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Rhodes Alumni Launch Campaign to Remove Justice Barrett from School’s Hall of Fame

JonathanTurley

However, Rob Marus and Katherine Morgan Breslin also authored a letter in 2020 opposing the confirmation of Barrett as “diametrically opposed to the values of truth, loyalty, and service that we learned at Rhodes.”. According to the letter, the signatories’ “firm belief in the Rhodes Honor Code we all signed impels us to make this request.”

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Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Major Abortion Challenge

JonathanTurley

Russo (2020). He only voted with his liberal colleagues because he felt bound by stare decisis to follow the 2016 decision in Whole Woman’s Health v. The decision comes a year after pro-choice groups were able to secure a plurality decision in June Medical Services v.

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How the Supreme Court Laid the Foundations for ‘Racialized Policing’

The Crime Report

When Berkeley Law School Dean and constitutional scholar Erwin Chemerinsky taught Criminal Procedure in the Fall of 2019, he became frustrated when he realized many of the cases that were the subject of his lectures ended with the police winning and the rights of suspects losing. Or does stare decisis make it stuck as a precedent?

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Roe Redux: Is The Viability Test Still Viable as a Constitutional Doctrine?

JonathanTurley

Indeed, the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a critic of Roe , seeing it as too sweeping in supplanting state laws. To uphold Roe , the court likely will require more than the usual arguments of stare decisis , the doctrine that the court should generally stand by its precedents.