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Senate confirmed justices to end Roe. How will voters react?

The end of Roe v. Wade started in the Senate

The Independent UK

Supreme Court conservatives flex muscle in sweeping rulings

Sweeping Supreme Court rulings on guns and abortion this past week have sent an unmistakable message

The Independent UK

The four key turning points that led to the fall of Roe vs. Wade

WASHINGTON — The sudden death of Justice Antonin Scalia in February 2016 initially seemed to end hopes conservatives had for overturning Roe vs. Wade.

Los Angeles Times

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Supreme Court sweeps aside New York's limits on carrying a gun, raising Second Amendment rights to new heights

With its decision in New York State Rifle Pistol v. Bruen on June 23, 2022, the Supreme Court has announced that the Second Amendment is not a second-class right.

The Conversation

Guns and Judicial Protection of Constitutional Rights that Put Lives at Risk

Justice Breyer and others argue that gun regulations deserve special judicial deference because Second Amendment rights create risks to life. But the same is true of many other constitutional rights.

Reason

'The Second Amendment Is Not Unlimited,' Brett Kavanaugh Stresses in SCOTUS Gun Case

“Properly interpreted, the Second Amendment allows a ‘variety’ of gun regulations,” Kavanaugh writes, invoking Antonin Scalia

Reason

No, Texas can’t legally secede from the U.S., despite popular myth

The theme of independence has recurred throughout the history of Texas, which was a republic from 1836–45. But the Civil War established that a state cannot secede.

The Texas Tribune

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Commentary: Ballots and bullets

Uvalde. Another school massacre. Another underage murderer. Another legally purchased weapon of war turned on innocent children. More calls for action. More thoughts and prayers. More braying about upholding the Second Amendment. More pandering.

Tribune News Service

A respected conservative judge is now a critic of his party — and former clerks

Retired federal Judge J. Michael Luttig was questioned by one of his former law clerks about the role of another in the insurrection. He has spoken out against former clerks John Eastman and Ted Cruz.

WEKU

Kavanaugh incident could lead to more security for judges

A man armed with a machete once broke into Stephen Breyer’s vacation home in the Caribbean and took $1,000

The Independent UK

How the Supreme Court went gun crazy

Antonin Scalia and his disciple Amy Coney Barrett have brought us to madness — and not just on guns and abortion

Salon

Uvalde's ugly truth: Cops won't help you

In 2005, the Supreme Court ruled that there is no "'entitlement’ to receive protective services" from police

Salon

Editorial: A code of ethics could help the Supreme Court maintain integrity

In his recent alarm over a widely reported decline in public confidence in the Supreme Court, Justice Clarence Thomas chose a worthy target, but his diagnosis missed a major symptom: his own family ties.

Chicago Tribune

Privacy, secrecy and the Supreme Court

For a cabal that's about to kill off the constitutional right to privacy, SCOTUS sure keeps itself buttoned up

Salon

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The Independent UK

Supreme Court meets for first time since bombshell leak of draft opinion overturning Roe v Wade

‘This is an institution unravelling before our eyes,’ former clerk says

The Independent UK

Justices to meet for 1st time since leak of draft Roe ruling

The Supreme Court’s nine justices will gather in private Thursday for their first scheduled meeting since the leak of a draft opinion that would overrule Roe v

Al Jazeera

The US Senate’s path to a Supreme Court hostile to Roe v Wade

How Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans gamed the system to give Trump three Supreme Court picks.

Los Angeles Times

Michael Hiltzik: Why we need term limits for Supreme Court justices

The Supreme Court's now-confirmed intention of overturning the half-century-old protection for abortion rights in Roe v. Wade is energizing the debate over how to rein in the court's extreme conservative slant.

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Tribune News Service

Gene Collier: Don't thank Trump; this Supreme Court cataclysm is all Mitch

The architect of this fresh American madness should take his rightful bows today, deep and from the waist, and it's not Donald Trump, whose grasp of advanced legal concepts is only that he can't be restrained by them.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

‘Mob rule over the rule of law': McConnell calls for investigation of Supreme Court leak

WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is calling for a criminal investigation of the leak of a U.S. Supreme Court draft memo signaling the end of the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion decision.

Reason

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Ends His Onerous Truck Inspection Order Impeding International Commerce on the Mexican Border

The inspections caused great economic harm, and may also have violated the Dormant Foreign Commerce Clause of the Constitution.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Ghost gun rule won’t do much good, but it also won’t do any harm

This week, President Joe Biden announced new measures to track the sale of “ghost guns,” untraceable firearms made from do-it-yourself kits. The new Justice Department rule will require such kits to be produced by licensed manufacturers, and will require purchasers to pass a background check. This is a reasonable gun…

The Independent UK

Jackson, COVID and a retirement show Congress' partisan path

A milestone Supreme Court confirmation that endured a flawed process

Axios

Ketanji Brown Jackson may be Biden's last justice

Ketanji Brown Jackson is the first — and possibly the last — Supreme Court justice to be confirmed under President Biden.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial: GOP opposition to Jackson only helps further politicize the Supreme Court

The absurd chorus of Republican rationalization for opposing Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson hit a crescendo over the weekend with this comment from Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt: “I won’t be supporting her, but I’ll be joining others in understanding the importance of this moment.” Huh? Other GOP senators have…

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