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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

This spring, after POLITICO published a draft opinion of Dobbs and revealed that the court was poised to overturn Roe , Beckwith praised the leak. Mackell , Piel raised a constitutional challenge to New York’s criminal anarchy law. Burger even demanded that the magazine’s editors fire Beckwith for “espionage.” And in Adickes v.

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