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<p>Mexico’s highest court has struck down as unconstitutional two provisions of state law that set criminal penalties for women who sought abortions, as well as anyone who causes a woman to have the procedure without her consent.</p>

<p>The court’s unanimous decision undoes a Coahuila state law that imposed prison sentences of up to three years for women who underwent a procedure to terminate a pregnancy, as well as health care providers who performed such a procedure without the woman’s consent.</p>

Guest Editorial:
By Andrew Cohen
Brennan Center for Justice

The law may sometimes lie in suspended animation — like it is now, today over voting rights — but politics always moves relentlessly ahead.

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<strong>Scripps Howard Foundation Wire</strong></p>
<p><strong>WASHINGTON</strong> – The Supreme Court will consider eliminating a key provision in the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a pivotal piece of legislation that has outlawed discriminatory acts against minority voters for nearly 50 years.</p>

Commentary:
By Rodolfo F. Acuña

The day the Supreme Court handed down its decision Arizona’s SB 1070, I received about a dozen text messages saying, “We won!”

Knowing the history of the Court and dealing with this sort of wrongheaded thinking since the Bakke Case of 1978, I knew that I had to be skeptical and quickly read the incoming news, which using boxing jargon said that it was a split decision, that the court had struck down three key provisions of the law and kept one.

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<strong>New America Media</strong></p>
<p><strong>PHOENIX, Ariz.</strong> – Lawmakers on both sides of the political divide in Arizona are claiming victory following Monday’s Supreme Court ruling on the state’s immigration law known as SB 1070.</p>

Supreme Court Immigration Ruling strips 50 million Chicanos/Latinos of Rights!

Immigration or a Historical Labor Issue?

Commentary:
By Herman Baca
President Committee on Chicano Rights