“Obamacare back in court as Texans challenge coverage for STDs and HIV care; The GOP’s decade-plus war against the health law continues with lawsuit over coverage requirement for testing, vaccines and PrEP”: Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico has this report.
“Democrats introduce bill to enact term limits for Supreme Court justices”: Mychael Schnell of The Hill has this report.
“Republicans stay mum as Senate pushes toward same-sex marriage vote”: Mike DeBonis of The Washington Post has this report.
“Why Exceptions for the Life of the Mother Have Disappeared: The absence of these exemptions is a sign of the anti-abortion-rights movement’s distrust of women and the medical establishment.” Law professor Mary Ziegler has this essay online at The Atlantic.
“The Supreme Court Is Making America Ungovernable; The West Virginia v. EPA ruling signals a future in which no one in power has the ability to tackle the biggest issues society faces”: Law professor Lisa Heinzerling has this essay online at The Atlantic.
“Justice Tamika Montgomery-Reeves — Nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit”: Harsh Voruganti has this post at his blog, “The Vetting Room.”
“Breaking Down Joan Biskupic’s Latest Reporting On The Dobbs Leak”: Josh Blackman has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”
“New York High Court Judge Says She’s Now Ready to Be Vaccinated for COVID; Judge Jenny Rivera has been participating remotely for months because she has declined to be vaccinated; Her decision to change that stance — based on the availability of a new type of vaccine — may remove an impediment to her serving as interim chief judge, if she is chosen by her colleagues on the state’s highest court”: Brian Lee of the New York Law Journal has this report.
“My Latest Theory About The SCOTUS Leaker: Is it possible that even the Politico reporters who published the Dobbs draft don’t know the identity of their source?” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.
“Abortion decision threatens care for more than one million patients with arthritis; As a rheumatologist, I rely on a medication that, at high doses, can cause abortion; It’s getting harder for patients to access this essential treatment”: Belinda Birnbaum, M.D. has this essay online at The Philadelphia Inquirer.
“The Supreme Court weakened a unique California labor law. Will this case against Uber bring it back?” Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has an article that begins, “After the U.S. Supreme Court severely weakened a unique California law allowing workers to join one another and sue their employer over labor law violations, the state Supreme Court has agreed to consider reviving the law in a suit by an Uber driver.”
“Because of Texas abortion law, her wanted pregnancy became a medical nightmare”: Carrie Feibel had this audio segment on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition.”
“Texas Lawyer Behind Abortion Ban Takes Aim at HIV Prevention; Access to Gilead life-saving drugs put at risk by lawsuit; US says if mandate struck down health costs will rise”: Erik Larson and Janet Miranda of Bloomberg News have this report.
“North Carolina and Florida Become Southern Abortion Havens”: Christine Vestal of Stateline has this report.
“Retrenchment of the Federal Right to Abortion: How Dobbs Threatens National Security.” Heather Zimmerman and Justin Cole have this blog post at “Just Security.”
“30 days since Roe was overturned: How the country has changed; At least 13 states have ceased nearly all abortion services.” Mary Kekatos of ABC News has this report.
“Conservative judges urge Supreme Court to revive law making it a crime to encourage undocumented immigrants to stay in the U.S.” Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has this report on an order, accompanied by concurring and dissenting opinions, denying rehearing en banc that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued yesterday.
“The Supreme Court Decisions on Guns and Abortion Relied Heavily on History. But Whose History? Justices say that history is a more legitimate way to interpret the Constitution, but they are taking that history from motivated advocacy groups, not professional historians.” Law professor Allison Orr Larsen has this essay online at Politico Magazine.
“The inside story of how John Roberts failed to save abortion rights”: Joan Biskupic of CNN has this report.