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Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey says her state has begun stockpiling the abortion pill in anticipation that a court-ordered injunction could pull it from the market. Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey on Monday announced her state has begun stock piling the abortion drug mifepristone ahead of a court-ordered injunction that could pull the drug from the market as early as Friday. It's a dramatic escalation in the fight over abortion rights that's pitted red states versus blue, and emboldened Democrats to look for novel ways to defy the potential nationwide injunction slated to go into effect at the end of the week. Under the governor's plan, Healy said the University of Massachusetts Amherst has already purchased 15,000 doses -- more than a year's worth of mifepristone for the state. Another $1 million from state coffers would be offered to Health care providers in the state to buy the drug before a nationwide injunction takes hold. The governor also said she will sig...

Trump unloaded on the charges against him and in the process mischaracterized aspects of the Presidential Records Act and the Espionage Act, experts said. Earlier this week, former President Donald Trump, speaking to supporters hours after his arraignment, outlined potential legal arguments as he defends himself against his second indictment. Trump took the stage at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club just hours after his appearance in a Miami courtroom, where he pleaded not guilty to 37 felony counts in relation to his alleged mishandling of classified documents. "This day will go down in infamy," he said. MORE: Following arraignment, Trump narrowing list of potential attorneys to join his legal team: Sources Trump unloaded on the charges and in the process mischaracterized aspects of the Presidential Records Act and the Espionage Act, experts told ABC News. Here's a more in-depth look at the former president's claims. He cites the Presidential Records Act ...

Biden is not looking to make Trump's indictments central to his reelection campaign, his campaign co-chair, Cedric Richmond, said on Sunday President Joe Biden is not looking to make former President Donald Trump's legal troubles central to his 2024 pitch, the co -chair of his re election campaign said Sunday. "The president has said from the beginning that he wanted an independent Justice Department ... so we're not going to comment," Cedric Richmond said in an interview with ABC "This Week" co-anchor Martha Raddatz. "We're not going to focus on Donald Trump's legal problems." Rather than Trump's charges -- including two state and two federal cases, all of which Trump denies -- Richmond said Biden will focus on what he and his team view as his legislative accomplishments and attacking the Republican field on policy issues, including abortion, Social Security and Medicare. "We will let the justice system take care of ...

Alabama voters will vote in the 2024 elections using a map that includes a second district designed to empower the state's Black voters, a federal court ruled on Thursday After a protracted legal battle that reached the U.S. Supreme Court, Alabama residents will cast ballots in the 2024 congressional elections using a map that includes a second district designed to empower Black voters, a federal court ruled on Thursday. The new order, from a three-judge panel in Alabama, determines which of three proposed maps should be used in the upcoming races. About 27% of Alabama residents are Black, according to census data. Only one of its seven House district s is currently represented by a Black lawmaker. In 2022, the state Legislature was ordered to redraw its districts to include two "in which Black voters either comprise a voting-age majority or something quite close to it," because the lawmaker-approved map likely did not comply with the Voting Rights Act by diluting Black v...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was recently acquitted by the state Senate on 16 articles of impeachment, but he still has multiple legal battles ahead Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was recently acquitted by the state Senate on 16 articles of impeachment , but the state's top lawyer still has multiple legal battles ahead. Paxton has been under an ongoing federal investigation in Texas since the fall of 2020, when the FBI began to probe allegations of abuse of office and misconduct brought by a group of whistleblowing former employees. Many of those claims, which Paxton adamantly denies, were also the focus of the impeachment proceedings. While a majority of the state House backed the articles of impeachment against Paxton, including many of his fellow Republicans, he was ultimately acquitted by the state Senate's Republican majority. State House Speaker Dade Phelan, a fellow Republican, said in a statement after Paxton's acquittal that there had been "more ...

A federal judge ruled -- again -- that Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, is illegal, but he refrained from removing people from it A federal judge in Texas on Wednesday ruled -- again -- that the federal government's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is il legal , but he refrained from taking action to remove protection s for the hundreds of thousands of young immigrants shielded under DACA. The program, which began in 2012 under the Obama administration, currently covers around 600,000 young adults, commonly referred to as "Dreamers," who were il legal ly brought to the U.S. as children. Under the program, those people have been protected from deportation and granted work authorization for the past 11 years. U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Hanen, who issued the latest ruling, previously found DACA unlawful in 2021, leading to a protracted appeals process. "The Court, as it did before, hereby stays the effective date of the vac...

Each of Trump's three indictments have landed like thunderclaps: massive, booming disruptions to the news cycle and immediate additions to historical records Each of Donald Trump's three indictments -- the latest of which came on Tuesday -- have landed like thunderclaps: massive, booming disruptions to the news cycle and immediate additions to historical records. Yet for all that noise, and how unprecedented the mounting charges against the former president are, they have so far been received in utterly familiar ways. Trump claims he is being unjustly targeted, as he did again on Tuesday, and he continues to drive conversations and dominate early primary polls in a political world remade by his rules of revenge and grievance. The Republican front-runner now faces a third set of felony indictments -- this time connected to his push to overturn his 2020 election defeat, with searing images of Jan. 6 a reminder of how close forces aligned with his interests came to succeeding. Wi...

Former President Donald Trump's team is launching a legal defense fund. Former President Donald Trump's team is launching a legal defense fund aimed at helping to handle the onslaught of legal bills the former president and his allies face as the investigations into him mount, sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News. On Sunday, ABC News reported that a super PAC supporting Trump spent more than $40 million on legal costs in the first half of 2023 to defend Trump, his advisers and others, sources familiar with a filing detailing the costs told ABC. The filing from the Save America PAC is expected to be released on Monday. MORE: Trump says he's 'more committed' than ever as he holds first 2024 campaign events For now, the legal fund is not meant to cover Trump's own bills, the sources said. The legal defense fund will be called the Patriot Legal Defense Fund Inc., the sources said. It is expected to be led by Michael Glassner, who has previously s...