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Wednesday, November 30, 2022

“After the Supreme Court’s Abortion Ruling, What Could Happen to Other Unwritten Rights? The right to contraception, the right to refuse medical treatment, the right to live with grandparents, and much more: How unwritten liberties came to exist, and whether they can all survive in a post-Roe world.” Law professor Kenji Yoshino will have this article in this upcoming Sunday’s issue of The Washington Post Magazine.

You can access all of the articles in this upcoming Sunday’s issue — titled the “The Unwritten Rights Issue” — via this link.

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“Second Superior Court judge announces run for Pa. Supreme Court seat”: J.D. Prose of The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania has this report.

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“Maassen to be next chief justice of Alaska Supreme Court”: Michelle Theriault Boots of The Anchorage Daily News has this report.

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“One reason the California Supreme Court is less divided than SCOTUS? It has more women, says chief justice.” Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has this report.

In truth, however, both courts have the same number of female justices. But since California’s high court only has a total of seven justices, it has a higher percentage of female justices.

Posted at 9:18 PM by Howard Bashman



“KS Supreme Court Justice Stegall leaves KU, cites uproar over conservative campus speaker”: Jonathan Shorman and Katie Bernard of The Kansas City Star have this report.

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“Trump-appointed judges say ‘course correction’ could halt Yale clerk boycott”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report.

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“Senate votes to protect same-sex marriage, with crucial backing from some Republicans who helped install conservatives on Supreme Court”: Jim Puzzanghera and Shannon Coan have this front page article in today’s edition of The Boston Globe.

And Burgess Everett of Politico has an article headlined “The GOP’s same-sex marriage evolution: A slow, choppy tidal shift; It’s been a decade since Democrats vaulted into unity on the topic, and Republicans are still openly divided over how much to edge away from a hardline position.”

Posted at 3:04 PM by Howard Bashman



“Without Abortion, Doctors in Texas Are Forced to Witness Horrible Outcomes; We’re supposed to be able to give patients choices on how to handle high-risk pregnancy complications; A new paper shows what happens when we can’t”: Chavi Eve Karkowsky has this essay online at Slate.

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“Is Free Speech Dead on Campus? Featuring Judges James Ho and Elizabeth Branch; Moderated by Akhil Reed Amar.” This hour-long event is scheduled to begin today at 4:20 p.m. eastern time at Yale University’s William L. Harkness Hall, located just around the corner from Yale Law School. The event will also be live-streamed on YouTube via this link.

Posted at 2:55 PM by Howard Bashman



“From Kansas S. Ct. Justice, About Univ. of Kansas Law School’s Response to a Federalist Society Event”: Eugene Volokh has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

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“Where is the Comparativism in Criticisms (or Defenses) of Originalism?” Paul Horwitz has this post at “PrawfsBlawg.”

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“The Justices and the Absence of a Binding Ethics Code: More Reasons Why the Court is not a Court.” Eric Segall has this blog post at “Dorf on Law.”

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“When Judges Mistreat Law Clerks: An Interview With Aliza Shatzman; Through the Legal Accountability Project, Shatzman provides support and resources to law clerks who have not had positive clerkship experiences.” You can access today’s new episode of David Lat’s “Original Jurisdiction” podcast via this link.

Posted at 2:18 PM by Howard Bashman