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Dobbs did not top the list of things I wanted to talk about on vacation.
— Justice Amy Coney Barrett, discussing the aftermath of the controversial Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision in her new memoir, “Listening to the Law” (affiliate link), set to be published on September 9. Barrett, who in the book defends the part she played in overturning the right to abortion established by Roe v. Wade, recounts a time when her brother-in-law came to a family vacation with a copy of the Dobbs decision, saying he was following her instructions to “read the opinion.”
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