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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.
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.
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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.
JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
Jackson Women’s Health Organization , the Court’s most watched case this term on abortion rights. 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.
SCOTUSBlog
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
Jackson Women’s Health Organization , the Supreme Court will consider one question: “Whether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional.” Pro-life advocates argue laws like Mississippi’s Gestational Age Act , a 15-week abortion limit, are clearly constitutional. A preview of the case is here. In Dobbs v.
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. Here is the column: In Wednesday’s Supreme Court oral argument in Dobbs v.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
DECEMBER 6, 2021
The arguments before the Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Would this newly-comprised Roberts Court now contemplate leaving to the vote of state legislatures our rights to be admitted to the practice of law or to not be discriminated against in other respects as women, because of our Constitution’s “silence” or “neutrality”?
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