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The U.S. Supreme Court has set the date it will hear new arguments in a Louisiana case that could have ripple effects for congressional redistricting around the country.

The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear the appeal of a former Louisiana prison inmate whose dreadlocks were cut off by prison guards in violation of his religious beliefs.

Louisiana’s near-total ban on abortions is — once again — on hold after a judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking the law from being enforced until a hearing takes place.

Hundreds of protestors took to New Orleans streets on a sweltering Friday evening — joining dozens of cities across the nation that saw demonstrators pour into the streets — after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, striking down the constitutional right to abortion. As of the ruling, virtually all abortion procedures in the state of Louisiana are illegal.

Louisiana’s three abortion clinics have stopped providing the procedure as of Friday, following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case that overturned Roe. v Wade.

Hundreds of demonstrators for and against abortion rights protested in front of the U.S. Supreme Court steps in Washington D.C. as nine justices heard arguments for a Mississippi abortion ban case that could have monumental stakes for the Gulf South and the nation.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a suit stemming from a 15-week abortion ban passed in Mississippi in 2018. The case will be streamed at 9 a.m. CT.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a case that could reshape the right to abortion in America called Dobbs vs. Jackson Women's Health Organization. Host Karen Brown spoke with two journalists who have followed the case closely.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled it would not apply a 2020 ban on future non-unanimous jury verdicts in felony cases retroactively, leaving incarcerated people in Louisiana, Oregon and Puerto Rico convicted by divided juries without a sure-fire way to seek retrial.

Louisiana native Judge Amy Coney Barrett is poised to deliver a long-sought, solidified conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court that could set the…