“1 in 3 American women have already lost abortion access. More restrictive laws are coming.” Katie Shepherd, Rachel Roubein, and Caroline Kitchener of The Washington Post have this report.

“Democrats Designed the Climate Law to Be a Game Changer. Here’s How. In a first, the measure legally defines greenhouse gases as pollution. That’ll make new regulations much tougher to challenge in court.” Lisa Friedman of The New York Times has an article that begins, “When the Supreme Court restricted the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency to fight climate change this year, the reason it gave was that Congress had never granted the agency the broad authority to shift America away from burning fossil fuels. Now it has.”

“Is a Fetus a Person? An Anti-Abortion Strategy Says Yes. Fetal personhood, which confers legal rights from conception, is an effort to push beyond abortion bans and classify the procedure as murder. In Georgia, it also means a $3,000 tax credit.” Kate Zernike has this front page article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

“An Unusual $1.6 Billion Donation Bolsters Conservatives; A low-profile Republican financier donated his company to a new group run by the influential operative Leonard A. Leo”: Kenneth P. Vogel and Shane Goldmacher of The New York Times have this report.

“Bunn Fitting In Well on West Virginia Supreme Court”: The Wheeling News-Register has this report.

“U.S. judge questions Idaho abortion ban in Biden administration challenge”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report.

“Pennsylvania Supreme Court spends taxpayer dollars on lavish 300th birthday celebration”: Brad Bumsted has this report at Lancaster Online.

“How Professors Can Teach Constitutional Law While the Supreme Court Is Wrecking It; The law school version of constitutional law taught students that lawyers and judges are at the vanguard of protecting people who lack political power; As the Court’s most recent term has demonstrated, they are not”: G.S. Hans has this post at Balls and Strikes.

“Websites Selling Unapproved Abortion Pills Are Booming”: Dominique Mosbergen and Vibhuti Agarwal of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

“Oklahoma, with a history of botched lethal injections, prepares to start executing a man a month”: Dakin Andone of CNN has this report.

“Appeals court temporarily blocks subpoena to Graham in Georgia election-fraud probe; At issue is whether the subpoena infringes on his legal protections as a member of the U.S. Senate”: Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney of Politico have this report on an order that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued this morning.

Interestingly, the order bears tomorrow’s date as its date of filing.

“They Pledged Not to Prosecute Abortions. The Reality Is Tougher.” Evan Peng of Bloomberg News has this report.

“‘I am optimistic it will erase a blind spot’: Who is Michelle O’Bonsawin, the Supreme Court of Canada’s first Indigenous justice? Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced her nomination Friday, the fifth selection he’s made for the top court since the Liberals came to power in 2015.” Stephanie Levitz of The Toronto Star has this report.

The Canadian Press reports that “Michelle O’Bonsawin becomes first Indigenous person nominated to Supreme Court; O’Bonsawin comes to the court after spending five years as a judge at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.”

Randy Thanthong-Knight of Bloomberg News reports that “Trudeau Nominates First Indigenous Judge to Canada’s Top Court.”

Nick Boisvert of CBC News reports that “Michelle O’Bonsawin becomes 1st Indigenous person nominated to Supreme Court of Canada; O’Bonsawin, a Franco-Ontarian Abenaki from Odanak, has served on Ontario Superior Court of Justice since 2017.”

And Rachel Aiello of CTVNews reports that “Michelle O’Bonsawin nominated as Canada’s first Indigenous Supreme Court justice.”

Yesterday, the Office of Canada’s Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, issued a news release titled “Prime Minister announces the nomination of the Honourable Michelle O’Bonsawin to the Supreme Court of Canada,” along with this profile of the nominee.

“Crypto trader can sue IRS over ‘John Doe’ summons for Coinbase records — 1st Circ”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Reuters has this post about a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued yesterday.

“The Death Penalty Case That Went Too Far: Oklahoma is set to kill Richard Glossip, but he’s almost certainly innocent; Even Republicans are revolting.” Law professor Lara Bazelon has this article online at New York magazine.

“The Enigma of Bolling v. Sharpe”: Cass R. Sunstein has this post at the “Ius & Iustitium” blog.

“Post-Roe differences surface in GOP over new abortion rules”: Hannah Fingerhut and Scott Bauer of The Associated Press have this report.

“Court: Extraordinary damages OK in ‘wrongful life’ case.” Gene Johnson of The Associated Press has this report on a unanimous ruling that the Washington State Supreme Court issued yesterday in a case on certified question from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

“NC’s highest court rules on gerrymandered legislature’s power, but the case isn’t over”: Will Doran of The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina has this report.

And Jonathan Drew and Gary D. Robertson of The Associated Press report that “Court opens door to voiding N. Carolina Voter ID amendment.”

You can access today’s 4-to-3 ruling of the Supreme Court of North Carolina at this link.

Justice Philip Berger Jr. dissented from the majority’s ruling against his own father, Phil Berger, in his father’s official capacity.

“‘I’m Carrying This Baby Just to Bury It’: The Struggle to Decode Abortion Laws; Louisiana doctors fearful of running afoul of new abortion bans in post-Roe America gave a pregnant woman a devastating diagnosis, but not an abortion”: Ava Sasani and Emily Cochrane of The New York Times have this report.

“The Constitution Is Broken and Should Not Be Reclaimed”: Law professors Ryan D. Doerfler and Samuel Moyn have this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“Mueller Memo Advising Barr on Trump Findings Is Ordered Released”: Zoe Tillman of Bloomberg News has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued today.

“Religious schools haven’t yet sought public funding in Maine after Supreme Court decision”: Robbie Feinberg of Maine Public Radio has this report.

“The Sins of the High Court’s Supreme Catholics; The overturn of Roe v. Wade is part of ultra-conservatives’ long history of rejecting Galileo, Darwin, and Americanism”: James Carroll has this Daily Comment online at The New Yorker.

“A Brief History of Supreme Court Justices Growing Awful Facial Hair”: You can access this week’s installment of Jay Willis’s Balls and Strikes newsletter at this link.

“What Is the Supreme Court Hiding? Presidents have to keep their records. Why do justices get a pass?” Michael Schaffer has this essay online at Politico Magazine.

“Permissive Interpretation”: Law professor Richard M. Re has posted this paper at SSRN.

And at “PrawfsBlawg,” Re has a related post titled “We’re All Textualists Now . . . When It Suits Us.”

“Judges Are Now Using Their Retirements as Leverage Against the President”: Law professor Richard M. Re has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Dobbs Footnote 48, Precedent, and why the Supreme Court is not a Court”: Eric Segall has this blog post at “Dorf on Law.”

“Justice Amy Coney Barrett hasn’t disappointed conservative supporters — so far”: Mark Walsh has this report online at ABA Journal.

“Full 5th Circ. Won’t Rehear United Vaccine Mandate Row”: Linda Chiem of Law360 has this report (subscription required for access) on an order denying rehearing en banc, acocmpanied by concurring and dissenting opinions, that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued today.

“Abortion remains banned in Kentucky while Supreme Court reviews disputes in case”: Deborah Yetter of The Louisville Courier Journal has this report.

“The Finality of Without-Prejudice Dismissals That Are Silent on Leave to Amend; The en banc Fourth Circuit held that if the district court says nothing about leave to amend, a without-prejudice dismissal is a final, appealable decision”: Bryan Lammon has this post at his “final decisions” blog about a thoughtful and thorough unanimous en banc ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued yesterday.

“My Abortion at 11 Wasn’t a Choice. It Was My Life.” Nicole Walker has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“A Mother, a Daughter and an Unusual Abortion Prosecution in Nebraska; Private Facebook messages are key evidence in a rare case that has stoked fears and inflamed debate over abortion restrictions”: Shaila Dewan and Sheera Frenkel have this front page article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

My post collecting earlier news coverage of this matter can be accessed here.