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In the '90s, a new breed of rock stars organized for abortion rights. Could that happen today?

LOS ANGELES — This past June, across the Atlantic, over 200,000 fans descended upon the pastoral English village of Pilton, Somerset, for this year's Glastonbury Festival. Yet for many in attendance, particularly for U.S. citizens, the weekend's music was overshadowed by some breaking news: On June 24, the U.S. Supreme…

Los Angeles Times

If Congress Bans Abortion, This New Deal Precedent Will Be at the Center of the Legal Battles

A 1942 decision about the Commerce Clause takes on new importance post-Roe.

Reason

Impeaching Clarence Thomas ‘unrealistic,’ says Senate majority whip

Impeach Justice Clarence Thomas? A top Senate Democrat says not likely.

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N.Y. Times Opinion: "If Only John Roberts Would Retire"

No, it wasn't my column.

Reason

The ‘Thomas court’: after biding his time, rightwing justice finds his power

Just as the conservative justice reaches the zenith of his influence to press his agenda, a political scandal could yet tear him down

The Guardian - US

The week SCOTUS trashed the Constitution

Sam Alito and John Roberts appeal to "history and tradition" — while they dance around the burning Constitution

Salon

Judicial committee to investigate hiring of controversial law clerk at federal appeals court in Atlanta

ATLANTA — A special committee will investigate the hiring of a law clerk by the chief judge of the federal appeals court in Atlanta in light of allegations the clerk had sent racist and xenophobic texts, a judicial panel ruled Friday.

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Biden planned to pick Thomas-style judge

Biden reportedly agreed to nominate anti-abortion lawyer Chad Meredith in deal with Mitch McConnell

Salon

What is originalism? Did it underpin the Supreme Court's ruling on abortion and guns? Debunking the myths

Recent Supreme Court decisions overturning Roe v. Wade and expanding gun rights in the U.S. have led some legal experts to declare the “triumph of originalism.”

The Conversation

Lightfoot ends second quarter with $2.5M in campaign fund after raising $1.25M

One day after former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas dropped $836,500 into his mayoral campaign fund, Lightfoot saw Vallas’ opening bid and raised him by $413,500. That leaves the mayor with $2.5 million in cash on hand to bankroll what is almost certain to be an uphill battle for…

Chicago Sun-Times

Could the US supreme court give state legislatures unchecked election powers?

At Moore v Harper’s core is the independent state legislature theory, giving them free rein for setting federal elections rules

The Guardian - US

Access to reproductive health care has been harder for Black and brown women – overturning Roe made it harder

In a mere few days after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, at least seven states banned abortion.

The Conversation

At Dallas abortion rights protest, 10 Texans share their stories

DALLAS -- Nearly 50 years have passed since Jane Roe sued then-Dallas County Distrct Attorney Henry Wade for the right to have an abortion in Texas, forever making Dallas ground zero in the country’s ongoing fight about reproductive rights.

Tribune News Service

Highland Park banned assault weapons a decade ago. A fragile patchwork of gun laws didn’t stop a mass shooting

Gun violence prevails with frightening regularity as long as high-powered firearms are available, Alex Woodward reports

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Progressives call for SCOTUS reform

After high court's "extreme decisions," House progressives call for ethics rules — and adding four new justices

The Independent UK

Highland Park set tight gun limits long before parade attack

The latest act of mass violence to hit the U.S. has focused attention on Highland Park’s 2013 ban on semi-automatic weapons and large-capacity magazines

Reason

George Washington University Officials Defend Clarence Thomas' Free Expression Rights

The university's own students are often not so lucky.

The Independent UK

Clarence Thomas wrote dissent opinion on assault rifle ban in Highland Park nearly a decade ago

The right-wing Supreme Court justice called assault rifles ‘modern sporting rifles’

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If you like what the US Supreme Court just did, you’re going to love the next term

If you like the decisions the U.S. Supreme Court handed down this term, you’re going to be enraptured by what comes next. For the rest of us, though, the worst could be yet to come.

The Independent UK

Petition calling for Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas impeachment has more than 1 million signatures

Mr Thomas was the sole dissenting opinion in a Supreme Court case the ruled Mr Trump had to turn over presidential records to the House Select Committee

Newsroom.co.nz

Inside the US Supreme Court's perilous lurch to the right

Hayden Thorne examines how conservative judicial activism is reshaping American law in dangerous ways.

The Conversation

Can Americans be shielded from the U.S. Supreme Court?

When United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died with 10 months left in President Barack Obama’s second term, Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader at the time, took the extreme step of refusing to hold hearings for his nominated replacement, Merrick Garland.

Salon

Petition to impeach Thomas grows

"He must resign—or Congress must immediately investigate and impeach," the MoveOn petition reads

Salon

After Roe: Defund the Democrats

After their disastrous failure on abortion rights, Democrats want us to give more money and vote harder. Forget it

WEKU

Alabama is using the case that ended Roe to argue it can ban gender-affirming care

The case marks one of the first known instances in which a conservative state has tried to apply the abortion ruling to other realms, just as LGBTQ advocates and others were afraid would happen.

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