“Now hovering in the background during a risky pregnancy: The doctor’s legal team; Physicians in states with new abortion bans are leaning heavily on lawyers to decide when to terminate life-threatening pregnancies without violating state laws.” Aria Bendix of NBC News has this report.

“Elite Colleges’ Quiet Fight to Favor Alumni Children; Colleges like Yale and Harvard give a boost to legacy applicants; But with affirmative action under attack, that tradition may become harder to defend”: Stephanie Saul of The New York Times has this report.

“Teva takes $235 mln ‘skinny label’ dispute with GSK to U.S. Supreme Court”: Blake Brittain of Reuters has this report. You can view the petition for writ of certiorari at this link.

“Maryland police warn officers will enforce law against disturbing peace outside Supreme Court justices’ homes”: Whitney Wild and Joan Biskupic of CNN have this report.

“Arrest made in rape of Ohio girl that led to Indiana abortion drawing international attention”: Bethany Bruner. Monroe Trombly, and Tony Cook of The Columbus Dispatch have this report.

“SCOTUS judges ‘doxxed’ after overturning Roe v Wade; Physical and IP addresses as well as credit card info revealed in privacy breach”: Jessica Lyons Hardcastle of The Register has this report.

“White House Privately Signaling It’s Moving Forward With Anti-Abortion Court Pick; Despite outcry from Democrats and reproductive rights groups, Biden isn’t backing off plans to nominate Chad Meredith, a source tells HuffPost”: Jennifer Bendery of HuffPost has this report.

In honest-to-goodness Bashman news from Oregon: While I was away on vacation last week in the Portland, Maine area, I somehow missed the publication of a newspaper article that mentioned me by name.

Zane Sparling of The Oregonian had an article headlined “Online reviewers in Oregon on notice: Supreme Court declines to offer ordinary people higher media protection from libel suits.”

The article mentions me because I was among the participants in an amicus brief that law professor Eugene Volokh filed in the case.

“We should stop giving the Founding Fathers capital-letter reverence; The authors of the Constitution were brilliant, but deifying them plays into the dubious claims of the ‘originalist’ legal movement”: Tom Chaffin has this essay online at The Boston Globe.

“IVF treatment can continue under Texas’ current abortion law, experts say; Doctors and legal experts say Texas’ anti-abortion laws haven’t yet affected fertility treatments, and it appears an unlikely target for anti-abortion groups in the state”: María Méndez of The Texas Tribune has this report.

“Conservatives Killed the Supreme Court Nomination of Harriet Miers, Dooming Roe v. Wade; In 2005, the right stopped George W. Bush’s pick for the Court; Would it have been very different if she had made it?” Bill Scher has this essay online at Washington Monthly.

“How Justice Amy Coney Barrett is wielding enormous influence on the Supreme Court; Barrett’s vote has given conservatives on the Supreme Court the margin they needed to change the court’s interpretation of the law on abortion, immigration and other controversial issues”: John Fritze of USA Today has this report.