10 things you need to know today: May 6, 2022

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1. Supreme Court gets 'unscalable' fence

Workers on Wednesday started putting up an "unscalable" eight-foot fence at the Supreme Court as protests continued over a leaked draft opinion that, as written, would overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision establishing a constitutional right to abortion. The barrier is similar to the one built at the Capitol after the Jan. 6 attack. Abortion-rights and anti-abortion activists have gathered near the Supreme Court since Monday, when Politico published the draft opinion. Chief Justice John Roberts said the opinion was authentic but not final. The high court is expected to issue its ruling in June or July in the case, a challenge to a Mississippi ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.