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With Roe v. Wade in Doubt, Some Liberals Fault Ruth Bader Ginsburg for Not Retiring Early

Some fans are now souring on her legacy.

Reason

Kavanaugh incident could lead to more security for judges

A man armed with a machete once broke into Stephen Breyer’s vacation home in the Caribbean and took $1,000

The Independent UK

29 SCOTUS decisions down, 35 to go

Welcome to the Friday, May 20, Brew.

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NBC News’ Pete Williams to retire in July

NBC News correspondent Pete Williams will retire from a broadcasting career that has spanned nearly 30 years.

Tribune News Service

Robe & Gavel: Federal Judicial Vacancy Count released for May 1

Welcome to the May 9 edition of Robe & Gavel, Ballotpedia’s newsletter about the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) and other judicial happenings around the U.S.

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Alito cancels talk after abortion leak

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

Salon

US supreme court justices on abortion – what they’ve said and how they’ve voted

Following publication of the opinion that would overturn Roe v Wade, the court’s views on abortion are under extreme scrutiny

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Justices' views on abortion in their own words and votes

When a draft of the opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito in the Mississippi abortion case was leaked late Monday, the potential outcome — the overruling of Roe v

The Independent UK

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

‘Betrayal’: chief justice orders inquiry into leak of draft abortion ruling

John Roberts says leak of opinion to overturn Roe v Wade ‘intended to undermine the integrity of our operations’

The Guardian - US

Why the Supreme Court rejected Boston's case against raising the Christian flag

There are three flagpoles outside Boston City Hall. One flies the United States flag. Another flies the Massachusetts state flag. And on Monday, the Supreme Court ruled on what can fly from the third.

The Conversation

Boston violated group’s First Amendment rights by denying ‘Christian flag’ outside City Hall, SCOTUS rules

Supreme Court’s 9-0 ruling sides with right-wing group after city rejected flag from shared flagpole

The Independent UK

Supreme Court says Boston unconstitutionally barred Christian flag from city hall

The unanimous decision was sufficiently narrow that other cities, indeed Boston itself, could construct rules that would limit flag flying to government-approved messages.

WEKU

Supreme Court backs Christian group on city hall flagpole use

WASHINGTON — Boston violated the Constitution by refusing to fly a Christian civic group’s flag at city hall while raising the banners of other organizations, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled.

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Supreme Court says Boston violated First Amendment in Christian flag case

If it creates an open forum, Boston cannot discriminate based on different perspectives, the court ruled.

The Independent UK

Supreme Court rules against Boston in Christian flag case

A unanimous Supreme Court has ruled that Boston violated the free speech rights of a conservative activist when it refused his request to fly a Christian flag on a flagpole outside City Hall

The Independent UK

Justices limit discrimination claims for emotional distress

The Supreme Court has upheld the dismissal of a discrimination lawsuit filed by a deaf and legally blind woman against a physical therapy business that wouldn’t provide an American Sign Language interpreter for her appointments

Reason

Justice Breyer Cites His Boss's Concurrence in Heart of Atlanta Motel

Six decades ago, a young Stephen Breyer clerked for Justice Goldberg on a very, very different Supreme Court.

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SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Breyer's last chance to hypothesize

The fertile mind of Justice Stephen Breyer has conjured a stream of hypothetical questions through the years that have, in the words of a colleague, “befuddled” lawyers and justices alike

Tribune News Service

Stephen L. Carter: Ketanji Brown Jackson won’t lose her seat if Breyer ‘unretires’

What happens to Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson if Justice Stephen Breyer changes his mind and decides not to retire? The question and its variants keep coming up. After all, there’s no vacancy to be filled until Breyer actually steps down at the end of the Supreme Court’s current term. If…

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Robe & Gavel: SCOTUS concludes arguments for 2021-2022 term

Welcome to the April 25 edition of Robe & Gavel, Ballotpedia’s newsletter about the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) and other judicial happenings around the U.S.

The Independent UK

AP-NORC poll: Many support Jackson court confirmation

More Americans approve than disapprove of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court as its first Black female justice, a new poll finds, but that support is politically lopsided

Tribune News Service

Biden signs Jackson’s Supreme Court commission early in unusual move

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden signed papers to appoint Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this month even though she can’t begin work until Justice Stephen Breyer retires this summer.

Reason

May the President Prospectively Appoint a Supreme Court Justice to a Seat that Is Not Yet Vacant? (Updated)

A newly released memo from the Office of Legal Counsel suggests the answer is "yes."

The Guardian - US

Much ado about Doug: second gentleman takes spotlight at Shakespeare debate

Doug Emhoff, Kamala Harris’s husband, argues in a mock trial hosted by the Shakespeare Theatre Company and presided over by Stephen Breyer

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