Happy Monday, I’m Eriq Gardner.

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The Supreme Court has, of course, revealed its big abortion decision. I knew it was coming, and yet I was still not mentally prepared. On Friday, I scrapped what I had been planning this week to address the fallout. Today’s email tackles whether Corporate America is truly prepared for the disruptive mayhem that will ensue in a post-Roe world. Plus Rupert Murdoch, Charles Harder, Quentin Tarantino, Alec Baldwin, Paul Clement, Meghan Markle, and Clarence Thomas’s attempt to reverse six decades of libel law.

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Is offering reimbursement for abortion travel more than a gesture? Will it amount to a brave act? Do these announcements foreshadow some willingness to fight for abortion rights? And if not, can Corporate America even avoid the turmoil to come? These are hard questions to answer because I’m not convinced that executives have really grappled with the post-Dobbs mayhem ahead. After all, until now, most companies have remained on the sidelines of the abortion debate...