“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.

“Congress Should Codify Same-Sex Marriage; A measure to ensure American families are never torn asunder”: Theodore B. Olson and Kenneth B. Mehlman will have this op-ed in Tuesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Conservatives Are Pretending They’re Not Coming for Marriage Equality Next. We’ve Heard That Before. These are the exact same arguments that right-wingers used to attack abortion rights.” Matt Ford has this essay online at The New Republic.

“For Legal Conservatives, Six Decades Of Folding, Followed By Sixteen Years To Draw A Full House; On the plus side, we had Rehnquist, Scalia, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett; On the down side, we had Roberts, Souter, Kennedy, O’Connor, Powell, Blackmun, Burger, Stewart, Whittaker, Brennan, and Warren”: Josh Blackman has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“Harvard Urges Supreme Court to Preserve Affirmative Action in College Admissions”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report. You can access the Brief for Respondent at this link.

“Biden judicial nominee on board of prison ‘abolitionist’ group; Biden nominated Roopali Desai to the 9th Circuit Appeals Court”: Houston Keene of Fox News has this report.

“The Conservative Agenda Depends On Judges Being Terrible Historians; By giving lower court judges a task they can’t complete, the Court’s conservatives are setting themselves up as the only amateur historians who matter”: Jacob Hammond has this post at “Balls and Strikes.”

“Tyson Asks Supreme Court to Overturn Covid Liability Ruling”: Bruce Rolfsen of Bloomberg Law has this report. And the petition for writ of certiorari features Paul D. Clement’s new office address. (His new law firm now has a website too!)

“Activists protest outside Maine mansion of conservative Supreme Court architect”: Evan Popp of the Maine Beacon has this report.

“The Hosts of ‘5-4’ Never Trusted the Supreme Court; With public confidence in the top judicial body at a record low, a leftist podcast is preaching to a growing choir”: Reggie Ugwu of The New York Times has this report. You can access the podcast via this link.

“Supreme Court’s abortion ruling puts attention on states’ supreme court elections”: Shaylee Ragar of Montana Public Radio had this audio segment on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition.”

“Gavin Newsom’s plan to save the Constitution by trolling the Supreme Court; A new California gun law should force the Supreme Court to confront the enormity of its worst decision in decades”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

“AP-NORC poll: 2 in 3 in US favor term limits for justices.” Jessica Gresko and Emily Swanson of The Associated Press have this report. You can access the survey results via this link.

“Will Wisconsin’s Republicans Make Voting Meaningless, or Just Difficult? Activists are combining voter suppression with election conspiracies to capture the state in 2022 and beyond.” Dan Kaufman has this article in the August 1, 2022 issue of The New Yorker.

“Expected Applications, the Second Amendment, and Why Real Originalism is Either Intolerable or Impossible”: Eric Segall has this blog post at “Dorf on Law” responding to John O. McGinnis’s recent post at the “Law & Liberty” blog titled “Bruen‘s Originalism; Bruen clarifies the meaning of the Second Amendment, but it also has potentially transformative implications for originalist theory.”

“‘We, Too, Are Frustrated’: Rehearing Remains Elusive Years After 11th Circuit Banned Class Action Awards; The 2020 opinion from the Eleventh Circuit found incentive awards unlawful, prompting judges across the country to grapple over whether to grant the commonplace awards to class representatives in class action settlements.” Amanda Bronstad of the Daily Business Review has this report.

“A triumphant antiabortion movement begins to deal with its divisions; Among the areas of disagreement are key questions over how to enforce abortions bans”: Rachel Roubein and Brittany Shammas of The Washington Post have this report.

“Neither side is going to win the abortion fight with outlier cases”: Columnist Megan McArdle has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“The Claremont Institute triumphed in the Trump years. Then came Jan. 6. After Trump helped revolutionize Claremont from a minor academic outfit to a key Washington player, the think tank is facing blowback for standing by lawyer John Eastman after he counseled Trump on overturning the 2020 election.” Marc Fisher and Isaac Stanley-Becker of The Washington Post have this report.