U.S. Supreme Court

JD Vance may have been rising in the polls before election day, but it was former President Trump’s endorsement and one big super PAC contribution that put him over the top. In this week's episode of Snollygoster, Ohio's politics podcast from WOSU, hosts Mike Thompson and Steve Brown discuss the race for Ohio's open Senate seat and the other primary results.

We discuss the future of abortion rights and how Ohio is readying for a likely reversal of Roe v. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court.

If confirmed, she would be the first Black woman to serve on the nation's highest court, and she would be one of four women on the court, the largest number ever to serve at one time.

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments earlier this week on a case that could severely curtail the E.P.A.’s ability to address climate change. We discuss that and an exhaustive report released by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on climate change that among other findings, said that as climate change worsens, humanity risks running into hard limits on our ability to cope.

After much encouragement from the left, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer announced he would retire. President Biden reiterated his campaign pledge to name the first black woman to the court and said he hopes to have a new justice confirmed by the end of February.

Ohio and 26 other Republican-led states have sued to stop the mandates, saying OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, is overstepping its authority.

While anti-abortion advocates are celebrating the possibility of the US Supreme Court returning abortion to the states to regulate, DeWine is more cautious, saying what Ohio does might not matter if abortion is still accessible in other states.

The fate of abortion in the U.S. appears to be on shaky ground as a divided Supreme Court weighs a Mississippi law. A decision in the case is expected by summer.

At issue is whether to reverse the court's nearly half-century-old decision, Roe v. Wade, and subsequent decisions declaring that women have a constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy.

The Supreme Court won’t hear a lawsuit challenging the makeup of the Ohio Elections Commission.