Helen Knowles

State University of New York at Oswego

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Political Science Professor at the State University of New York at Oswego. Author of the biography The Tie Goes to Freedom: Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on Liberty

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The US Supreme Court handed down a win for abortion rights ­­voting 5-­3 to strike down a restrictive Texas abortion law that activists argued would have shut down all but a handful of…

Supreme Court strikes down Texas Abortion Restrictions

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