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Added on the 10/04/2023 20:41:45 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Images of the US Supreme Court as justices decide to preserve access to the abortion pill, pending appeal. IMAGES
Assange supporters demonstrate in front of London's Royal Courts of Justice as the US government won an appeal against a London court ruling that had blocked the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from Britain. IMAGES
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says he will not allow the European Court of Human Rights to block the government's planned policy of deporting migrants to Rwanda. Speaking after the UK Supreme Court ruled the policy unlawful, he says he will introduce "emergency legislation" to designate Rwanda a safe country. "If the (European Court of Human Rights) chooses to intervene against the express wishes of parliament, I am prepared to do what is necessary to get the flights off" he says. SOUNDBITE
People gather outside the J. Marvin Jones Federal Building and Mary Lou Robinson U.S. Courthouse in Amarillo, Texas where a federal judge will hear arguments in a court case that could undo the approval of the prescription drug mifepristone, a widely used abortion pill. IMAGES
"This is a tremendously historic day in the White House and in the country and this is a fulfillment of a promise the president made to the country," White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki tells reporters after the Senate confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman ever to serve on the Supreme Court. SOUNDBITE