[[link removed]] Ms. Memo: This Week in Women's Rights
December 7, 2022
From the ongoing fight for abortion rights and access, to elections, to the drive for the Equal Rights Amendment, there are a multitude of battles to keep up with. In this weekly roundup, find the absolute need-to-know news for feminists.
After Alito’s Hobby Lobby Leak, It’s Official—The Supreme Court Has Been Compromised [[link removed]]
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Security fencing surrounds the U.S. Supreme Court on June 6, 2022. The potential leaks of Justice Samuel Alito’s Hobby Lobby opinion and his opinion overturning Roe v. Wade this year have created a crisis of confidence in the Court. (Drew Angerer / Getty Images)
BY RAKIM H. D. BROOKS | Right before Thanksgiving, the New York Times reported some disturbing news about the Supreme Court: In 2014, Justice Samuel Alito allegedly leaked the impending decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby to anti-choice lobbyists weeks before the Court publicly issued it.
This is just the latest revelation of inappropriate contact Alito has had with conservative activists, adding further confirmation that the Court’s right flank has worked with far-right activists to advance an extreme conservative agenda, particularly around abortion access.
It’s not news that the Court’s conservatives have a political motivation for their opinions. After all, President Trump promised to appoint justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade , and then they did just that.
But this revelation about Alito is different. It suggests something more sinister: that some of the justices are acting in concert with conservative movement leaders, leaking opinions, signaling outcomes, and backchanneling. This is disturbing and devastating. The rule of law cannot survive if the judiciary ceases to be independent. We now have the first unquestionable sign that the Court’s independence has been profoundly compromised.
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What we're reading
Because it's hard to keep up with everything going on in the world right now. Here's what we're reading this week:
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"Libraries:
Where
Abortion
Access
and
Book
Bans
Collide”
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The
Progressive
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"She
Wanted
an
Abortion.
A
Judge
Said
She
Wasn’t
Mature
Enough
to
Decide.”
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ProPublica
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