, progressives formed groups like Sister District, Swing Left, and Run For Something, to make up the deficit by recruiting and supporting progressive candidates for state legislative seats and local offices. But the decades-long mismatch in investment at the state level, among other things, resulted in Republicans<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/11/democrats-2020-elections-state-legislatures/617047/"> locking up their gains in state legislatures in 2020</a>, even as Democrats won back control of the White House.Goldstein said that the "anemic infrastructure" when it comes to state court races on the left is due to Democrats, as a whole, lacking the same expansive and positive view of state power that conservatives hold. "We're in a big hole, and we got to get out of this hole right away," she said. The Republican State Leadership Committee, for example, has spent around $20 million<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/state-supreme-courts-are-the-next-frontier-in-politics-2022-elections-2022-4"> influencing state supreme court races</a> over the past decade, contributing to a "significant imbalance" in spending from liberals and conservative sources, Keith said. Democrats have steadily closed the gap in state supreme court races mainly with campaign spending by PACs and nonprofits at the state level. But they lack any kind of national, organized equivalent. The RSLC's counterpart, the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, is beginning to invest money in state supreme court races, but has historically focused mainly on state legislatures. And while the National Democratic Redistricting Committee has spent some money influencing state supreme court races, the scope of their spending only represents a fraction of the RSLC's investments, Keith said. "It's not what a lot of organizations are built for," Goldstein said of state court races. "It's a gap in the infrastructure that we all, collectively, need to address."But 2022, Goldstein argued, poses a potentially once-in-a-generation opportunity for progressives to construct a positive narrative that centers state actors, like judges, as forces for good. "We need to redistribute the energy from almost entirely federal strategies to include robust programs at the state level," she said. <div type="image" title="Lab technician Stephannie Chaffee prepares materials that will be used to test women's blood ahead of the arrival of patients, Saturday, Oct. 9, 2021, at Hope Medical Group for Women in Shreveport, La." height="999" width="1999" msid="92441414" hostid="261" sizebytes="131988"></div><h2>Abortion will put even more of a target on state judges' backs. </h2>Even if Democrats hold onto key state supreme court seats, the overturning of Roe will spur<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/lawmakers-are-attacking-undermining-state-supreme-court-judges-2022-4"> more efforts by Republican-controlled legislatures</a> to curtail state courts' ability to provide judicial review of abortion laws and target the independence of the courts. In 2021, 14 states passed 19 laws that curtail state courts' ability to rein in or strike down state laws, politicize judicial selection, and make it easier for judges to be targeted for their decisions,<a href="https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/legislative-assaults-state-courts-december-2021-update"> according to the Brennan Center</a>. On top of that, lawmakers in 10 states <a href="https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/legislative-assaults-state-courts-december-2021-update#ch4a">proposed 14 bills</a> that would outlaw abortion, prohibit state supreme courts from overturning abortion restrictions, and/or treat all state and federal court decisions upholding abortion rights as null and void, with one such bill moving out of committee in Missouri. None of those measures passed in 2021, but lawmakers could revive them in upcoming legislative sessions or include attacks on judges in new abortion bans. Already, Republican state lawmakers in Louisiana responded to the draft Supreme Court opinion leak by<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/louisiana-lawmakers-advance-bill-classifying-abortion-as-homicide-2022-5"> pushing a new, draconian bill</a> that classifies abortion as homicide, opens the door to abortion patients being charged with murder, and subjects judges who block or overturn the law to impeachment or removal from the bench."It's crucial in this moment for the public to know how important these courts are," Keith said. "No matter where you lie on the ideological spectrum, there's going to be a moment in which you are hoping that these courts are able to be independent."This is the latest story in an Insider series about state supreme courts. Read parts <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/2022-midterms-over-80-state-supreme-court-seats-are-up-for-grabs-2022-4">one</a>, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/state-supreme-courts-are-the-next-frontier-in-politics-2022-elections-2022-4">two</a>, and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/lawmakers-are-attacking-undermining-state-supreme-court-judges-2022-4">three</a> here.

Judges most Americans ignore will now decide your right to abortion

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="13112333" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="state-supreme-court" source="Orion">State supreme court</keyword> justices will be the last line of defense for <keyword id="11901426" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="abortion" source="Orion">abortion</keyword> rights in a post-Roe world.</li><li>And a quarter of the US' state <keyword id="11893011" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="supreme-court" source="Orion">supreme court</keyword> justices, 86, will be on the ballot in 2022. </li></ul>The next big battle over abortion <keyword id="11893346" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="politics" source="Orion">politics</keyword> is headed for your own backyard.With the US Supreme Court on the brink of overturning one of its most consequential decisions in modern history, the fight to ban and restrict abortion will move to 50 different state supreme courts scattered across the country. In a world in which Roe v. Wade is overruled, it is these <keyword id="13596805" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="state-courts" source="Orion">state courts</keyword> that often operate outside the national media spotlight that will have the last word on interpreting the right to abortion under each state's constitution. These judges, who don't get lifetime appointments like US Supreme Court justices, except in Rhode Island, are set to be the ones deciding whether to uphold or overturn slews of state-specific abortion bans and restrictions.And a quarter of these justices' jobs are on the line in 2022.In all, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/2022-midterms-over-80-state-supreme-court-seats-are-up-for-grabs-2022-4">86 state supreme court seats</a>, out of 344 total in the nation, are on the ballot in November. Elections for state supreme court justices may now be the most direct avenue for voters to shape abortion policy for a generation. "We very well may be at an inflection point for state supreme courts," Douglas Keith, counsel at the Brennan Center who studies state courts, told Insider in March."You will see increased attention and potentially a totally new dynamic around state judicial elections as a result of the US Supreme Court pushing that issue to the states," Keith said of abortion. The Supreme Court kicking abortion policy entirely into the laps of largely unknown state supreme justices would accelerate<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/state-supreme-courts-are-the-next-frontier-in-politics-2022-elections-2022-4"> the already-skyrocketing amounts of outside spending</a> and negative advertising in state supreme court races. And at least at the national level, Republicans are outgunning and outspending Democrats in those races.The Supreme Court overturning Roe is also likely to fuel state legislatures to combine new abortion bans with efforts to manipulate their court systems in their favor through<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/lawmakers-are-attacking-undermining-state-supreme-court-judges-2022-4"> partisan interference with state courts and impeachment threats against </a>judges who stand in their way. Already, Louisiana lawmakers unveiled a new abortion ban that would<a href="https://twitter.com/EthanSCorey/status/1523339036026454016"> impeach and remove judges who might rule against it</a>, just days after Politico obtained and published a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/leaked-draft-opinion-appears-scotus-could-overturn-roe-v-wade-2022-5">leaked draft opinion</a> showing the court's majority primed to strike down Roe. Already in 2022, state courts have played a crucial role in upholding abortion bans. In March, the Texas Supreme Court shut<a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2022/03/11/abortion-texas-supreme-court/"> off all possible routes for plaintiffs in state court</a> to challenge a strict "heartbeat" abortion ban, one of two in effect in the US that effectively bans the procedure after around six weeks of pregnancy. Texas' bill, enacted last fall, outsources enforcement of the ban to private citizens in a novel legal structure that <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/oklahoma-abortion-clinics-preveiw-roe-v-wade-rcna27579">Oklahoma has since replicated</a> with a bill that went into effect the day after the draft opinion leak. And<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/abortion-access-in-america-maps-charts-if-roe-falls-2018-8"> 23 states have laws on their books that would restrict abortion</a> in a post-Roe world, according to the Guttmacher Institute. They include "trigger" laws that would ban abortion as soon as Roe is overturned, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/michigan-gretchen-whitmer-sues-prevent-reinstatement-abortion-ban-2022-5">pre-Roe abortion bans</a> that are currently unenforceable but could be put back into effect, post-Roe abortion bans that are currently blocked by courts, and amendments establishing no right to abortion under state constitutions.Other states, like Florida, have abortion restrictions set to go into effect later this summer which are likely to be challenged in state courts too. <div type="image" title="A child holds a sign during an abortion-rights Mothers Day demonstration outside the U.S. Supreme Court on May 8, 2022 in Washington, DC." height="1000" width="2000" msid="91496114" hostid="261"></div><h2>The end of Roe may not save Democrats in Congress. But it could make waves in state judicial races.</h2>Democratic strategists <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-08/biden-taps-democrats-abortion-fury-with-midterm-wipeout-looming">are hoping that the Supreme Court gutting Roe</a> will be a motivating factor boosting turnout in the 2022 midterms.But the issue alone isn't guaranteed to save the party's chances of holding onto control of Congress. For starters,<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/democrats-specifics-abortion-roe-v-wade-scotus-leak-opinion-2022-5"> Democrats are already showing they have limited options to bolster abortion rights at the federal level</a>, and President Joe Biden's unpopularity, as well as voters' dissatisfaction with the economy, are also anchors weighing the party down with just six months to go before Election Day. All of those caveats aside, Democrats are also anticipating GOP-led state legislatures passing draconian abortion bans in a post-Roe world could turn elections for state-level officials like<a href="https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/717269/a-ticking-time-bomb-lingering-questions-on-abortion-access-hover-over-gubernatorial-races/?unlock=2E5HWIMIH98H72HL"> governors</a>,<a href="https://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=34ba21159848822f802af585ba049e156f7a412c76fab276ee65c4dd5a92c3713843d943b30d6a53b34700c21bba4b31"> attorneys general</a>,<a href="https://boltsmag.org/what-will-your-local-prosecutor-do-if-roe-falls/"> local prosecutors</a>, and state judges into even more red-hot political battlegrounds. The stakes are already apparent in two key presidential battleground states where Republicans control both branches of the state legislatures: Ohio and North Carolina. In both, partisan control of their state supreme courts is up for grabs in November. North Carolina now has two Democratic-controlled state supreme seats up for election. And in Ohio, which has a six-week abortion ban<a href="https://www.wtol.com/article/news/politics/state-politics/federal-judge-extends-stay-ohio-heartbeat-abortion-ban/512-9a88fc3a-d215-4f1f-99be-5e83bcbd1d21"> currently blocked in federal court</a>, three state supreme court seats — including the position of chief justice — are on the ballot. "I don't think [Republicans] understand how unpopular that's going to be among women voters, independents, Republican women in the suburbs," a Democratic campaign strategist in Ohio told Insider of the possibility of Roe being overturned. "They're not going to take that."But Republicans could just as easily be mobilized to retain or flip control of key courts that are controlled by Democrats, like North Carolina's, or have upheld abortion rights under state constitutions, like Kansas' high court. "We're going to see anti-choice groups focusing on these courts that have protected abortion rights at the state level, because that is the last barrier to criminalizing abortion," said Billy Corriher, a writer and author of "Usurpers: How Voters Stopped the GOP Takeover of North Carolina's Courts."Abortion could especially motivate conservatives to oust supreme court justices in order to reshape the court in Kansas, the site of an ongoing tug-of-war between anti-abortion groups and the Kansas Supreme Court. In August,<a href="https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article261037837.html"> voters will decide whether to pass a constitutional amendment</a> establishing no right to abortion in the state constitution, reversing a 2019 ruling from the state supreme court finding a right to abortion in the Kansas Bill of Rights. Then, six of the court's seven appointed justices will face a likely campaign to block them from another term on the bench in November. Davis Hammett, a Kansas-based activist with the progressive youth voter engagement group Loud Light, predicted that anti-abortion groups will follow the push to pass the amendment with a campaign to kick the justices off the bench. Organizations including Kansans for Life tried to do so in 2016, <a href="https://www.kcur.org/politics-elections-and-government/2016-11-09/all-kansas-supreme-court-justices-retained">but were unsuccessful.</a><div type="image" title="Abortion-rights protester Michele Pucciarelli addresses a crowd during a demonstration outside of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, Sunday, May 8, 2022" height="1000" width="2000" msid="91496115" hostid="261"></div><h2>A chance for Democrats to bolster their 'anemic' state campaign infrastructure. </h2>Democrats could seize on abortion policy being pushed to the states by directing more of their resources and political capital towards increasingly consequential state-level elections, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/18/republicans-now-enjoy-unmatched-power-states-it-was-40-year-effort/">races where Republicans have dominated for decades. </a>Gaby Goldstein, co-founder of Sister District, a group that supports progressives running for state legislatures, told Insider that many progressives view state power as "inferior" to federal power. "I think that's a terrible mistake," she said. In recent years, Democrats have begun to recognize<a href="https://www.lexisnexis.com/community/insights/legal/capitol-journal/b/state-net/posts/the-enduring-republican-grip-on-state-legislatures"> the cost of the decades-long underinvestment</a> in state-level races. In the wake of President Donald Trump's win in 2016, progressives formed groups like Sister District, Swing Left, and Run For Something, to make up the deficit by recruiting and supporting progressive candidates for state legislative seats and local offices. But the decades-long mismatch in investment at the state level, among other things, resulted in Republicans<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/11/democrats-2020-elections-state-legislatures/617047/"> locking up their gains in state legislatures in 2020</a>, even as Democrats won back control of the White House.Goldstein said that the "anemic infrastructure" when it comes to state court races on the left is due to Democrats, as a whole, lacking the same expansive and positive view of state power that conservatives hold. "We're in a big hole, and we got to get out of this hole right away," she said. The Republican State Leadership Committee, for example, has spent around $20 million<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/state-supreme-courts-are-the-next-frontier-in-politics-2022-elections-2022-4"> influencing state supreme court races</a> over the past decade, contributing to a "significant imbalance" in spending from liberals and conservative sources, Keith said. Democrats have steadily closed the gap in state supreme court races mainly with campaign spending by PACs and nonprofits at the state level. But they lack any kind of national, organized equivalent. The RSLC's counterpart, the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, is entirely focused on state legislatures and doesn't endorse or spend in state supreme court races. And while the National Democratic Redistricting Committee has spent some money influencing state supreme court races, the scope of their spending only represents a fraction of the RSLC's investments, Keith said. "It's not what a lot of organizations are built for," Goldstein said of state court races. "It's a gap in the infrastructure that we all, collectively, need to address."But 2022, Goldstein argued, poses a potentially once-in-a-generation opportunity for progressives to construct a positive narrative that centers state actors, like judges, as forces for good. "We need to redistribute the energy from almost entirely federal strategies to include robust programs at the state level," she said. <div type="image" title="Lab technician Stephannie Chaffee prepares materials that will be used to test women's blood ahead of the arrival of patients, Saturday, Oct. 9, 2021, at Hope Medical Group for Women in Shreveport, La." height="999" width="1999" msid="91496116" hostid="261"></div><h2>Abortion will put even more of a target on state judges' backs. </h2>Even if Democrats hold onto key state supreme court seats, the overturning of Roe will spur<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/lawmakers-are-attacking-undermining-state-supreme-court-judges-2022-4"> more efforts by Republican-controlled legislatures</a> to curtail state courts' ability to provide judicial review of abortion laws and target the independence of the courts. In 2021, 14 states passed 19 laws that curtail state courts' ability to rein in or strike down state laws, politicize judicial selection, and make it easier for judges to be targeted for their decisions,<a href="https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/legislative-assaults-state-courts-december-2021-update"> according to the Brennan Center</a>. On top of that, lawmakers in 10 states <a href="https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/legislative-assaults-state-courts-december-2021-update#ch4a">proposed 14 bills</a> that would outlaw abortion, prohibit state supreme courts from overturning abortion restrictions, and/or treat all state and federal court decisions upholding abortion rights as null and void, with one such bill moving out of committee in Missouri. None of those measures passed in 2021, but lawmakers could revive them in upcoming legislative sessions or include attacks on judges in new abortion bans. Already, Republican state lawmakers in Louisiana responded to the draft Supreme Court opinion leak by<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/louisiana-lawmakers-advance-bill-classifying-abortion-as-homicide-2022-5"> pushing a new, draconian bill</a> that classifies abortion as homicide, opens the door to abortion patients being charged with murder, and subjects judges who block or overturn the law to impeachment or removal from the bench."It's crucial in this moment for the public to know how important these courts are," Keith said. "No matter where you lie on the ideological spectrum, there's going to be a moment in which you are hoping that these courts are able to be independent."This is the latest story in an Insider series about state supreme courts. Read parts <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/2022-midterms-over-80-state-supreme-court-seats-are-up-for-grabs-2022-4">one</a>, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/state-supreme-courts-are-the-next-frontier-in-politics-2022-elections-2022-4">two</a>, and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/lawmakers-are-attacking-undermining-state-supreme-court-judges-2022-4">three</a> here.

Judges most Americans ignore will decide your right to abortion if Roe falls

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The <keyword id="11893011" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="supreme-court" source="Orion">Supreme Court</keyword> is releasing major <keyword id="13878202" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="decisions" source="Orion">decisions</keyword> before it wraps up its term.</li><li>The biggest decision to come involves <keyword id="11901426" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="abortion" source="Orion">abortion</keyword> rights.</li></ul>In typical Supreme Court fashion, the nine justices are releasing a slew of monumental rulings before the term wraps up and they recess for the summer.Each year, the nation's highest court reviews around 70 to 80 cases out of a pool of more than 7,000 petitions. The court usually saves the most high-profile, weighty, and politically contentious decisions for the end of the term, eyeing a late June or early July deadline.Just this week, the court handed down major decisions that deal with <keyword id="11925126" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="religion" source="Orion">religion</keyword> and <keyword id="11915773" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="guns" source="Orion">guns</keyword>. The court's 6-3 conservative majority, in each of the respective cases, expanded <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/supreme-court-religious-schools-decision-maine-scotus-first-amendment-2022-6">religious freedoms</a> and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/supreme-court-guns-decision-second-amendment-new-york-2022-6">gun rights.</a>There are <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/supreme-court-could-shake-up-the-nation-with-landmark-decisions-2022-6">still nine cases for the court to issue an opinion on.</a> The most consequential of the bunch — and the biggest challenge of this entire blockbuster term — involves <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mississippi-abortion-case-at-supreme-court-challenging-roe-v-wade-2021-11">abortion rights.</a> The <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/supreme-court-hears-biggest-abortion-challenge-to-roe-v-wade-in-decades-2021-12">state of Mississippi has asked the Supreme Court</a> to uphold a ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy and overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that legalized abortion nationwide almost 50 years ago. Other significant remaining disputes concern climate, immigration and religion. Here's how to follow the Supreme Court as it issues its final rulings of the term:<h2>When are these rulings expected?</h2>The homepage of the Supreme Court website has a calendar that marks the days <keyword id="12989578" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="opinions" source="Orion">opinions</keyword> come down. The calendar is frequently updated as the term goes on. The next decision day, according to the calendar, is Friday. However, the court does not preview the cases it's going to issues opinions on. That means it's unknown exactly when these final decisions will be released, but the expectation is before early July. <h2>Where can I find the Supreme Court rulings?</h2>On decision day, the Supreme Court posts its rulings <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/slipopinion/21">to its web page titled "Opinions of the Court." </a>Beginning at 10 a.m. ET, court watchers refresh the site to see the latest Supreme Court ruling published. SCOTUSblog, an independent law blog helmed by legal experts, usually hosts a live feed on its <a href="https://www.scotusblog.com/">website</a> on decision days and posts the rulings in near real-time along with some expert analysis. The court issues rulings in 10-minute intervals. But the court does not announce how many rulings it will release ahead of time. Court watchers have relied on a technique to determine whether the court will hand down more than one ruling in a day — looking for the "R" number.To the left of the opinion is a column titled "R" that lists the chronological number of rulings published that day. When the court posts an opinion without an "R" number, that usually means another opinion is coming. When the "R" number is filled out, that's an indication that it's the final ruling of the day.<div type="image" title="SCOTUS opinions" height="1186" width="1850" msid="92422780" hostid="261"></div><h2>How do I learn more about the case and its ruling? </h2>The Supreme Court's website has several pages to find further information about a particular <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docket.aspx">case</a>, its <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/oral_arguments.aspx">oral arguments</a>, and the legal briefs associated with it. On the opinion page, Supreme Court rulings are available to download and read in full. An opinion typically consists of three main parts: the syllabus, the majority opinion, and concurring and dissenting opinions.The opinion starts with the syllabus, which lays out the facts of the case and summarizes it.Next comes the majority opinion, which is the court's decision in the case. It's authored by one justice, whose name appears at the top of the opinion, and that justice provides an explanation for the court's decision. After that is any concurring opinions, which happens when the justices don't agree on everything. Justices who support the main ruling, but have a different reasoning for their support, usually explain that in a concurring opinion.At the end of the document are any dissenting opinions. This is an opinion written by a justice who does not support the decision and voted against it. In the opinion, the justice explains their disagreement, to which other justices can sign on to.

How to follow the Supreme Court rulings coming out on abortion, climate, immigration, and religion

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The leader of the <keyword id="13338839" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="womens-march" source="Orion">Women's March</keyword> is pushing for the removal of <keyword id="11893011" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="supreme-court" source="Orion">Supreme Court</keyword> Justice <keyword id="12074000" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="clarence-thomas" source="Orion">Clarence Thomas</keyword>.</li><li>The call for his removal comes after reports revealed his wife had sent text messages to a former aide of President Donald Trump urging him to overturn the 2020 election results.</li></ul>The leader of the Women's March has become the latest public figure to call for the impeachment of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas over his wife's texts to an aide to former President Donald Trump. Virginia "Ginni" Thomas sent dozens of texts to Mark Meadows, Trump's former chief of staff, urging him to take action to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election."Help This Great President stand firm, Mark!!!" Thomas wrote in text messages to Meadows, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/24/virginia-thomas-mark-meadows-texts/">The Washington Post</a>. "You are the leader, with him, who is standing for America's constitutional governance at the precipice. The majority knows Biden and the Left is attempting the greatest Heist of our History."Since he lost the election, Trump and his allies have made unsubstantiated claims that the election was rigged. President Joe Biden won the election, and the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ag-barr-confirms-lack-of-widespread-fraud-in-election-2020-12">Justice Department under Trump</a> said there was no evidence of widespread voter fraud as Trump claimed. And <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-campaign-lawsuits-election-results-2020-11">dozens of lawsuits filed by Trump</a> challenging the results of the 2020 election have been unsuccessful.As reports detailing Ginni's text exchange with Meadows come out, calls for Thomas' resignation have been mounting. Women's March Executive Director Rachel O'Leary Carmona called the reports "disqualifying" for both her and her husband."From the day he was nominated to the Court, Thomas has always acted less like a reasonable jurist and more like his wife — that is to say a professional conservative activist," Carmona said in a statement. "He is hopelessly compromised, conflicted, and corrupt, and he must be impeached IMMEDIATELY."<a href="https://twitter.com/jbendery/status/1507382730895597586/photo/1"></a>Ginni through her actions had "advocated for the overthrow of our democracy," Carmona's statement said.The <keyword id="11893589" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="news" source="Orion">news</keyword> of the text exchange drew calls for Thomas' impeachment because, Insider's C. Ryan Barber <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/impeach-supreme-court-justice-clarence-thomas-ginni-mark-meadows-2022-3">reported</a>, it raises ethical questions around the responsibilities of a Supreme Court Justice and those close to him.This is not the first time the Thomases have become the face of controversy for Ginni's role in attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Last month, a New York Times Magazine report <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/clarence-thomas-wife-ginni-linked-january-6-rally-overturn-election-2022-2">linked Ginni to the Capitol riot</a>, which resulted in the death of five people, including one <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-capitol-police-officer-dies-after-attempted-insurrection-2021-1">police officer</a>."LOVE MAGA people!!!! GOD BLESS EACH OF YOU STANDING UP OR PRAYING." she wrote on Facebook just ahead of the riot. She was supporting Capitol riot organizers in a peacemaker role by making sure "there wouldn't be any division around January 6," rally organizer Dustin Stockton told The Times.

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