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SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 24, 2022
The Supreme Court on Friday eliminated the constitutional right to obtain an abortion, casting aside 49 years of precedent that began with Roe v. In one of the most anticipated rulings in decades, the court overturned Roe , which first declared a constitutional right to abortion in 1973, and Planned Parenthood v.
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. Jones argued that under two of the court’s recent decisions, 2012’s Miller v.
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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. But the majority of the court unraveled this holding. 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.
Constitutional Law Reporter
DECEMBER 27, 2021
Supreme Court heard oral arguments in one of the term’s most closely-watched cases. However, in defending its controversial abortion law, the State of Mississippi has asked the Court to overturn its prior decisions in Roe v. Board of Education, in which the Court overruled precedent and established new constitutional law.
Constitutional Law Reporter
JANUARY 3, 2022
Supreme Court heard oral arguments in one of the term’s most closely-watched cases. However, in defending its controversial abortion law, the State of Mississippi has asked the Court to overturn its prior decisions in Roe v. Board of Education, in which the Court overruled precedent and established new constitutional law.
SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 1, 2021
Outside the Supreme Court building, crowds of demonstrators have gathered for today’s major argument in Dobbs v. And just six minutes before 10, Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch arrives with state Solicitor General Scott Stewart, who will argue in defense of the state’s prohibition on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
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