“Barrett is wrong: Adoption doesn’t ‘take care of’ the burden of motherhood; This view of adoption and abortion has failed American women.” Gretchen Sisson has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“If the Supreme Court curtails abortion rights it could flip the script on the 2022 midterm elections”: Gregory Krieg and Rachel Janfaza of CNN have this report.

“Twin Republican strategies brought the antiabortion movement to the cusp of victory in the Supreme Court”: Michael Scherer of The Washington Post has this report.

“Critical Moment for Roe, and the Supreme Court’s Legitimacy; As justices consider Mississippi’s restrictive abortion law, scholars debate what a reversal of Roe v. Wade would mean for the court’s credibility”: Adam Liptak will have this article in Sunday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Ginsburg once defined the court’s vision of women’s equality. Now Barrett does. The new justice sees no conflict between overturning Roe v. Wade and legal protection of women’s rights.” Law professor Mary Ziegler has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Sotomayor saw she couldn’t sway her colleagues. So she talked to us instead. The liberal justice signaled that the next round of the abortion fight might be political, not legal.” Law professor Melissa Murray has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“The Mississippi Abortion Case and the Fragile Legitimacy of the Supreme Court: Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization is an open challenge to the Court’s authority, and perhaps broadly reflects a spirit of legal self-help that is running through the land.” Law professor Jeannie Suk Gersen will have this Comment in the Talk of the Town section of the January 13, 2021 issue of The New Yorker.

“Bump-Stock Ban Remains as Appeals Court Splits on Gun Law”: Martina Barash of Bloomberg Law has this report.

John Kruzel of The Hill reports that “Bump stock ban remains intact after appeals court deadlocks.”

And Kevin Koeninger of Courthouse News Service reports that “Split en banc decision on bump stocks is a win for feds; An 8-8 split among Sixth Circuit judges over the classification of bump stocks as machine guns means a federal judge’s decision to grant the government deference in its interpretation of federal law will be reinstated.”

You can access yesterday’s order of an evenly divided en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirming the district court’s judgment, and the opinions accompanying it in support of affirmance and reversal, at this link.

“It’s time to say it: The conservatives on the Supreme Court lied to us all.” Columnist Paul Waldman has this essay online at The Washington Post.