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It’s Chief Justice Roberts' Court, but does he still lead?

John Roberts is heading a Supreme Court in crisis

The Independent UK

Trump the hero for anti-abortion movement after bending supreme court his way

The former president was once pro-choice – but the threat he posed to reproductive rights was hiding in plain sight

The Guardian - US

A Qualified Defense of Letting States Decide on Abortion

Fewer Americans would be forced to live under a legal regime, imposed from on high, that is contrary to their convictions on a matter of life and death.

Reason

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What conservative justices said — and didn't say — about Roe at their confirmations

Democrats say several conservative justices lied to the Senate in their confirmations. But nominees have long taken a careful line on Roe, acknowledging it as a precedent without saying much more.

WEKU

US Supreme Court: Who’s who and the ideologies of the court

The Supreme Court’s decision was made possible by an emboldened right side of the court

Evening Standard

Where Roe went wrong: A sweeping new abortion right built on a shaky legal foundation

WASHINGTON — Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court’s best-known decision of the past 50 years, is also its most endangered precedent.

Los Angeles Times

New Textbook: Firearms Law and the Second Amendment

Regulation, Rights, and Policy

Reason

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s art collection and personal items up for auction

Among the late supreme court justice’s items up for sale are a mink coat, ceramics by Picasso and sculptures by Glenna Goodacre

The Guardian - US

Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s art, fur coat, awards in auction to benefit opera

Some 150 items from Ginsburg’s office and home at the Watergate are available in an online auction to benefit opera in Washington.

Chicago Sun-Times

RBG jokes with KBJ in SNL sketch

Biden left KBJ in the Oval Office, suggesting she imagine the people who came before her. And RBG appeared

Salon

Jay Ambrose: The left is guilty and Clarence Thomas is innocent

Clarence Thomas is an incredibly inspiring justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, a champion of clarity, logic and the actual meaning of the Constitution, absolutely steadfast in his devotion to rule of law over the worship of ideological certitudes. You know what all of this means, right? If he is…

Tribune News Service

LOCALIZE IT: Story ideas around the Jackson confirmation

After 232 years and 115 other justices, the Supreme Court will have its first Black woman justice. The senate confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson on Thursday by a vote of 53-47. Three Republicans — Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine and Mitt Romney of Utah — voted with Democrats…

The Independent UK

One Cheer for Stephen Breyer

Breyer led the charge against the court packers, denouncing them as shortsighted ideologues who threatened both judicial independence and bedrock liberal values.

Reason

Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be honoured with US navy ship named after her

The ship will be part of a fleet named after important civil rights figures including John Lewis and Thurgood Marshall

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The Independent UK

US Navy to rename ship after Ruth Bader Ginsburg

RBG is ‘instrumental to why we now have women of all backgrounds, experiences and talents serving within our ranks’, Navy Secretary says

The Guardian - US

Ketanji Brown Jackson to receive rare Republican vote as Collins says yes

Maine senator says she will vote to confirm Joe Biden’s nominee: ‘There can be no question she is qualified’

The Independent UK

RBG, writs and recusals: Court nomination viewer's guide

It’s become almost commonplace viewing, seeing a woman nominated for the Supreme Court appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee

The Guardian - US

Cruz: Biden promise to put Black woman on supreme court is racial discrimination

Justices have been chosen on grounds of identity before, as Trump did when he picked a woman to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Supreme court: Stephen Breyer ‘did not want to die on bench’, says brother

Pressure campaign was fired by fear of repeat of disaster when Republicans replaced Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The Conversation

Stephen Breyer is set to retire – should his replacement on the Supreme Court have a term limit?

A vacancy sign hangs above the Supreme Court bench following reports on Jan. 26, 2022, that long-serving liberal justice Stephen Breyer is set to retire.

The Independent UK

Stephen Breyer: Why justice is stepping down from Supreme Court after rebuffing calls to retire

The retirement of the high court’s longest-serving liberal justice shows he isn’t ignorant of this moment in history

Los Angeles Times

Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer to retire, giving Biden his first appointment

WASHINGTON — Justice Stephen G. Breyer, the Supreme Court’s 82-year-old liberal pragmatist, plans to retire this year, clearing the way for President Joe Biden to make his first appointment to the high court, two sources told The Associated Press Wednesday.

The Guardian - UK

From student law to Steinem: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s library up for auction

Bonhams says late supreme court justice’s book collection gives sense of who she was and how she came to be

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