Drafting Mississippi Statute 
SCOTUSBlog
JANUARY 24, 2025
Reynolds Vapor Company and a group of retailers based in Texas and Mississippi, primarily fielded questions from just two justices, Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson a promising sign for his clients. During 72 minutes of oral arguments, almost all of the justices peppered Vivek Suri, the assistant to the U.S.
SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 30, 2021
New York finds solace in the Statute of Northampton (1328), which forbade any person to “bring no force in affray of the peace, nor to go nor ride armed” in certain places. Sir John Knight (1686) read the statute to prohibit “going or riding armed in affray of peace,” i.e., in a manner “to terrify the King’s subjects.”
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SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Josh Gerstein of Politico, with his colleague Alexander Ward, broke the story of the leaked draft opinion in Dobbs v. Justice Clarence Thomas, asking whether any bodies of water were excluded from the statute, notes that he grew up “in low country Georgia and you had standing water. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
The Crime Report
JUNE 21, 2022
A legal team for the National Right to Life Committee , which describes itself as the largest anti-abortion group in the country, has drafted model anti-abortion legislation for states to adopt, in addition to criminalizing abortion, the Independent reports. The Court is expected to release its opinion on Mississippi’s Dobbs v.
JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
I recently wrote a column on how abortions were treated as crimes at the time of the drafting of the Constitution. The state of Mississippi makes this claim in Dobbs v. By 1858 a majority of states had statutes criminalizing abortion at all stages. This claim is wrong, grounded on a series of historical errors.
HowAppealing
DECEMBER 10, 2021
“Supreme Court Allows Challenge to Texas Abortion Law but Leaves It in Effect; The law, which bans most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, was drafted to evade review in federal court and has been in effect since September”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. ” David G. .”
SCOTUSBlog
JULY 7, 2022
Jackson Women’s Health Organization , a challenge to a Mississippi law that bans almost all abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy, that a majority of the court was ready and willing to roll back abortion rights. Instead, the court simply interpreted the two statutes at issue by looking primarily at the statutes’ text and structure.
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