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House to vote on same-sex marriage, push back against court

The House is set to vote to protect same-sex and interracial marriages

The Independent UK

Ted Cruz just issued a not-so-thinly veiled threat to gay marriage

The senator said the 'Obergefell' decision that legalized same-sex marriage was “clearly wrong.”

Mic

What the liberal justices’ scorching dissent reveals about the US supreme court

Opinions from Breyer, Kagan and Sotomayor send stark warning about increasingly radical court abandoning long-held principles

The Guardian - US

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Group offers up to $250 for SCOTUS justices sightings after Kavanaugh protest

Prior to Roe being overturned, the federal government warned of a potential surge in political violence.

Axios

The week SCOTUS trashed the Constitution

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

Salon

Without Obergefell, most states would have same-sex marriage bans

The U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in 2015, but in most states, laws or constitutional amendments would revive the prohibition if the high court decides, as it did with abortion, that such unions are not a constitutionally protected right.

Tribune News Service

There’s an antifeminist backlash silencing women – more and more literally

Powerful men are using defamation lawsuits to shut down allegations against them, and anti-choice groups are trying to pass laws criminalizing speech about abortion

The Guardian - US

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Abortion decision cherry-picks history – when the US Constitution was ratified, women had much more autonomy over abortion decisions than during 19th century

Justice Samuel Alito appears spellbound by the 19th century.

The Conversation

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.

Tribune News Service

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.

Newsroom.co.nz

Abortion ruling puts spotlight on gerrymandered legislatures

State legislatures will be in the spotlight as a result of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling giving the power to regulate abortion to the states

The Independent UK

Doctors weren't considered in Dobbs, but now they're on abortion's legal front lines

In a departure from earlier Supreme Court decisions on abortion, Justice Alito's abortion opinion barely mentions medicine. This creates a perilous new legal reality for doctors, legal analysts say.

WEKU

Clarence Thomas is at the peak of his power

Thomas has been laying the groundwork for this moment for years.

Axios

'Revolutionary' high court term on abortion, guns and more

Abortion, guns and religion _ a major change in the law in any one of these areas would have made for a fateful Supreme Court term

The Independent UK

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John Roberts is the chief justice of the US Supreme Court. But the fall of Roe v Wade and abortion rights have left him 'weakened'

As Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, John Roberts has enjoyed one of the most powerful positions in American society. But when Donald Trump installed three of his own picks on the bench, suddenly everything changed.

Salon

SCOTUS sets up election theft for GOP

Supreme Court ends infamous term with promise for worse outcomes next time

Salon

I can't believe I pay taxes for this

Yes, I think we should pay taxes. But from SCOTUS salaries to the police, I have questions about our ROI

Salon

One nation — under minority rule

Right-wing justices tell us they're sending abortion back to the states — where they've rigged and broken democracy

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Chicago Tribune

Commentary: The Supreme Court gets an F in history for its rationales in abortion, gun rulings

It happens at least once a semester. My students and I will be discussing a contested political issue — say, affirmative action or capital punishment — and someone will ask, “Professor, what does history say about it?”

The Independent UK

Anti-Roe justices a part of Catholicism's conservative wing

The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade at a time when it has an unprecedented Catholic supermajority

The Conversation

The Supreme Court has overturned precedent dozens of times, including striking down legal segregation and reversing Roe

It is a central principle of law: Courts, including the Supreme Court, are supposed to follow earlier decisions – precedent – to resolve current disputes. But on rare occasions, Supreme Court justices conclude that one of the court’s past constitutional precedents has to go, so they overrule it. This is…

Tribune News Service

Carl P. Leubsdorf: Court's conservative majority isn't going anywhere

Last week’s two significant Supreme Court decisions – loosening some restrictions on American’s gun owners and restricting abortions for the nation’s women – represent the ultimate impact of Donald Trump’s narrow 2016 election victory over Hillary Clinton.

Reason

Abortion Rights Under the 9th and 14th Amendments

Understanding what Justice Alito got wrong in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization

Reason

Alabama Draws on Supreme Court's New Abortion Decision To Justify Trans Youth Treatment Ban

Alabama's attorney general argues such medical transitioning is not rooted in America’s history and therefore not constitutionally protected.

Tribune News Service

Conservative justices vowed to respect precedent: Did they lie or just parse words?

WASHINGTON — As a Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh described the legal principle of respecting past precedent as “critically important” and specifically cited the landmark case of Roe v. Wade that established a legal right to abortion nearly 50 years ago.

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