“Challenging Unconstitutional Civil Liability Schemes, as to Abortion, Speech, Guns, Etc.; By and large, those schemes (like Texas’s SB 8 liability for abortion providers) must be fought by raising the Constitution as a defense in a civil lawsuit — not through preenforcement challenges”: Eugene Volokh has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“Texas Abortion Case Highlights Concern Over Supreme Court’s ‘Shadow Docket’; A process intended to help the court deal with emergency petitions and routine matters has grown into a backdoor way of making major policy decisions”: Charlie Savage had this article in Friday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Mississippi District Attorney Doug Evans Sued for Engineering the Wrongful Prosecution of Curtis Flowers; The landmark lawsuit was brought on behalf of Flowers by the Mississippi Center for Justice and the Hogan Lovells law firm”: The Mississippi Center for Justice issued this news release yesterday.

You can view the complaint initiating suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi at this link.

“We Are Becoming a Nation of Vigilantes”: Law professors Jon Michaels and David Noll have this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“Texas created a blueprint for abortion restrictions. Republican-controlled states may follow suit.” Meryl Kornfield, Caroline Anders, and Audra Heinrichs have this front page article in today’s edition of The Washington Post.

“The Supreme Court rides to Biden’s rescue”: Columnist Kathleen Parker has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Texas legislators, with an assist from the U.S. Supreme Court, open a Pandora’s box; The country just noticed what Texas was doing, and although Texans have been watching the debate over this anti-abortion law all year, even some of them were surprised at how quickly the legally protected right to abortion disappeared”: Ross Ramsey of The Texas Tribune has this news analysis.

“Supreme Court ruling on Texas law was the result of decades of pressure from anti-abortion groups to shape the court”: Tierney Sneed of CNN has this report.