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Saturday, April 9, 2022

“A refuge for Texas patients, Oklahoma clinics brace for abortion ban; A law modeled after the restrictive Texas ban could soon take effect in Oklahoma”: Caroline Kitchener of The Washington Post has this report.

Posted at 8:20 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Ketanji Brown Jackson Hearings May Be Only the Beginning; The final Senate confirmation vote of 53–47 sparked joy and relief that the ugly part was over, at least for Jackson; The rest of the country may not be so lucky”: Amy Davidson Sorkin will have this Comment in the April 18, 2022 issue of The New Yorker.

Posted at 5:10 PM by Howard Bashman



“Anita Hill Saw History Repeat Itself at Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court Hearings; The key witness in Clarence Thomas’s nomination process joins David Remnick and Jane Mayer to discuss how sex and race shaped the new Justice’s experience, and her own”: The New Yorker has posted online this Q&A.

Posted at 1:09 PM by Howard Bashman



“Thomas Poses With Senate Candidate Walker in Supreme Court Photo; It comes amid scrutiny stemming from wife’s political work; Walker was in Washington to receive Horatio Alger Award”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

Posted at 1:07 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Red State-Blue State Scramble to Replace Roe“: Rebecca Traister has this article in the April 11, 2022 issue of New York magazine.

Posted at 11:06 AM by Howard Bashman



“Idaho Supreme Court Halts 6-Week Abortion Ban Based on Texas’ Law; The court says Idaho’s law cannot go into effect this month as scheduled while it reviews legal challenges; The ban prohibits abortions after fetal cardiac activity is detected”: Vimal Patel has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

And Nicole Blanchard of The Idaho Statesman reports that “Idaho Supreme Court puts restrictive abortion law on hold amid Planned Parenthood lawsuit.”

You can access yesterday’s order of the Supreme Court of Idaho at this link.

Posted at 10:48 AM by Howard Bashman