“Abortion Ruling Highlights Diverging Paths of Justices John Roberts, Samuel Alito; Chief Justice’s vision of Supreme Court stands at odds with majority opinion’s author”: Jan Wolfe of The Wall Street Journal has this report, along with an article headlined “Clarence Thomas’s Abortion Opinion Revisits Same-Sex Marriage, Contraception; Many conservatives say prospect of court taking another look at widely accepted decisions is remote, calling them more settled than Roe.”
“America’s Constitution Is Conservative, Like It or Not. There’s a reason the Supreme Court is rejecting liberal arguments on everything from abortion to guns. And it has nothing to do with the justices’ politics.” Ramesh Ponnuru has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.
And in the Sunday Review section of tomorrow’s edition of The New York Times, columnist Ross Douthat will have an essay titled “The End of Roe Is Just the Beginning.”
“Supreme Court Throws Abortion to an Unlevel State Playing Field; The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade shifted the abortion fight to state legislatures, where gerrymandering has given Republicans an advantage”: Jonathan Weisman and Jazmine Ulloa will have this news analysis in Sunday’s edition of The New York Times.
Also in Sunday’s edition of That newspaper, Julie Bosman will have an article headlined “Century-Old State Laws Could Determine Where Abortion Is Legal.”
“The Radical Reign of Clarence Thomas”: Columnist Maureen Dowd will have this essay in the Sunday Review section of tomorrow’s edition of The New York Times.
“Decades Ago, Alito Laid Out Methodical Strategy to Eventually Overrule Roe; A slow-burning hostility to constitutional abortion rights runs through the career of the author of the Supreme Court opinion overturning them”: Charlie Savage will have this article in Sunday’s edition of The New York Times.
“The Constitution Is Whatever the Right Wing Says It Is; The Supreme Court majority’s undead constitutionalism is transforming right-wing media tropes into law”: Adam Serwer has this essay online at The Atlantic.
“The Conservative Justices Know the Only Supreme Court Rule That Matters”: Jay Willis has this post at Balls and Strikes.
“Requiem for the Supreme Court”: Linda Greenhouse will have this guest essay in the Sunday Review section of tomorrow’s edition of The New York Times.
In the January 25, 1970 issue of The New York Times Magazine, Greenhouse had an article headlined “Constitutional Question: Is There a Right to Abortion?“
“Biden doesn’t support expanding the Supreme Court, White House says; The president said the high court ‘has made some terrible decisions'”: Alexandra Hutzler of ABC News has this report.
“Supreme Court is bold, confident, conservative and ready to move further right”: David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has this report.
“Supreme Court conservatives assert power with abortion, gun rulings”: Lawrence Hurley of Reuters has this news analysis.
“The lonely chief: How John Roberts lost control of the court; The chief justice had zero support for his middle of the road effort on Roe v. Wade.” Josh Gerstein of Politico has this report.
“Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch Are Destroying Their Mentor’s Legacy”: Law professor Thomas P. Crocker has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.
“Now Roe. What’s Next? I believe the fears that the Supreme Court poses a threat to other rights are overblown. (Though I’ve been wrong before.) Understanding why requires going beyond the usual talking points and digging into doctrine.” David Lat has this essay online at Esquire magazine.
And at “The Volokh Conspiracy,” Dale Carpenter has a post titled “Why Other Fundamental Rights Are Safe (At Least for Now); The conservative majority’s commitments on contraception, sexual intimacy, and same-sex marriage.”
“GOP lawmaker says she trusts Utah women to control their ‘intake of semen’ as abortion trigger law goes into effect; Utah Senate President Stuart Adams said he would support the Supreme Court also reconsidering same-sex marriage”: Bryan Schott of The Salt Lake Tribune has this report.
“The radical conservative majority’s damage to the Supreme Court cannot be undone”: Columnist Ruth Marcus has this essay online at The Washington Post.
“We must protect life from conception until the moment of birth!” Columnist Alexandra Petri has this op-ed in today’s edition of The Washington Post.
“The End of the Beginning of the End of Abortion”: Professor Hadley Arkes has this essay online at First Things.
Also online at First Things, law professor Gerard V. Bradley has an essay titled “What Comes After Roe.”
“An Originalist Victory: The Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling is a tremendous success for the constitutional theory around which conservatives rallied for nearly half a century.” Law professor J. Joel Alicea has this essay online at City Journal.
Also online at City Journal, James R. Copland has an essay titled “Roe‘s Demise: What does it mean — and what’s next?“
“Kavanaugh Gave Private Assurances. Collins Says He ‘Misled’ Her. ‘I am a don’t-rock-the-boat kind of judge,’ the justice told the senator in a discussion on Roe, according to notes from a meeting before his confirmation.” Carl Hulse has this front page article in today’s edition of The New York Times.
“The Supreme Court is at its most conservative now from the last 75 years”: Nina Totenberg had this audio segment on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Weekend Edition Saturday.”
Also on that broadcast, Rosemary Westwood had an audio segment titled “Jackson Women’s Health Org. is fully booked, with abortions facing a ban in 9 days.”
“In 6-to-3 Ruling, Supreme Court Ends Nearly 50 Years of Abortion Rights”: Adam Liptak has this front page article in today’s edition of The New York Times.
In today’s edition of The Washington Post, Robert Barnes and Ann E. Marimow have a front page article headlined “Supreme Court ruling leaves states free to outlaw abortion; The justices voted 6 to 3 to uphold a restrictive Mississippi law, but Chief Justice John Roberts criticized his conservative colleagues for taking the additional step of overturning Roe v. Wade.”
In today’s edition of The Los Angeles Times, David G. Savage has a front page article headlined “In historic reversal, Supreme Court overturns Roe vs. Wade, permitting states to outlaw abortion.”
In today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal, Brent Kendall and Jess Bravin have a front page article headlined “Supreme Court Overturns Roe v. Wade, Eliminates Constitutional Right to Abortion; The court upholds law from Mississippi that bans abortion after 15 weeks, opens door to widespread prohibitions on the procedure.”
John Fritze of USA Today reports that “Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, eliminating constitutional right to abortion; In a blockbuster opinion that closely tracked a leaked draft earlier this year, Justice Alito wrote that the Constitution includes no mention of abortion and that the issue must be left to states.”
And Alex Swoyer and Stephen Dinan of The Washington Times report that “Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, national abortion right.”
“Emboldened Supreme Court majority shows it’s eager for change; Reinforced by Trump appointments, conservatives take on controversies dear to the right”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this report.
In today’s edition of The New York Times, Charlie Savage has a front page article headlined “Abortion Ruling Poses New Questions About How Far Supreme Court Will Go.”
And in commentary, online at The New Republic, Matt Ford has an essay titled “Clarence Thomas Will Wipe Out Marriage Equality and Contraception Next; The right-wing justice has invited conservatives to challenge these long-established rights in court.”
“White House prepares to fight states over abortion pill”: Lawrence Hurley of Reuters has this report.
“Conservative justices seized the moment and delivered the opinion they’d long promised”: Joan Biskupic of CNN has this news analysis.
“June 24, 2022: The Day Chief Justice Roberts Lost His Court; Outflanked by five impatient and ambitious justices to his right, the chief justice has become powerless to pursue his incremental approach.” Adam Liptak has this news analysis in today’s edition of The New York Times.
