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President Joe Biden speaks on the Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action in college admissions in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Thursday, June 29, 2023, in Washington. As Biden heads into 2024, he’s not only running against the Republicans who control the legislative branch, he’s also running against conservatives who dominate the co-equal judicial branch. It’s a subtle, but significant, shift in approach toward the nation’s highest court — treating it more like a political entity. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Stymied by the Supreme Court, Biden wants voters to have the final say on his agenda

By Colleen Long and Zeke Miller - Associated Press

Former President Donald Trump speaks during the Faith & Freedom Coalition Policy Conference in Washington, Saturday, June 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

‘I got it done’: Trump boasts to religious right about his personal role in overturning Roe v. Wade

By Valerie Richardson and Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Supporters cheer up as Vice President Kamala Harris gives remarks at the Women's March in Los Angeles Saturday, April 15, 2023. One year ago, the U.S. Supreme Court rescinded a five-decade-old right to abortion, prompting a seismic shift in debates about politics, values, freedom and fairness. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

One year after the anti-abortion ruling, the White House keeps a spotlight on the issue

By Chris Megerian - Associated Press

Former President Donald Trump speaks at his Mar-a-Lago estate Tuesday, April 4, 2023, in Palm Beach, Fla. A special prosecutor has ended his four-year investigation into possible FBI misconduct in its probe of ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. The report Monday, May 15, from special counsel John Durham offers withering criticism of the bureau but a meager court record that fell far short of the former president’s prediction he would uncover the “crime of the century.” (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Republican presidential hopefuls keep voters guessing on abortion issue

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Demonstrators protest outside the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., on May 3, 2022, in response to the news that the U.S. Supreme Court could be poised to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide. A Wisconsin judge is set to consider Thursday, May 4, 2023, whether the state's attorney general can legally challenge the battleground state's 174-year-old abortion ban and whether the ban is so old its unenforceable. (Amber Arnold/Wisconsin State Journal via AP, File)

Wisconsin judge to hear first arguments in abortion lawsuit

By Todd Richmond - Associated Press

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis answers questions from the media in the Florida Cabinet following his State of the State address during a joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives on March 7, 2023, at the state Capitol in Tallahassee, Fla. The Republican-dominated Florida Legislature on Thursday, April 13, approved a ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, a proposal supported by DeSantis as he prepares for an expected presidential run. (AP Photo/Phil Sears, File)

On cusp of presidential run, Florida Gov. DeSantis signs ban on abortion after 6 weeks

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

The Supreme Court is seen on Feb. 21, 2023, in Washington. The Supreme Court on Monday, April 3, declined to hear an appeal from a Louisiana death row inmate seeking a new sentencing hearing, over a dissent from the three liberal justices. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

Abortion issue returns to Supreme Court as DOJ fights ruling on FDA’s pill approval

By Alex Swoyer and Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Bottles of the drug misoprostol sit on a table at the West Alabama Women's Center, March 15, 2022, in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Misoprostol induces uterus contractions that expel an embryo or fetus and other tissue. A federal judge in Texas will hear arguments Wednesday, March 15, 2023, in a high-stakes court case that could threaten access to abortion medication and blunt the authority of U.S. drug regulators. The lawsuit from Christian conservatives aimed at overturning the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion pill mifepristone. The drug, when used with a second pill, misoprostol, has become the most common method of abortion in the U.S. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed, File)

Supreme Court likely will allow states to restrict abortion drugs

By Sarah Parshall Perry

Erik Baptist, right, and other legal team members with Alliance Defending Freedom exit the federal court building on Wednesday, March 15, 2023, in Amarillo, Texas, where a federal judge is expected to hear arguments in a lawsuit that takes aim at medication abortions. Pills are the the most common method for obtaining an abortion in the U.S. (AP Photo/David Erickson)

Texas judge hears arguments in challenge to FDA’s approval of abortion drug

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

FILE - Speaker of the Assembly Robin Vos watches as Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers speaks during the State of the State address, Jan. 24, 2023, in Madison, Wis. Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature unveiled a bill Wednesday, March 15, that would create rape and incest exceptions to the state's 1849 abortion ban and clarify when abortions that would be allowed to protect the health of the mother. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, file)

Wisconsin Republicans propose abortion ban exceptions

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

Brass markers, marking the state line between Bristol, Tenn. and Bristol, Va., line State Street in Bristol, Va., on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023. Residents in southwestern Virginia have battled for months over whether abortion clinics limited by strict laws in other states should be allowed to hop over the border and operate there. Similar scenarios are beginning to play out in communities along state lines around the country since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. (AP Photo/Earl Neikirk)

Abortion clinics crossing state borders not always welcome

By Kimberlee Kruesi, Sarah Rankin and Hilary Powell - Associated Press

People participate in the March for Life rally in front of the Washington Monument, Friday, Jan. 20, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Pro-lifers debate moving annual D.C. march to June in celebration of Dobbs decision

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on March 16, 2022. Attorney generals in 20 conservative-led states warned CVS and Walgreens on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023, that they could face legal consequences if they sell abortion pills by mail in those states. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed, File)

Texas lawsuit could push abortion pill off the market

By Lindsay Whitehurst - Associated Press

Light illuminates part of the Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Federal judge suggests national right to abortion exists after Supreme Court ruling

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Surrounded by DFL legislators, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz holds up a bill he signed that adds a "fundamental right" to abortion access into state law in St. Paul, Minn., on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. Behind him, from left to right, are first lady Gwen Walz, Tim Stanley of Planned Parenthood and Rep. Carlie Kotyza-Witthuhn, DFL-Eden Prairie. Walz's signature makes Minnesota the sixteenth state to spell out a right to abortion access in its law books or constitution, and the first state Legislature to take such action since Roe v. Wade was overturned in June 2022. (Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune via AP)

Minnesota Gov. Walz signs abortion bill decried by GOP as most ‘extreme’ in nation

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Anti-abortion advocates listen to various speakers during the Emergency Pro-Life Rally for New Mexico in Las Cruces, N.M., on Tuesday, July 19, 2022. Anti-abortion activists from across the country converged in southern New Mexico on Tuesday to protest relocation plans by the Mississippi clinic at the center of the court battle that overturned Roe v. Wade, but New Mexico's governor vowed not to back down from her support for access to abortions. (Meg Potter/The Las Cruces Sun News via AP)

Pro-lifers push for near-total abortion ban in state protests

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

Pennsylvania pro-life activist Mark Houck, shown with his wife Ryan-Marie Houck and their seven children, was arrested in an FBI raid on his home Sept. 23, 2022, for alleged violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. (Photo courtesy of Thomas More Society) **FILE**

Justice Dept. brings pro-life activist Mark Houck to trial amid claims of abortion double standard

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Former President Donald Trump walks to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on Jan. 12, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Pro-life leaders say Trump will have to earn back their vote after comments about abortion opponents

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

With the U.S. Capitol in the background, anti-abortion demonstrators march toward the U.S. Supreme Court during the March for Life, Friday, Jan. 20, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Thousands protest abortion in first March for Life after Supreme Court’s rejection of Roe

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

People participate in the March for Life outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 21, 2022. The annual March for Life will be held Friday, Jan. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

March for Life returns to D.C. with new post-Roe v. Wade focus

By Ashraf Khalil - Associated Press