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Beware of Plan Bs: The White House Push to ‘Codify Roe’ Goes Far Beyond the Status Quo

JonathanTurley

The justice recently called upon students to campaign against abortion laws in anticipation of abortion cases this term, declaring: “You know, I can’t change Texas’s law, but you can and everyone else who may or may not like it can go out there and be lobbying forces in changing laws that you don’t like.”.

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Supreme Court Rejects Injunction of Texas Abortion Law But Allows the Challenge to Proceed in Lower Court

JonathanTurley

That represents a partial victory for pro-choice litigants, but the Court returned to a single track for its abortion review. That track originates in Mississippi, not Texas. Dobbs will remain the key decision on reproductive rights and is likely to answer many of the questions in the ongoing Texas litigation.

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The Appeal of Chaos: How Politicians and Pundits are Misconstruing The Supreme Court’s Order on the Texas Abortion Law

JonathanTurley

Not only is there a pending case on the docket of the Court that has long been viewed as a serious threat to Roe , but the White House and the House of Representatives are threatening immediate actions that could also create new challenges for pro-choice litigants. Challenges to the Texas law will take months. to codify Roe.

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“The Light is Better Here”: Garland Pledges To Protect Abortion Clinics From “Attack”

JonathanTurley

Indeed, as I previously wrote , efforts to create a new federal law or new federal enforcement effort to create a new basis for challenges by pro-life litigators. The fact is that a greater challenge to Roe is not coming from Texas but Mississippi.

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

SCOTUSBlog

During an illustrious career as a constitutional law scholar and a top Supreme Court advocate, Walter Dellinger argued 24 times before the court, including in some of the biggest cases of the past 30 years. And in 1981, she wrote one of the first law-review articles on domestic violence. Walter Dellinger (May 15, 1941 – Feb.

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Roe Roulette: Biden Administration Takes a gamble with emergency appeal of Texas abortion law

JonathanTurley

Jackson Women’s Health Organization , out of Mississippi, is a more ominous threat to abortion rights with a newly constituted conservative majority on the court — including Justice Amy Coney Barrett who, as an academic before joining the court, was highly critical of Roe v. For pro-choice advocates, the pending case of Dobbs v.

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

JonathanTurley

At issue is whether Mississippi can impose a 15-week limit on abortions. After Dobbs was accepted, advocates sought to enjoin a Texas law that banned abortion after just six weeks. The court ruled 5-4 to allow the Texas law to be enforced. Here’s just a partial list of what is coming in the new year: Abortion.

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