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Title X advocates worry that birth control may go the same way as abortion

A Supreme Court ruling overturned Roe v. Wade. Now there's a big push to increase funding for Title X, a federal program that offers birth control and other reproductive care to low-income patients.

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Roe v. Wade ruling spurs LGBT Texans to change plans, leave state

AUSTIN, Texas — Wedding dates are getting moved up. Paternity documents and wills are being updated. Homes are up for sale.

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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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Ted Cruz softens on same-sex marriage, says ‘reasonable people can disagree’

WASHINGTON — Like many conservatives, Sen. Ted Cruz has gone out of his way since the Supreme Court struck down Roe vs. Wade to ease fears that, with abortion rights erased, gay marriage is the next target.

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Scared after the fall of Roe, these 2 Texas women rushed to tie the knot

Following the Supreme Court's decision, Carlie Brown and Molly Pela rescheduled their wedding for nine months earlier. They fear that without federal protections, their family remains vulnerable.

WEKU

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.

Tribune News Service

Cyber Ninjas ‘dead voters’ claim debunked by Arizona attorney general: ‘Many were very surprised to learn they were allegedly deceased’

Now-defunct company was commissioned to investigate baseless claims of fraud in Arizona

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Bloodied but unbowed: liberal justices wield dissents as weapon of resistance

The three justices may be in the minority, but their opinions are sounding an alarm that equal rights are under threat by the new rightwing supermajority of the supreme court

The Guardian - US

Confidence in the Supreme Court is declining – but there is no easy way to oversee justices and their politics

Recent evidence showing that Virginia Thomas, wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, sent at least 29 text messages to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows urging him to help overturn the 2020 election has reignited a long-simmering debate about judicial ethics and the nation’s highest court.

The Conversation

Judge who voted to overturn Roe v Wade steps down from teaching role

Thomas, 74, has faced a backlash for his part in ending the federal right to abortion by overturning the Roe v Wade ruling last month

Evening Standard

Supreme Court "originalism" is pure BS

Right-wing justices claim they're delving for true meanings beneath the Constitution. It's another Big Lie

Salon

After Roe's overturning, Americans are demanding Supreme Court term limits

Following the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturning half a century of abortion rights under Roe v. Wade, nearly two-thirds of Americans want fundamental court reform, specifically term limits for Supreme Court justices.

The Conversation

Dems fear red states banning abortion will zero in on birth control next

Democrats fear that red, anti-abortion states could restrict or even ban birth control.

Axios

Protests keep Thomas from teaching gig

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has canceled plans to teach a seminar at George Washington University

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Justice Clarence Thomas backs out of teaching law school class after outcry at overturning of Roe v Wade

Justice Thomas has taught a seminar at George Washington University Law School since 2011

The Independent UK

Justice Thomas cancels plans to teach at DC law school

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has backed out of teaching a seminar at George Washington University’s law school in the nation’s capital, following student protests and the university’s statement of support for the conservative justice’s role on campus

The Texas Tribune

Ted Cruz says Texas should repeal its now-defunct law banning gay sex

The law was made unenforceable by the Supreme Court in 2003, but Justice Clarence Thomas recently suggested that the court should reconsider it.

The Independent UK

Jan 6 hearings – live: Raskin ‘doesn’t buy’ Secret Service’s explanation for missing texts

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Chicago Sun-Times

Congress must protect the freedom to marry

Anti-equality groups have never accepted the Court’s 2015 ruling that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry under the 14th Amendment and that states cannot ban same-sex marriage.

The Independent UK

Two-thirds of Americans want term limits for Supreme Court justices

A new poll shows Americans’ rapidly dropping opinion of the nation’s highest court

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.

The Independent UK

Jan 6 hearings – latest: Trump ‘lacked courage to act’ says Biden, as ex-president lashes out at Fox & Friends

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The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Ginni Thomas faces possible January 6 subpoena

Cheney and Kinzinger suggest wife of supreme court justice Clarence Thomas could be compelled to testify. Plus, how to learn to handle rejection

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: Is California’s new gun law, modeled after the Texas abortion law, constitutional?

The debate over California’s controversial new gun law, signed Friday by Gov. Gavin Newsom, seems to confuse two important questions: How can the law be challenged in court and, once challenged, is it constitutional?

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?

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