WJI's daily reads for May 11, 2022

Slate: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's "domestic supply of infants" footnote.

It’s chilling because it lifts us out of a discussion about privacy and bodily autonomy and into a regime in which babies are a commodity and pregnant people are vessels in which to incubate them. If this sounds like a familiar, albeit noxious, economic concept– it’s because it is.

Courthouse News: Wisconsin school not responsible for guard's "full frontal" hugs, Seventh Circuit says.

Politico: Will Alito crown a new "Great Dissenter?"

Roll Call: End of COVID energency could hurt people seeking help for drug abuse.

In the two years since the COVID-19 pandemic has begun, the Drug Enforcement Administration has allowed providers to prescribe the gold-standard addiction treatment to patients with opioid use disorder through telehealth without first doing an in-person evaluation that addiction experts say is a barrier to underserved communities.

The DEA said starting treatment via a telehealth visit would be acceptable during a pandemic that led people to avoid doctors’ offices and where substance abuse treatment facilities saw fewer patients.
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Some groups, including people living in rural areas and others released from incarceration, especially benefited, clinicians say. They worry that such groups won’t be able to make in-person visits at the end of the public health emergency unless Congress or the DEA take action. 

Border Report: Legal advocates decry anti-immigration "judicial pipeline."

Reuters: Biden administration urges U.S. Supreme Court to let weedkiller verdict against Bayer to stand.

Bayer last August petitioned the justices to reverse a lower court's decision that upheld $25 million in damages awarded to California resident Edwin Hardeman, a Roundup user who blamed his cancer on the German pharmaceutical and chemical giant's glyphosate-based weedkillers.

The Verge: ICE is running a surveillance dragnet with little oversight, report says.

According to details in American Dragnet: Data-Driven Deportation in the 21st Century, ICE has used a combination of public records and privately acquired information to build a surveillance system that can investigate the majority of US adults with little oversight. The agency now has access to the driver’s license data of three-quarters of US adults (74 percent) and has already run facial recognition scans on the license photographs of 1 in 3 adults (32 percent). And when three out of four adults hooked up utilities like gas, water, and electricity in a new home, ICE was able to automatically update their new address.

Brennan Center for Justice: Are concealed carry laws next on the agenda for the U.S. Supreme Court?