GenBioPro, the Nevada pharmaceutical company that makes and distributes a generic version of the medication abortion drug mifepristone, has joined the Food and Drug Administration in a lawsuit to protect access to the drug that’s become a major method of ending a pregnancy in the United States.

The greatest danger to free speech in our modern era isn’t merely government’s attempts to silence dissenting voices — it’s the partisan blinders so many Americans wear when discussing the topic in the first place.

A bill that would move the celebration of Indigenous Peoples Day to the same date as Columbus Day was presented at the Nevada Legislature on Tuesday, adding to a slate of bills related to the state’s Native American communities.

Steve Wynn, who once ran big casinos, wants the US Supreme Court to take another look at the 1964 New York Times v. Sullivan ruling. This decision has protected press freedom in the US for a long time. Wynn made this request after Nevada’s highest court threw out his lawsuit against the Associated Press (AP) and a reporter named Regina Garcia Cano. He claimed the media and journalist had damaged his reputation.

Attorneys for disgraced casino mogul Steve Wynn, whose 2018 defamation case against The Associated Press (AP) was rejected last year by the Nevada Supreme Court, have petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a 60-year-old landmark case that established the actual malice rule in libel law.

Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford is joining 21 other state attorneys general in suing to block an executive order from President Donald Trump that would end birthright citizenship in the United States.

The new Supreme Court session will begin, as it always does, on the first Monday in October. As the justices take their seats come October 7, they will do so with ever fewer Americans impressed by the black robes, the Vatican-like intrigues taking place in the marble redoubt on First Street, the authoritative tone of increasingly partisan decisions that are almost impossible to reverse, no matter how infuriating or inexplicable.

Most people know at least one of the ballot questions voters will decide this fall, because it’s been something of a dividing line between Republicans and Democrats. It asks voters if they want to solidify abortion rights in the state Constitution.