The Supreme Court’s rejection last week of the Biden administration’s appeal to weigh in on a dispute over emergency abortion care in Texas foreshadows how the next president could protect or restrict abortion access without signing — or vetoing — federal legislation.

The Supreme Court decided Monday that a court order finding Texas hospitals cannot federally be required to provide pregnancy terminations when they violate a state abortion ban will stay for now

At the heart of these cases is conservatives’ thinly evidenced claim that their religious freedom is under attack.

Last week, the Supreme Court surprised court-watchers by declining to take up an emergency abortion case out of Texas,

Native Americans, a Rastafarian prisoner and Jewish professors are among those who are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear an appeal in their cases during the 2-24-25 term.