An Ohio judge issued a permanent injunction on Thursday, striking down the state’s six-week abortion law as a whole while citing the state’s constitutional amendment. “Ohio voters have spoken,” Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Christian Jenkins wrote in the filing. “The Ohio Constitution now unequivocally protects the right to abortion.” “This is a momentous ruling, showing the power of Ohio’s new Reproductive Freedom Amendment in practice,” Jessie Hill, cooperating...

Former Rep. Fred Upton, one of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach then-President Donald Trump on the heels of the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot, has announced that he voted for Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential contest. Upton noted that he was “proud” to declare that he had already cast his vote for Harris. He said that he had never previously voted for...