“‘Slouching Toward Gilead’: Surveying legislative assaults on the right to choose and what guides the chief justice’s thinking about abortion.” One week ago today, Slate posted online this new installment of its “Amicus” podcast featuring Dahlia Lithwick.

Lithwick’s guests were law professor Melissa Murray and Joan Biskupic of CNN.

“What’s going on with the abortion laws? A state-by-state look; A wave of laws passed in 2019 puts a new spotlight on one of the most divisive issues in America.” Jiachuan Wu and Daniel Arkin of NBC News have this interactive report.

“Oregon Supreme Court throws out nearly 67-year sentences for 15-year-old twins who killed elderly couple in Salem”: Maxine Bernstein of The Oregonian has this report on two rulings (here and here) that the Supreme Court of Oregon issued on Friday.

“In Allentown case, state Supreme Court says police can’t search suspects just because they’re armed”: Peter Hall of The Morning Call of Allentown, Pennsylvania has this report.

Friday’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania consisted of a majority opinion and two concurring opinions (here and here).

“Why Mitch McConnell Outmaneuvers Democrats at Filling the Supreme Court”: Jeffrey Toobin has this post online at The New Yorker.

“For women in Mass. on front lines of the fight to dismantle Roe v. Wade, hope mixes with skepticism”: Deanna Pan has this article in today’s edition of The Boston Globe.

And in commentary, online at The Boston Globe, columnist Yvonne Abraham has an essay titled “A horror informed by the years before Roe v. Wade.”

“The Supreme Court is deciding a gerrymandering case. Here’s the social science that the justices need to know. Evidence shows that partisan gerrymandering is undermining democratic representation. But it can be diagnosed.” Chris Warshaw has this entry at the “Monkey Cage” blog of The Washington Post.

“Congress Weighs Whether to Allow Guantánamo Prisoners to Travel to the U.S. for Medical Care”: Carol Rosenberg will have this article in Sunday’s edition of The New York Times.

And in Wednesday’s edition of that newspaper, Rosenberg had an article headlined “Former Navy Judge Named to Oversee Guantánamo Military Court.”

“Clarence Thomas’s Dangerous Idea: Does anything link the eugenics of the past to abortion today?” Columnist Ross Douthat will have this op-ed in Sunday’s edition of The New York Times.