Politics

Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court has “burned whatever legitimacy they may still have had” with their ruling last week overturning Roe v. Wade, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren said on Sunday. “They just took the last of it and set a torch to it,” Warren, a Democrat, told ABC “This Week” co-anchor Martha […]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Rep. Jamie Raskin, a member of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, said Sunday that criminal charges against the people involved in trying to overturn the 2020 election — including former President Donald Trump — were not his “principal interest” compared to understanding how the […]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem said Sunday that women shouldn’t be prosecuted for seeking abortions following the Supreme Court’s ruling last week overturning Roe v. Wade, which allowed state-level abortion bans in South Dakota and elsewhere to take effect. Noem, a Republican, celebrated the high court’s finding that there is no […]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — As reactions to the Dobbs decision roll in, Congressional Democrats are outraged. But don’t expect that outrage to translate to passable legislation anytime soon. Any effort to codify a woman’s right to choose would need to clear the Senate filibuster. That means 60 votes. And those votes are nowhere to be […]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Department of Homeland Security expects violence could occur “for weeks” from domestic violent extremists following the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, according to a bulletin obtained exclusively by ABC News. “We expect violence could occur for weeks following the release, particularly as DVEs may be mobilized to respond […]

Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden departs for Europe on Saturday in an effort to stave off cracks in the Western alliance against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — and shore up the global economy — amid domestic turmoil over abortions and guns. Just after a historic Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade — […]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision in a much-anticipated ruling Friday in one of its biggest decisions this term. The court voted 5-4, largely along party lines, to overturn Roe and 6-3, in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which involved Mississippi’s […]

Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Saturday signed into law the gun safety package passed by Congress this week. “Time is of the essence,” Biden said as he delivered remarks in the Roosevelt Room alongside first lady Jill Biden. “Lives will be saved.” The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act broke a nearly 30-year stalemate […]

Joe Raedle/Getty Images) (SURFSIDE, Fla.) — First lady Jill Biden spoke Friday morning at the site of the Champlain Towers South condominium collapse in Surfside, Florida, on the one-year anniversary of the tragedy. Joining Biden at the event were Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, local officials, and religious leaders. “We honor the light you found in each […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — The U.S. Supreme Court voted Friday to strike down Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that guaranteed the right to an abortion. In the 5-4 decision, the court ruled that “the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion.” Abortion laws and restrictions vary by state and, now the […]