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US Supreme Court rules on life imprisonment for juveniles

JURIST

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. The post US Supreme Court rules on life imprisonment for juveniles appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.

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High Court Decision Called ‘Alarming Reversal’ in  Youth Justice

The Crime Report

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.

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“Feelings run high”: Two hours of tense debate on an issue that divides the court and the country

SCOTUSBlog

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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Roe Redux: Is The Viability Test Still Viable as a Constitutional Doctrine?

JonathanTurley

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. Sebelius ); the majority supports Mississippi in its ban on abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy.

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Modernize U.S. abortion law — and return abortion policy to the democratic process

SCOTUSBlog

Pro-life advocates argue laws like Mississippi’s Gestational Age Act , a 15-week abortion limit, are clearly constitutional. abortion law, which currently allows unlimited abortion up to birth under Roe v. abortion law, which currently allows unlimited abortion up to birth under Roe v. Law professor Helen Alvaré et al.

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Court on a Hot Tin Roof: Airing Out “the Stench” from the Oral Argument Over Abortion

JonathanTurley

Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a challenge to the Mississippi abortion law. She said many abortion opponents, including the sponsors of the Mississippi abortion law at issue, hoped her three new colleagues would allow for the reversal or reduction of Roe v. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) Federal Election Commission.

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Guest Commentary: Dobbs v. Jackson and Juliana v. United States: “Innumerable Human Lives”

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

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. Wade to Plessy v.