Affiliation: The author is an attorney in private practice in Illinois who specializes in state and federal constitutional appellate litigation and legislative consulting. Mr. Linton, the former General Counsel for Americans United for Life, has submitted amicus curiae briefs in several Supreme Court abortion cases, including Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992) and Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022). Mr. Linton has published more than two dozen law review articles on a variety of topics, as well as the only comprehensive analysis of abortion as a state constitutional right, Abortion Under State Constitutions (3d ed. 2020) (Carolina Academic Press). Mr. Linton received his law degree from Loyola University of Chicago.
