“The Trump Court and The Roberts Court: What the data about decisions can tell us about the new Supreme Court term.” Professor Lee Epstein is Dahlia Lithwick’s guest on today’s new episode of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast.
“Marathon bomber faces revived death sentence in high court”: Mark Sherman and Alanna Durkin Richer of The Associated Press have this report.
“What abortion access looks like in America even before the Supreme Court reconsiders Roe v. Wade”: Tierney Sneed of CNN has this report.
“Texas’ restrictive abortion law temporarily restored by federal appeals court”: Madlin Mekelburg of The Austin American-Statesman has this report.
J. David Goodman of The New York Times reports that “Most Abortions in Texas Are Banned Again After Court Ruling; A federal appeals court panel temporarily reinstated the law that bans most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy while it considers a district judge’s ruling.”
Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post reports that “Appeals court reinstates Texas’s six-week abortion ban, two days after it was lifted.”
Zoe Tillman and Matt Berman of BuzzFeed News report that “Texas’s Six-Week Abortion Ban Is Back On After An Appeals Court Paused A Judge’s Injunction; SB 8 is in effect again after the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a temporary stay after a judge blocked the ban on Wednesday.”
And Reese Oxner of The Texas Tribune reports that “Appeals court allows Texas abortion law to resume, stopping federal judge’s order to block its enforcement; Because of the way the law is written, it appears that clinics and doctors who performed abortions outlawed by the statute even while the block was in effect would now be vulnerable to lawsuits.”
You can access last night’s per curiam order of a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit at this link.
“The Supreme Court v. Reality”: Columnist Maureen Dowd will have this essay in Sunday’s edition of The New York Times.
“Apple Filing Notice of Appeal in Epic Antitrust Case, Looks to Stay In-App Injunction; The iPhone maker wants a stay on judge’s order to open in-app communications that could allow cheaper payment options”: Tim Higgins has this article in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.