Jude Pate is also the first justice to come from Southeast Alaska since 2013.
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Alaska doctor, once the focus of outrage, reflects on past as abortion provider, with questions
Doctor pursued unsuccessful libel case against Alaska Right to Life that touched on free speech issues.
Supreme Court rules against forward funding for education, confirms limit on legislative power
Setting multi-year budgets in Alaska requires cash on hand, justices said.
Alaska Supreme Court tosses sentence for drunk driver who killed 2 teenaged girls in 2013
Stacey Graham, now 40, swerved off a South Anchorage road and killed Jordyn Durr and Brooke McPheters, both 15, as they were walking on the sidewalk.
Constitutional convention ballot question in November becomes focus in Alaska’s abortion fight
Abortion rights supporters urge ‘no’ votes on question, while abortion opponents seek changes to constitution.
Abortion remains legal in Alaska, but some lawmakers hope a constitutional convention could change that
The Alaska Supreme Court has ruled repeatedly that abortion rights are guaranteed under the right to privacy in the state constitution.
State Supreme Court’s redistricting decision could have big implications for Alaska Senate
The state’s high court wrote that the Redistricting Board “engaged in unconstitutional political gerrymandering to increase the one group’s voting power at the expense of others.”
Alaska Supreme Court finds Republican gerrymander in Anchorage districts, orders new map
The decision almost certainly ends Alaska’s redistricting process for 2022.
Alaska’s redistricting board again gerrymandered map to benefit Republicans, judge rules
The decision will be appealed to the Alaska Supreme Court, the redistricting board’s executive director said.
Anti-abortion advocates in Alaska push for constitutional convention
Some of the more radical members of the right-to-life movement want to go further and call for a constitutional abortion ban.