Court Rules Laws Mississippi Stare Decisis 
JURIST
APRIL 24, 2021
The US Supreme Court ruled Thursday in Jones v. Mississippi that when sentencing juvenile defendants to life imprisonment with no possibility of parole, judges need not make a separate factual finding concerning the defendant’s youth. … For most, the answer is yes. . … For most, the answer is yes.
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 24, 2022
He agreed with the majority that the Mississippi abortion restriction at issue in the case should be upheld, but in a separate opinion, he argued that the court should not have overturned Roe. The court’s three liberals, Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan, filed a joint dissent.
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The Crime Report
MAY 18, 2021
Earlier this year, the Supreme Court in Jones v. Mississippi ruled judges do not need to make a factual finding of “permanent incorrigibility” when deciding to sentence a juvenile offender to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Photo courtesy Mississippi Department of Corrections. In Miller v.
SCOTUSBlog
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Share Mary Ziegler is a law professor at Florida State University and the author of Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Casey in 1992, the hallmark of the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence has been an effort to take the abortion issue seriously. In some ways, the court’s inaction can tell us only so much about the fate of Roe v.
JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
The oral argument is scheduled for December 1st, the same week that the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit will hear an expedited appeal over the even more stringent Texas abortion law. Hodges and the ObamaCare ruling in NFIB v. The court ruled 5-4 to allow the Texas law to be enforced.
JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 5, 2021
Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a challenge to the Mississippi abortion law. The statement seemed directed at Sotomayor’s three new colleagues and the effort to use the new court composition to seek the reduction or overturning of Roe v. The 1896 ruling of Plessy v. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.)
SCOTUSBlog
JULY 7, 2022
Share If the Supreme Court’s 2021-22 term had a soundtrack, it might be “With or Without You,” the 1987 anthem by the Irish rock group U2. The new balance of power on the court was on display before the term officially began, when the justices rejected a request to block enforcement of S.B. Wade and Planned Parenthood v.
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