Morning Docket: 06.29.22

* Texas sheriff decides that Dobbs just didn't happen. [The Guardian] * The "deeply rooted" rhetoric from the Dobbs opinion is already getting used to attack trans folks. If only America was deeply rooted in equality. [Axios] * The SCOTUS Dobbs ruling was so bad -- *How bad was it?* -- that it tanked American soft power. Please clap. [WaPo] * Reminder: Respect to Dick's and all, but planning on corporations to save you generally isn't good praxis. [Commondreams] * With Bremerton nixing the Establishment Clause, I wonder how the Court will process religious justifications for abortion? [Miami Herald]

Sheriff character in gunfight Cartoon art of cowboy with hat and guns* Texas sheriff decides that Dobbs just didn’t happen. [The Guardian]

* The “deeply rooted” rhetoric from the Dobbs opinion is already getting used to attack trans folks. If only America was deeply rooted in equality. [Axios]

* The SCOTUS Dobbs ruling was so bad — *How bad was it?* — that it tanked American soft power. Please clap. [WaPo]

* Reminder: Respect to Dick’s and all, but planning on corporations to save you generally isn’t good praxis. [Commondreams]

* With Bremerton nixing the Establishment Clause, I wonder how the Court will process religious justifications for abortion? [Miami Herald]


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