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Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Photo: AP/AFP-Getty Images If the Supreme Court held an end-of-term awards ceremony, the Old College Try Prize for excellent effort with zero success would go to Chief Justice John Roberts for his plaintive concurring opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Chief Justice Roberts tried to discover a center floor on abortion, upholding the state of Mississippi’s prohibition after 15 weeks, whereas declining to overturn Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992) in whole. But he drew no assist from anybody, together with all-or-nothing pro-choice advocates and…

June 24, 2022 5:24 pm ET Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia speaks in Washington, Nov. 6, 2014. Photo: Kevin Wolf/Associated Press Justice Antonin Scalia dissenting in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, June 29, 1992: There is a poignant facet to at the moment’s opinion. Its size, and what may be known as its epic tone, recommend that its authors imagine they’re bringing to an finish a hard period within the historical past of our Nation and of our Court. “It is the dimension” of authority, they are saying, to “cal[l] the contending sides of national controversy to end their national division…

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D.,N.Y.) leaves after talking to abortion-rights activists in entrance of the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday. Photo: Nathan Howard/Getty Images In their extra candid moments even leftist luminaries just like the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg admitted vital flaws in Roe v. Wade. But now that the Supreme Court has returned the contentious challenge of abortion to the individuals and their elected representatives, Roe’s flaws don’t make it any simpler for some activists to simply accept that every state will now be free to set its personal insurance policies. It’s comprehensible to be deeply dissatisfied and even…

Demonstrators name on President Biden to guard ladies’s sports activities in Washington, June 23. Photo: Michaal Nigro/Zuma Press Bernice Sandler, the “godmother of Title IX,” mentioned the laws she helped to jot down was “the most important step for gender equality since the 19th Amendment gave us the right to vote.” Title IX turned 50 this week, and it hasn’t aged nicely. Title IX bans discrimination “under any educational program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.” Buried within the Education Amendments of 1972, the supply was dubbed by ESPN the “37 words that changed everything” for ladies’s sports activities. It…

Catherine Lhamon in 2018. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The Biden Administration launched its proposed Title IX rule Thursday, and right here we go once more. The Department of Education would restrict due course of for accused college students, and its new definition of sexual harassment is on a collision course with the First Amendment. In 2020 former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos finalized a Title IX rule to revive due-process protections for these accused on campus of sexual harassment or assault. Obama Title IX czar Catherine Lhamon denounced the reform as a return “to the bad old days, that predate my…

Pro-abortion rights advocates stage a protest outdoors the home of Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito in May. Photo: kent nishimura/pool/Shutterstock Protests erupted Friday in Washington after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, and larger disruptions are potential. Yet to date the Justice Department has refused to implement federal legislation to maintain the peace on the private properties of the Justices. That’s regardless of a request by Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin and Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan. “Hundreds of demonstrators have recently chosen to picket Supreme Court Justices at their homes in Virginia and Maryland,” the 2 Governors wrote final…

A clinic escort stands exterior the Jackson Women’s Health Organization clinic in Jackson, Miss., calling out to incoming sufferers that the clinic continues to be open, moments after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade was issued on Friday. Photo: Rogelio V. Solis/Associated Press Now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, abortion may quickly grow to be unlawful in half of the nation. Or so Democrats warn. But it’s unattainable to understand how the talk will play out in lots of states. And a research this month by the Guttmacher Institute, which helps abortion rights,…

June 24, 2022 10:57 am ET British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on June 23. Photo: dan kitwood/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images If Boris Johnson plans to execute one in every of his trademark feats of inconceivable political survival, he’d higher do it quickly. The U.Okay. prime minister suffered one other setback Thursday in two parliamentary by-elections, casting his future again into doubt. Mr. Johnson’s Conservative Party was defending the 2 seats after Tory incumbents have been pressured to resign amid scandals. Wakefield in Yorkshire, within the north, is without doubt one of the so-called Red Wall seats Mr. Johnson gained in 2019.…

Photo: Getty Images I grew up throughout from a firehouse. When the siren wailed in our suburban New Jersey city, the volunteer firefighters scrambled to park their vehicles and leap over a wood fence to the storage doorways. The candy-apple crimson hearth engine would rumble out inside minutes. Our native firefighters hung onto the truck as they took off to avoid wasting the day. This spectacle by no means bought outdated, regardless of my age, however solely now do I recognize how the firefighting custom crosses generations. One firefighter I admired lived three homes from ours, so he dashed to…

Demonstrators rally exterior the Supreme Court in Washington, Nov. 3, 2021. Photo: Jose Luis Magana/Associated Press We are blessed to have represented earlier than the Supreme Court all kinds of purchasers, from massive companies and non secular orders to felony defendants and Native American teams. After we prevail earlier than the excessive courtroom, we usually obtain a spherical of congratulatory messages from law-firm colleagues for a job effectively completed, particularly when we have now helped our purchasers vindicate their elementary constitutional rights. This time round, we acquired a really completely different message from our legislation agency. Having simply secured a…