The Crime Report

MAY 18, 2021

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. Earlier this year, the Supreme Court in Jones v. In Miller v.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

But today, the only attendees will be the three arguing lawyers (and their second chairs), essential court personnel, most if not all of the justices’ law clerks, two spouses of justices, three sketch artists, and 18 news correspondents. They’ve poisoned the law. And in due time, the justices themselves.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Since about the time these lawyers were born, the days were waning when the Constitution was only for men; we attended law school when, for the first time in history, female students began to equal the number of male students. It is an assault on our very lives and freedom.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 7, 2022

8, a Texas law that bans nearly all abortions in the state. Although the law conflicted directly with Roe v. Casey , the court’s long-standing decisions holding that the Constitution protects the right to have an abortion before a fetus can survive outside the womb, the court nonetheless allowed the law to go into effect on Sept.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Jackson Women’s Health Organization , the potentially momentous abortion case concerning a Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Amicus briefs supporting Mississippi. Against stare decisis. Many amici focus on the principle of stare decisis – and urge the court not to follow it in this case.

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