"In a 5-4 opinion, the high court overruled the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that struck down all state abortion bans and legalized the procedure throughout the country. The justices also invalidated the 1992 Planned Parenthood v. Casey opinion that affirmed Roe." - BPNews
NR: A Stain Erased
"The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Maine can't exclude religious schools from a program that offers tuition aid for private education, a decision that could ease religious organizations’ access to taxpayer money." - C.Index
"...originalism did not begin with answers. It began when Robert Bork faced the Warren Court’s 'Because!' and asked: 'But why?' Why these rulings and not others?.... The entire originalist-textualist project sprang from the search for an answer to these questions, for a bulwark against an earlier Supreme Court’s ipse dixit." - Law & Liberty
"Caught in a national firestorm, Christian groups focus on local needs of women preparing for babies." - C.Today
"In a statement released on Tuesday morning, Chief Justice John Roberts confirmed the authenticity of a draft majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that would overturn the precedents set in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey." - N.Review
Related, from The Dispatch (podcast): Making Sense of the Supreme Court Leak
"In a unanimous ruling, justices agree the city violated the First Amendment by keeping religious views out of a space being used as a public forum." - C.Today
"The U.S. Supreme Court weighed lengthy arguments April 25 regarding whether a high school football coach’s post-game prayer at midfield violates the First Amendment’s ban on government establishment of religion." - BPNews
"The Senate has voted 53 to 47 to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as the 116th Supreme Court justice. When sworn in this summer, Jackson will be the first Black woman to serve on the nation's high court." - NPR
