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Supreme Court Breach Is Not the First Involving Roe v. Wade

Constitutional Law Reporter

Supreme Court. However, it is not the first time that a landmark abortion decision was made public before the Court announced its decision. What makes the current disclosure so monumental is that the entire draft opinion was leaked. Leak of Draft Decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

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Were the Framers Really Pro-Choice? Not Likely

JonathanTurley

I recently wrote a column on how abortions were treated as crimes at the time of the drafting of the Constitution. The assertions made by Professor Tang have been refuted by scholars like John Finnis, professor emeritus of Law and Legal Philosophy at Oxford University, and Robert P.

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2022

SCOTUSBlog

Share At the end of each year, SCOTUSblog remembers some of the people whose lives and work left an imprint on the Supreme Court. From legendary lawyers to lesser-known activists, journalists, and plaintiffs, the following individuals who died in 2022 all shaped the court and the law in their own ways. David Beckwith (Oct.

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Tick, Tick, Tick…: The Supreme Court Readies an Explosive Docket for 2022

JonathanTurley

Below is my column in the Hill on upcoming year for the Supreme Court. The Court’s docket is likely to put the institution at ground zero of a heated election year. Here is the column: The late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg once observed that “it’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.”

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