“Abortion laws spark profound changes in other medical care”: Lindsey Tanner of The Associated Press has this report.

“Former Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer Will Return to Harvard Law School’s Faculty this Fall”: Isabella B. Cho of The Harvard Crimson has this report.

And Vivi E. Lu and Leah J. Teichholtz of The Harvard Crimson report that “The Harvard Crimson to Shift to Weekly Print Publication Starting This Fall.”

“The Most Hated Justice on the Supreme Court; Justice Brett Kavanaugh has been a liberal target since his brutal confirmation fight in 2018; That he strikes a more conciliatory tone than colleagues doesn’t appease his critics”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

“Groups that aid abortion patients pull back, fearing legal liability; Since the fall of Roe v. Wade, low-income people in some states with abortion bans are facing shrinking financial options”: Christopher Rowland of The Washington Post has this report.

“More Republicans push for abortion bans without rape, incest exceptions; Despite opposition from most Americans, many conservatives are pushing abortion bans that do not include exceptions in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade”: Michael Scherer and Rachel Roubein of The Washington Post have this report.

“Biden Drops Plan to Name Anti-Abortion Lawyer Backed by McConnell as Judge; The White House quietly agreed with the Senate Republican leader to nominate Chad Meredith for a federal judgeship, but opposition from his fellow Kentuckian Rand Paul scuttled the deal”: Carl Hulse of The New York Times has this report.

And Karla Ward of The Lexington Herald Leader reports that “Biden declines to nominate conservative Western Kentucky attorney for federal judgeship.”

“This sleeper Supreme Court case could be a nightmare for corporations”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Reuters has this post.

“Texas hospitals are putting pregnant patients at risk by denying care out of fear of abortion laws, medical group says; Medical professionals across the state have expressed confusion over what care they can provide amid Texas’ abortion ban, leading to some patients allegedly receiving delayed care or being turned away”: Reese Oxner and María Méndez of The Texas Tribune have this report.

“‘Oh, God, no’: Republicans fear voter backlash after Indiana child rape case; The case of a 10-year-old rape victim is highlighting the election downsides of the new wave of abortion bans.” David Siders, Adam Wren, and Megan Messerly of Politico have this report.

And at the “Intelligencer” blog of New York magazine, Sarah Jones has a post titled “The False Piety of the Anti-Abortion Movement; They preached about a moral crisis and were unprepared for what they unleashed.”

“The leader of the Pa. House Republicans is appealing the state legislative maps to the U.S. Supreme Court; Pennsylvania Republicans aren’t done fighting the new state House map”: Jonathan Lai of The Philadelphia Inquirer has this report.

“Byron White, Supreme Court Justice and Basketball Star; The late Justice Byron White was a famed football player in his younger days, but his basketball skill made a mark inside and outside the court”: Tony Mauro of The National Law Journal has this post at his “The Marble Palace Blog.”

“Dr. Caitlin Bernard Was Meant to Write This With Me Before She Was Attacked for Doing Her Job”: Professor Tracey A. Wilkinson has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“The Supreme Court Has Ushered In a New Era of Religion at School; For two centuries, America had kept questions of church and state at bay; The country is not ready for the ones to come”: Professor Adam Laats has this essay online at The Atlantic.

Another jurist on the highest court of a state agrees to accept a federal district court nomination: Julia Shumway of Oregon Capital Chronicle reports that “Biden nominates Oregon Supreme Court Justice Adrienne Nelson to U.S. District Court.”

“Flouting public opinion by overturning Roe, the Supreme Court could be risking its legitimacy”: Tal Kopan — now with The Boston Globe — has this front page article in today’s edition of that newspaper.

“How Supreme Court reform unites Canadian conservatives and American liberals”: Columnist J.J. McCullough has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Justice Stephen Breyer returns to Harvard Law School”: Harvard Law Today has a report that begins, “Justice Stephen Breyer ’64 has been named the Byrne Professor of Administrative Law and Process at Harvard Law School, effective immediately.”

“Same-Sex Marriage Rights Get Lawmaker Focus in Post-Roe Debate”: Maia Spoto of Bloomberg Law has this report on a hearing titled “What’s Next: The Threat to Individual Freedoms in a Post-Roe World” that the U.S. House Judiciary Committee held yesterday.

You can view the archived video of the hearing on YouTube via this link.

“Big Law Mostly Quiet on Abortion Aid as Texas Battle Rages”: Meghan Tribe and Maia Spoto of Bloomberg Law have a report that begins, “Texas has emerged as ground zero in the fight over abortion rights, but many major law firms in the state are so far staying on the sidelines.”

“Brett Kavanaugh Wants You to Know It’s Not About Abortion; The Supreme Court justice tries to distinguish himself as the un-Alito, somehow softer, more nuanced, and nicer; It’s a master class in gaslighting”: Columnist Vivia Chen has this essay online at Bloomberg Law.

“Republicans Are Already Threatening the Right to Travel”: Columnist Jamelle Bouie has this essay online at The New York Times.

“Can pharmacists refuse to fill prescriptions for drugs that can be used in abortions? Under this Supreme Court, patients could struggle to obtain lifesaving drugs like methotrexate.” Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

“How the White House is responding to Roe v. Wade”: This audio segment appeared on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition.”

The broadcast also contained an audio segment titled “Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sues Biden administration over abortion guidance.”

“Is the Supreme Court standing as a beacon for democracy or plotting its downfall? Court watchers question the conservative majority’s logic that, after years of erosion of voter rights, constitutional protections are supposed to get decided at the ballot box.” Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service has this report.

“Indiana Dr. Caitlin Bernard reported 10-year-old Ohio girl’s abortion, records show”: Tony Cook of The Indianapolis Star has this report.

And online at The New York Times, columnist Michelle Goldberg has an essay titled “A 10-Year-Old Endures the Predictable Result of an Abortion Ban.”

“The abortion decision — ‘concern about the public’s reaction’ and what difference Clinton’s election might have made”: Russell Wheeler has this post at the “FixGov” blog of the Brookings Institution.

“Would-be Kavanaugh attacker moves to block statements to law enforcement from trial”: Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has this report.

“Texas Sues Biden Administration Over Access to Emergency Medical Abortions; Recent administrative guidance to hospitals said they had to allow the termination of a pregnancy in emergency situations if complications posed a threat to the health or life of the woman”: J. David Goodman of The New York Times has this report.

Katie Shepherd of The Washington Post reports that “Texas sues Biden administration for requiring abortions in medical emergencies.”

And Reese Oxner of The Texas Tribune reports that “Texas sues after Biden administration issues guidance saying doctors can perform abortions in emergencies; Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton argues the Biden administration is violating the state’s ‘sovereign interest’ by reassuring the nation’s doctors they can perform abortions in medical emergencies.”

You can view the complaint initiating suit at this link.

“National Right to Life official: 10-year-old should have had baby; The story has sparked a national conversation over the consequences of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and how far some states are willing to go to prohibit abortions.” Megan Messerly and Adam Wren of Politico have a report that begins, “The 10-year-old Ohio girl who crossed state lines to receive an abortion in Indiana should have carried her pregnancy to term and would be required to do so under a model law written for state legislatures considering more restrictive abortion measures, according to the general counsel for the National Right to Life.”

“Prison Labor Rights in Focus as 3rd Cir. Hears $5-a-Day Pay Case”: Robert Iafolla of Bloomberg Law has a report that begins, “A federal appeals court in Philadelphia will hear oral argument Thursday over whether to revive a class lawsuit alleging a Pennsylvania county prison’s work program amounts to forced labor in violation of state and federal law and the US Constitution.”

I will add a link to the archived oral argument audio once the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit posts it online. [Update: You can access the oral argument audio via this link. The argument lasted over one hour and ten minutes. Circuit Judge Joseph A. Greenaway, Jr., who presided over the oral argument, began by musing whether this appeal had the most briefs filed of any appeal he had ever been assigned to decide.]

“Abortion advocates see opportunity in ascent of religious liberty; Religion can be as strong a basis to safeguard abortion access as to ban the procedure”: Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service has this report.

“The Right to Travel in a Post-Roe World; In a concurring opinion last month, Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh said the Constitution did not allow states to stop women from traveling to get abortions; But the issue is more complicated than that”: Adam Liptak had this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Which ‘Liberal Case’ For a Conservative Supreme Court Nominee Aged Worst? Presenting the ‘liberal’s case’ for never listening to Neal Katyal again.” Adam Rust has this post at Balls and Strikes.

“Twitter suspends group responsible for publishing home addresses of Supreme Court justices; The Ruth Sent Us group has aggressively pushed pro-abortion protests”: Anders Hagstrom of Fox News has this report.

“The Vindication of Stephen Breyer; In a 2015 dissent, the justice warned that the death penalty was cruel and unusual; The story of the man at the center of that Supreme Court case explains why”: Jeremy Stahl has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.