Supreme Court

WASHINGTON — One year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and stripped women of a fundamental constitutional right, Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) called for the restoration of abortion rights and joined legislation to protect and expand access to reproductive health care, including the…

BURLINGTON, VT - Today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) held a press conference in Burlington calling for a stronger code of ethics of U.S. Supreme Court Justices. Senator Welch, a member of the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, was joined by Marilyn Skoglund,…

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) joined Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), U.S. Representative Hank Johnson (D-GA-04), and a bicameral group of colleagues last week to call for an ethics investigation into Justice Clarence Thomas’s failure to disclose luxury travel financed by Republican megadonor…