Dobbs

The Fight To Protect Fertility Treatments Post-<em>Dobbs</em>

Yes, we need to protect this now.

Morning Docket: 03.15.23

* Justice Ketanji has stood out for her questions. Her decisions have fallen in line with the others thus far. [ABA Journal] * A Texas judge could play a role in banning abortion pills nationwide: Quite a lot of intervention from the Lone Star state. [Reuters] * Like voting? You should follow this one: North Carolina's redistricting case is gonna have some spillover. [Reuters] * The "Rust" prosecutor flaked. [NYT] * Conflicts of interest are no joke in these parts. [NY Daily News]

Women’s Rights Soon To Be On The Ballot In New York

If the ERA can make it there, it could make it anywhere.

For The Love Of God, Cards Against Humanity Isn’t Breaking Any Laws By Making You Help People

I will personally be blocking anyone I see making this dumb argument from the company's Twitter.

Just Because They Can’t Speak Doesn’t Mean They Can’t Speak For Themselves, Say Egg Activists

This article better not get cited in a note titled, ‘Should Zygotes Have Standing?’

Abortion Law Is Becoming Personal: States Are Grappling With The Practical Consequences Of Deciding When Life Starts

Just know that if we universally make fetuses people and persons have the right to self determination, the antinatalists will like to have a word.

Morning Docket: 08.26.22

* Move over Texas! California found a way to fight environmental destruction with guns! [Press Democrat] * Medical providers take a gambler's approach to abortion access. [NBC Los Angeles] * Forget losing your license, providing an abortion in Texas could get you life in prison! [NBC DFW] * Surprising no one, a Mississippi Appeals Court keeps a Jim Crow voter suppression law on the books. [Mississippi Free Press] * Tennessee anti-abortion law doesn't allow any exceptions for abortions. Might not be the best place to practice medicine if you don't want to see your patients die preventable deaths once things go septic. [The Tennessean]

The Most Recent Abortion Hurdle After Dobbs? A Parentless Teenager Has To Get Their Parent’s Permission

Talk about Kafkaesque.

The New Ground For A Censorship-Prone America: Abortion

Given our response to COVID, are we really surprised that caring about someone else’s health is being criminalized?

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]

So Long, Establishment Clause. What Now?

'My genius lies in my nostrils.' - Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

Paul Weiss Taking Leadership Role In The Wake Of <em>Dobbs</em>

Oh look, a Biglaw firm that's been planning ever since the draft opinion leak.

The Justice Behind The Dobbs Draft Opinion

Examining Justice Alito's authorship of majority opinions in cases decided by a single vote where no liberal justice sat in the majority.