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On Aug. 2, staid, conservative Kansas gave the United States one of the biggest jolts in an election season in which Democratic disaster and Republican ascension had been such an accepted fact that left-wing media’s denial of inevitability sounded more like prayer. President Joe Biden’s approval rating was lower than…

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Noah Feldman: There's a lot of Harvard and Yale on the Supreme Court. And that's OK

Eight of the nine Supreme Court justices went to Harvard or Yale law schools. So did nearly a fifth of the federal judiciary. This rankles some politicians, watchdog groups and others who see it as an outrageous manifestation of elitism that needs to be changed, given how much power this…

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Scalia’s legacy lives on in Supreme Court’s abortion, gun cases

WASHINGTON — The seeds of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent rulings on guns and abortion lie in the legal theories of a justice who died six years ago.

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Dan Rodricks: Alito laments loss of faith but it’s Supreme Court’s credibility he should worry about

Justice Samuel Alito, one of six Catholics on the Supreme Court and author of the decision overturning Roe v. Wade, laments that too many Americans have lost our way: We are not religious enough, he told an audience of other conservative Catholics in Rome, and therefore our “increasingly secular society”…

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Indiana GOP go off the rails on abortion

Republicans rejected putting abortion on a state ballot, because they know voters would reject the ban

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Samuel Alito, a workhorse on the Supreme Court, shapes its conservative path

The justice has played a key role on the court, often leading the charge not just on abortion, but for expanded religious rights, against LGBTQ rights, against expanded voting rights, and more

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GOP election plot already underway

Election officials in three states refuse to sign off on primary results in a preview of likely November chaos

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Justice Alito mocks foreign critics of abortion reversal

Justice Samuel Alito mocked foreign leaders’ criticism of the Supreme Court decision he authored overturning a constitutional right to abortion, in his first public comments since last month’s ruling

The Independent UK

Justice Alito taunts Boris Johnson and Prince Harry for opposing his Roe ruling, saying outgoing PM ‘paid the price’

Justice Alito drew laughter from a conservative audience as he made fun of global outrage at his opinion to overturn Roe v Wade

The Independent UK

Prince Harry openly mocked by Supreme Court figure for opposing US abortion law

Prince Harry appeared to reference the recent overturning of the Roe v Wade abortion law during a speech at the United Nations next week - and now US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has hit back at Harry for his comments

Daily Mirror

Alito taunts critics of abortion ruling

After writing an opinion striking down Roe, Alito hits out at Boris Johnson, Justin Trudeau and Prince Harry

Salon

Samuel Alito: Supreme Court justice mocks Boris Johnson and Prince Harry over reaction to abortion ruling

Samuel Alito mocked world figures for their criticism of decision which overturned abortion rights in US

Evening Standard

Alito decries 'hostility to religion' in first public remarks since abortion decision

WASHINGTON — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito decried what he called “hostility to religion” in his country and Europe, as he made his first public remarks since the release of his opinion overturning the constitutional right to abortion.

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Dobbs Opened Up an Attack on Doctors

The Supreme Court decision overturning Roe has made bad law and bad medicine

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Commentary: Why I’m racing to thaw my embryos

My husband and I have several frozen embryos in storage somewhere in suburban Rockville, Maryland. Over the past decade, this possibility to expand our family one day has held a place in our hearts. But now, we are rushing to fill out the paperwork to thaw and respectfully dispose of…

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Chief Justice John Roberts tried to protect Roe but failed to persuade Supreme Court colleagues, report claims

Draft opinion leak led to renewed sense of urgency among conservatives to issue final opinion before it could face other obstacles

Salon

SCOTUS leak derailed effort to save Roe

Roberts tried to sway Justice Brett Kavanaugh before an unidentified leaker blew up his efforts

Salon

Alito's Dobbs decision: Bad theology

Alito's conception of morality, in his abortion decision, relies on a patriarchal theology most Americans reject

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The Conversation

Overturning Roe is not making laws reflect what people want -- new survey highlights flaws in Supreme Court's reasoning in returning abortion authority to states

Since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision that overturned the constitutional right to an abortion, multiple states have enacted laws prohibiting or restricting women from obtaining an abortion.

Reason

For Legal Conservatives, Six Decades Of Folding, Followed By Sixteen Years To Draw A Full House

On the plus side, we had Rehnquist, Scalia, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett. On the down side, we had Roberts, Souter, Kennedy, O'Connor, Powell, Blackmun, Burger, Stewart, Whittaker, Brennan, and Warren.

Chicago Tribune

Editorial: After Dobbs, same-sex marriage could be threatened. Congress is right to codify it

With the upheaval caused by the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade came aftershocks of worry about what could come next. Could, as Justice Clarence Thomas suggested in his concurring opinion, same-sex marriage get lined up in the court’s crosshairs as a future target? Contraception? Interracial marriage?

The Independent UK

Supreme Court leak probe: So many questions, so few answers

Less than 24 hours after the unprecedented leak of the draft opinion that overturned Roe v_ Wade, Chief Justice John Roberts ordered an investigation into what he called an “egregious breach.”

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Heidi Stevens: The world is on fire. Why are we debating people's right to marry who they love?

I thought, naively it turns out, we might get to a point in my lifetime where we stop saying same-sex marriage. Where we just say marriage.

Salon

No, same-sex marriage is not "settled"

Most powerful voting bloc in the nation pushes the Republican Party into contentious culture wars before midterms

The Guardian - US

US House passes bill to protect right to same-sex and interracial marriage

The measure, partly a political strategy, forced Democrats and Republicans to record their view, and garnered bipartisan support

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