Battle for the Constitution: Week of September 10th, 2021 Roundup

Below is a round-up of the latest from the Battle for the Constitution: a special project on the constitutional debates in American life, in partnership with The Atlantic.

The Justices Are Telling Us What They Think About Roe v. Wade

By Mary Ziegler, Stearns Weaver Miller Professor at Florida State University College of Law

Legal scholar Mary Ziegler argues that the Court’s recent order in Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson (2021), declining to enjoin a highly restrictive Texas abortion statute, indicates that a majority of justices are prepared to reverse Roe v. Wade (1973) but would prefer to do so in a way that avoids provoking major political backlash.