The Latest Breaking News from Samuel Alito

Ending Roe v Wade could badly backfire on Republicans during elections this year

The Democrats now have a fighting chance to maintain control of the Senate. Their odds of retaining and flipping seats have improved overnight

The Guardian - US · May 6, 2022

RBG saw this coming: Roe's fatal flaw

The original Roe decision never even mentions women's equality. As Ginsburg saw, that was a critical mistake

Salon · May 6, 2022

Editorial: Alito's draft ruling is so self-contradictory that it calls court's judgment into question

The Supreme Court draft ruling overturning Roe v. Wade raises just as many arguments and counterarguments as the original ruling that Justice Samuel Alito excoriated in his opinion, leaked this week to Politico. Alito’s assertion that abortion rights don’t fall under the 14th Amendment, and that the Constitution makes no…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch · May 6, 2022

Samuel Alito: the abrasive justice taking abortion rights back to the 17th century

The man who wrote the draft supreme court opinion overturning Roe v Wade is known for his quick temper and ‘traditional’ values

The Guardian - US · May 6, 2022

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand calls on men to imagine they have no authority over their bodies in defense of abortion rights

The junior senator from New York also hit out at the conservative Supreme Court majority in her remarks on Thursday.

The Independent UK · May 5, 2022

Obergefell was central to the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on gay marriage. Now he’s terrified

WASHINGTON — In his draft decision overturning Roe v. Wade, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito tries to limit the blast radius of his ruling by writing that abortion is fundamentally different from other privacy matters — like contraception and marriage equality — that have historically challenged the court.

McClatchy Washington Bureau · May 5, 2022

Alito cancels talk after abortion leak

Alito had been set to appear at the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' judicial conference

Salon · May 5, 2022

US women stock up on birth control amid fears Roe v Wade will be overturned

‘Get as much Plan B as possible, for you, your friends and their kids,’ warns one Twitter user. ‘Birth control will be next’

The Independent UK · May 5, 2022

Schumer announces Senate abortion rights vote: ‘America will be watching’ – as it happened

Senate to vote on legislation codifying abortion rights into federal law but measure has next to no chance of passing in divided chamber

The Guardian - US · May 5, 2022

A leaked draft, termination rights and the politics

The U.S. Supreme Court’s ‘decision’ might have fired up the political scene, but the health statistics must not be ignored

The Hindu · May 5, 2022