honestly kind of surprising how many people don't wish to accept this. nevertheless it remains.

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Pope gets a pass here because Vatican citizenship is contingent on the office, and when a Pope resigns they don’t automatically get another office (like Cardinal) that comes with Vatican citizenship. If he didn’t keep US citizenship, he risks being stateless or worse … Italian.

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For sure. One thing I also wonder about a U.S. citizen head of a foreign sovereign is: would we be obligated to treat them as a foreign head of state? I would argue if they’ve not expressed an intent to relinquish US nationality, we maintain jurisdiction over them as we do any other citizen.

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Judge Wardlaw, concurring, does not think any remnant right to abortion survived Dobbs.

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I find the question genuinely fascinating, and I can see both the normative and the positive arguments from both sides. I genuinely don't even know which side of it I personally would land on!

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