This morning, as I sat on the plane bound for Virginia to visit my assistant, Vicki, I thought about some of the things I would accomplish today. One of them was going to be updating the website with a proud blog announcement of my selection as a Super Lawyer for 2022, which is my 11th consecutive year of blah, blah, blah…. but now I just can’t. The announcment feels hollow and while I’m proud of the award, I can’t bring myself to write the post I had hoped, because today, my friends, is a black day.

Today is the day that the Supreme Court of the United States allowed politics to override precedent.

Today the Court decided that the states have the right—unfettered by our Constitution—to determine how I exercise my bodily autonomy.

Today, it has begun. Make no mistake, it is a slippery slope from today’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade and its progeny to future decisions on who we can marry and what we can do in the privacy of our own homes.

Today I mourn the rule of law in this country. Celebrations can wait. Plans have changed.

“With sorrow—for this Court, but more, for the many millions of American women who have today lost a fundamental constitutional protection—we dissent.” — Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, 597 U.S. ____ (2022)(Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan, J.J., dissenting).

And so do I.