WASHINGTON, July 1 -- Planned Parenthood South Atlantic issued the following news release on June 30, 2025: * * * "Tangible Harm to Real People" What the Medina v. PPSAT Decision Means For Patients WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In case you missed it, last week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision in Medina vs. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic that Medicaid patients cannot sue to enforce their right to see the provider of their choice. According to the Court, lawmakers can impose their perso more PR

WASHINGTON, July 1 -- The American Action Forum issued the following commentary on June 29, 2025: * * * TikTok Legal Purgatory By Jeffrey Westling Executive Summary * Last week, President Trump announced a third enforcement deferment of a federal law banning the social media application TikTok, despite the law lacking provisions granting the president the authority to do so more than once. * The deferment of enforcement, and Congress' acquiescence to that deferment, presents two very tro more PR

WASHINGTON, July 1 -- The Capital Research Center issued the following commentary on June 30, 2025: * * * Improving Union Annual Reporting By Michael Watson Since the passage of the 1959 Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA), most labor unions have been required to file annual financial reports to the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Labor-Management Standards. Since the George W. Bush administration made the forms more comprehensive, they have proved essential to trackin more PR

NEW YORK, July 1 -- Common Cause - New York issued the following news release on June 30, 2025: * * * Major Supreme Court Case Could Eliminate Final Guardrails On Money In Politics Washington, D.C. - Today, the Supreme Court announced it will consider whether political parties and their candidates can coordinate their spending during elections. The decision to take up this case is the latest in a long string of campaign finance cases since Citizens United v. FEC that have undermined basic saf more PR

WASHINGTON, June 27 -- The Congressional Black Caucus issued the following news release: * * * Congressional Black Caucus Statement on SCOTUS Ruling to Limit Federal Judges' Ability to Block Executive Actions Nationwide Today, Congressional Black Caucus Chair Yvette D. Clarke (NY-09) and members of the Congressional Black Caucus issued the following statement: "By limiting the federal judiciary's ability to issue nationwide injunctions against the Trump Administration's extremist and authori more PR

WASHINGTON, June 27 -- The Congressional Hispanic Caucus issued the following news release: * * * Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chairman Blasts the Supreme Court Decision on Birthright Citizenship Case That Attacks the Rule of Law Washington, D.C. - The Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), Rep. Adriano Espaillat (NY-13), issued the following statement regarding the heinous Supreme Court decision that sets the country on a path to strip away birthright citizenship for U.S. born ch more PR

WASHINGTON, June 26 -- Rep. Ralph Norman, R-South Carolina, issued the following news release: * * * Congressman Norman Applauds SCOTUS Decision - Medina v. Planned Parenthood The U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark6-3 decisioninMedina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, affirming that Medicaid patientsdo not have a private right of actionunder Sec.1983 to force a state to include any specific provider--such as Planned Parenthood--in its Medicaid program. This ruling empowers states to de more PR

WASHINGTON, June 30 -- Rep. Lizzie Fletcher, D-Texas, issued the following news release: * * * Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher and Congresswoman Marilyn Strickland Reintroduce Bill To Assist Travel for Abortion Care * Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) and Congresswoman Marilyn Strickland (WA-10) reintroduced the Reproductive Health Travel Fund Act to establish a grant program to help ease the financial burden of women and families being forced to travel, sometimes long distances, to more PR

WASHINGTON, July 1 -- The Council for Innovation Promotion issued the following news release on June 30, 2025: * * * Council for Innovation Promotion Cautions Congress Against a Moratorium on State-Level AI Regulations The Senate has started its marathon voting session on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which currently includes a moratorium on state-level regulations of artificial intelligence technologies. Frank Cullen, executive director of the Council for Innovation Promotion (C4IP), rele more PR

SACRAMENTO, California, June 30 [Category: Law/Legal] -- The Pacific Legal Foundation issued the following news release: * * * Court vindicates protections against NJ's tax theft scheme * East Orange, New Jersey; June 30, 2025: A former East Orange property owner is celebrating after a New Jersey court ruled the City violated her rights by taking the equity she had in her commercial property. When Lynette Johnson accidentally fell behind on her property taxes, the City placed a lien on the p more PR

WASHINGTON, July 1 -- The Immigration Reform Law Institute issued the following news release on June 30, 2025: * * * Victory! DC Circuit Vacates Injunction Against Immigration Arrests by U.S. Marshals IRLI had argued for validity of arrests * WASHINGTON--The DC Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a ruling vacating a lower court's injunction ordering United States Marshals not to arrest illegal aliens for being in the country unlawfully. The Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) had filed  more PR

WASHINGTON, June 30 -- The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee posted the following news release: * * * DCCC, DSCC, and DNC Granted Motion to Intervene at the U.S. Supreme Court to Block Trump and Republicans' Attempt to Rewrite Election Laws * Today, the U.S. Supreme Court granted review in National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission and granted a motion to intervene by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), the Democratic Senatorial Camp more PR

WASHINGTON, June 30 -- The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee posted the following news release: * * * DSCC, DNC, and DCCC Granted Motion to Intervene at the U.S. Supreme Court to Block Trump and Republicans' Attempt to Rewrite Election Laws * Today, the U.S. Supreme Court granted review in National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission and granted a motion to intervene by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC), the Democratic Congressional Campaig more PR

WASHINGTON, June 30 -- The U.S. Department of Energy issued the following news release: * * * Energy Secretary Announces Updated NEPA Procedures to End Permitting Paralysis and Unleash American Energy * WASHINGTON-- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced new updates to the Department's National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) procedures, fixing the broken permitting process and delivering on President Trump's pledge to unleash American energy dominance and accelerate critical en more PR

SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, June 30 -- The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation posted the following news release: * * * Evansville Electrician Files Federal Charges Against IBEW Local 16 for Union Bosses' $1.29 Million Retaliatory 'Fine' * Electrician validly resigned union membership and left union to purchase a non-union electrical firm, but union used sham proceeding to levy massive fine Evansville, IN (June 30, 2025) - Brian Head, an Evansville-based electrician, has just filed f more PR

WASHINGTON, June 30 -- Rep. Randy Feenstra, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: * * * Feenstra Issues Statement Expressing Disappointment in Supreme Court Decision Not to Hear Case against California's Proposition 12 * HULL, IOWA - Today, U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra (R-Hull) issued the following statement expressing his disappointment in the U.S. Supreme Court's decision not to hear the Iowa Pork Producers' case against California's Proposition 12: "I am very disappointed that the U.S. more PR

WASHINGTON, June 26 -- Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following opening statement at a judicial nominations hearing: * * * On today's agenda, we have seven nominations. The nomination of Kurt Wall to be U.S. Attorney is listed for the first time and will be held over. We'll vote today on Whitney Hermandorfer, nominee to be a circuit judge on the Sixth Circuit, Joshua Divine to be a district judge on the Eastern and Western Districts more PR

WASHINGTON, June 25 -- Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following opening statement at a hearing on judicial nominations for the Third Circuit and Florida district courts: * * * Good morning, I'd like to welcome everyone to today's hearing. Our first panel features Emil Bove, nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Then, on panel two, we'll hear from four district court nominees: Anne-Leigh Gaylord Moe, Kyle Dude more PR

WASHINGTON, June 25 -- Rep. Glenn Grothman , R-Wisconsin, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services, issued the following news release: * * * Grothman Opens Hearing on Combatting DEI WASHINGTON--Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services Chairman Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) delivered opening remarks today at a hearing on "Sacrificing Excellence for Ideology: The Real Cost of DEI." In his opening statement, Subcommittee Chairma more PR

WASHINGTON, June 27 -- The Heritage Foundation issued the following news release: * * * Heritage Expert: SCOTUS Misses Opportunity, Lets Congress Delegate Its Taxing WASHINGTON--The Heritage Foundation today released the following statement in response to the Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling in Federal Communications Commission v. Consumers' Research, determining that Congress can delegate its taxing power to an executive branch agency. Jack Fitzhenry, a legal fellow in the Edwin Meese III Cente more PR

WASHINGTON, June 27 -- The Heritage Foundation issued the following news release: * * * Heritage Experts Laud Supreme Court Decision Curbing Nationwide Injunction WASHINGTON--The Heritage Foundation today released the following statements lauding the Supreme Court's 6-3 decision in Trump v. CASA, Inc., which partially stayed several nationwide injunctions issued by lower courts against the Trump administration's Jan. 20 executive order ending universal birthright citizenship. Hans von Spak more PR

WASHINGTON, June 30 -- George Washington University posted the following news: * * * High Court Ruling Protects Access to Preventive Care * On June 27, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a 6-3 ruling in Kennedy v. Braidwood Management, Inc., upholding the constitutionality of the provision of the Affordable Care Act that mandates cost-free insurance coverage of preventive services recommended by the United States Preventive Services Task Force. The ACA extends this benefit to virtually all more PR

SAN DIEGO, California, June 30 [Category: Health Care] -- The American Public Health Association posted the following news release: * * * High Court Ruling Protects Access to Preventive Care * On June 27, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a 6-3 ruling in Kennedy v. Braidwood Management, Inc., upholding the constitutionality of the provision of the Affordable Care Act that mandates cost-free insurance coverage of preventive services recommended by the United States Preventive Services Task  more PR

CANOGA PARK, California, July 1 -- The Free Speech Coalition issued the following news: * * * In Radical Decision, Supreme Court Rules Age Verification Constitutional Legal In a radical departure from precedent, the Supreme Court affirmed the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, ruling that online age-verification for material "harmful to minors" is constitutional and potentially granting the government wide power to limit access to the internet. "This  more PR

DES MOINES, Iowa, June 30 -- Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird issued the following news release: * * * Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird Releases Statement Regarding SCOTUS Decision on Prop. 12 * Today, Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird released the following statement: "I am disappointed with the Supreme Court's decision to not hear the Iowa Pork Producers' case to stop California's mandate against Iowa farmers. I will continue to fight for our producers and farmers in the active challen more PR

WASHINGTON, June 25 -- Rep. John B. Larson, D-Connecticut, ranking member of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security, issued the following opening statement at a Social Security and Worker and Family Support joint subcommittee hearing with Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano: * * * (As prepared for delivery) Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good to see you again, Commissioner. Let's cut to the chase. Your attendance today stands in stark contrast to our attempts to get more PR

WASHINGTON, June 30 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Lujan, Fischer Statement on Supreme Court Ruling on Universal Service Fund * Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM), Ranking Member of the Senate Telecommunications and Media Subcommittee, and Deb Fischer (R-NE), Chair of the Senate Telecommunications and Media Subcommittee, released the following statement after the United States Supreme Court issued a ruling on the Univer more PR

WASHINGTON, July 1 -- Stand Up America, an organization was born in 2016 as a digital-first grassroots community working to resist what they say is Donald Trump's corruption, racism and his threats to democracy, issued the following news release on June 30, 2025: * * * MAGA JUSTICES FLIRT WITH OPENING THE FLOODGATES TO UNLIMITED MONEY IN OUR ELECTIONS EVEN WIDER WASHINGTON, D.C. --Today, the Supreme Court announced it will hear a case brought by J.D. Vance and other Republicans that could eli more PR

WASHINGTON, June 30 [Category: ThinkTank] -- Common Cause posted the following news release: * * * Major Supreme Court Case Could Eliminate Final Guardrails On Money In Politics * Washington, D.C. - Today, t he Supreme Court announced it will consider whether political parties and their candidates can coordinate their spending during elections. The decision to take up this case is the latest in a long string of campaign finance cases since Citizens United v. FEC that have undermined basic sa more PR

NEW YORK, June 30 -- New York City Mayor Eric Adams issued the following news: * * * Mayor Adams Makes Six Judicial Appointments * NEW YORK - New York City Mayor Eric Adams today announced six new judicial appointments -- two appointments to Criminal Court and four appointments to Civil Court. "It is my honor to appoint six distinguished New Yorkers to serve as judges in Criminal and Civil Court as they help make New York City safer and the best place to raise a family," said Mayor Adams. " more PR

LANSING, Michigan, June 30 -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following news release: * * * Michigan Supreme Court Declines to Hear Appeal in Burkman and Wohl Voter Intimidation Robocall Case * LANSING - On Friday, the Michigan Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of a lower court decision that upheld the criminal charges against Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl, announced Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel. In December of 2024, the Michigan Court of Appeals upheld the cri more PR

WASHINGTON, June 30 -- Sen. Christopher Murphy, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: * * * Murphy on Meet the Press: Nobody Is Asking for 16 Million People to Lose Their Health Care Just So the Corporations and the Very Rich Can Get a New Tax Cut * WASHINGTON-- U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Sunday joined NBC's Meet the Press with Kristen Welker to discuss Senate Republicans' efforts to ram through a bill that kicks millions of Americans off their health care in the dead more PR

WASHINGTON, July 1 -- New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez issued a statement expressing disappointment with the Supreme Court's decision to allow the President's executive order limiting birthright citizenship.  * * * Here is the text of the statement: "While we are disappointed that the Supreme Court has allowed the President's unconstitutional executive order limiting birthright citizenship to be enforced in certain parts of the country, New Mexicans should take comfort in the fact tha more PR

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, June 30 [Category: Pharmaceuticals] -- The National Community Pharmacists Association issued the following news release: * * * NCPA Laments SCOTUS Decision to Punt on Oklahoma PBM Reform * The National Community Pharmacists Association today issued a statement on behalf of CEO B. Douglas Hoey on the U.S. Supreme Court's decision not to review a pharmacy benefit manager reform case out of Oklahoma:  "After the historic Rutledge v. PCMA unanimous Supreme Court decision  more PR

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, July 1 -- Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond issued the following news release: * * * Drummond touts Supreme Court wins on birth certificates and Title X OKLAHOMA CITY (June 30, 2025) - Attorney General Gentner Drummond is applauding two orders the U.S. Supreme Court issued today in his favor, including one relating to so-called "non-binary" birth certificates. The other involves a dispute that began when the Biden Administration denied millions in federal fun more PR

MANILA, Philippines, June 30 -- The Supreme Court of the Philippines issued the following news release: * * * SC: Rape Not Qualified in Case of Adoptive Relatives Under Old Law The Supreme Court (SC) has ruled that a child's rape by her adoptive uncle does not warrant a harsher penalty because they are not related. However, recent adoption laws enacted after the crime now recognize the relationship between an adoptee and their adoptive relatives and may qualify the crime. In a Decision writ more PR

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, July 1 (TNSrpt) -- Rutgers University issued the following news: * * * Americans Largely Disapprove of Attacks on Science and Medicine, Survey Finds By Greg Bruno Government cuts to budgets and workforces, cancellation of research grants and pausing of public health information dissemination are among the most condemned actions Americans disapprove of the Trump administration's policies targeting science and medicine by a margin of more than 2-to-1, according to a more PR

HERNDON, Virginia, June 30 [Category: Transportation] -- The RV Industry Association posted the following news: * * * Latest Tariff Developments * To see a comprehensive list of what tariffs are currently enacted, view our tariff tracker chart, which provides an easy-to-read overview of tariff impacts by country. View the Tariff Tracker Update-Monday, June 30, 2025: White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said Monday that U.S.-Canada trade talks will resume immediate more PR

WASHINGTON, June 30 [Category: Political] -- Public Citizen issued the following news release: * * * SCOTUS Must Rule to Cap Political Party Campaign Spending to Prevent Further Corruption * WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the U.S. Supreme Court granted a petition to hear a case challenging the constitutionality of the federal limit on campaign spending coordination between political parties and candidates. This limit was passed by Congress in 1971 to guard against the corrupting effect of large  more PR

WASHINGTON, July 1 -- New America Open Technology Institute issued the following statement on June 30, 2025: * * * SCOTUS' Decision to Uphold the Texas Age Verification Law Jeopardizes Everyone's Online Privacy and Security, Says OTI WASHINGTON--In response to the Supreme Court's decision to uphold a Texas law that requires certain websites to verify age, the Open Technology Institute (OTI), a New America program fostering equitable access to digital technology and its benefits, issued the fo more PR

WASHINGTON, June 26 -- Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Illinois, ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Healthcare and Financial Services, issued the following news release: * * * Subcommittee Democrats Denounce Republican Attacks on Civil Rights, Freedom, Progress, and Equality Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Healthcare and Financial Services, led Subcommittee Democrats in denouncing Republicans' efforts to politicize diversity more PR

SAN DIEGO, California, June 30 [Category: Health Care] -- The American Public Health Association posted the following news release: * * * Supreme Court Ruling on Planned Parenthood Threatens Access to Health Care * On June 26, the Supreme Court of the United States decided Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, a case involving whether Medicaid beneficiaries can sue in federal court when a state limits their freedom to choose a qualified provider, as required by the Medicaid statute.  more PR

WASHINGTON, June 30 -- George Washington University posted the following news: * * * Supreme Court's Ruling on Planned Parenthood Threatens Access to Health Care * On June 26, the Supreme Court of the United States decided Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, a case involving whether Medicaid beneficiaries can sue in federal court when a state limits their freedom to choose a qualified provider, as required by the Medicaid statute. The Court held that Medicaid's free choice of provi more PR

WASHINGTON, June 30 -- The U.S. Department of Education issued the following news release: * * * Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism Letter to Harvard University * Today, the Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism sent the following letter to Harvard University: Dear Dr. Garber, Harvard holds the regrettable distinction of being among the most prominent and visible breeding ground for race discrimination, as the Supreme Court noted in Students for Fair Admission v. Harvard, 600 U.S. 181 (2023 more PR

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, July 1 -- Faegre Drinker Biddle and Reath, a law firm, issued the following commentary: * * * Texas Federal District Court Invalidates the HIPAA Reproductive Health Rule Covered Entities Shall Still Comply With HIPAA's Privacy Rule Authors: Doriann H. Cain , Charles E. Westerhaus At a Glance * A federal district court recently vacated a newly established Health and Human Services (HHS) final rule centered on increasing the regulation of privacy protections for repro more PR

WASHINGTON, June 30 [Category: Animals] -- The Center for a Humane Economy posted the following news release: * * * U.S. Supreme Court Swats Away Pork Industry's Latest Challenge to Proposition 12 * WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to accept a petition for certiorari from the Iowa Pork Producers Council, marking the latest -- and perhaps final -- judicial defeat for the pork industry in its years-long campaign to overturn California's Proposition 12, a landmark anim more PR

DOWNERS GROVE, Illinois, June 28 -- The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy issued the following news: * * * U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Preventive Services Coverage: A Win for CRC Screening Access On June 27, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in Kennedy v. Braidwood Management, upholding the Affordable Care Act (ACA) provision that requires most private insurers to cover preventive services recommended by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) without cost-sharing more PR

WASHINGTON, June 30 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation issued the following news release: * * * U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy Unveils Sweeping Updates to NEPA at USDOT to Fast Track Roads, Bridges, & Other Key Infrastructure * Reducing and clarifying regulatory hurdles will clear the way for economic growth WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy today released three sets of landmark revisions to the Department's National Environmental Policy Act more PR

WASHINGTON, July 1 -- The White House issued the following fact sheet on June 30, 2025: * * * President Trump Is Delivering Historic Permitting Wins Across the Federal Government ACCOMPLISHING PERMITTING REFORM IN RECORD TIME: Today, President Donald J. Trump delivered on his promise to fix a broken permitting system, ensuring that burdensome Federal environmental reviews cannot be weaponized to stall the growth of the American economy or halt energy infrastructure construction. * The White  more PR