JonathanTurley

MAY 17, 2021

The Mississippi law at issue banned abortions after 15 weeks — seven weeks earlier than past laws passing constitutional muster. State legislators have been passing laws like live torpedos on the water and this one just hit with a 6-3 conservative court. Hellerstedt that addressed a virtually identical law.

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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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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 5, 2021

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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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

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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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

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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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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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Twenty-one states have laws in place that would ban all or nearly all abortions if Roe and Casey fell. In Dobbs , Mississippi and its supporters are urging the court to answer that question with a full-throated “no.”. The Mississippi law and the court’s abortion precedents. Mississippi’s arguments. Katie Barlow).

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

Perhaps because of his straightforward style, Breyer was the author of three landmark decisions striking down state laws that sought to restrict access to abortion. Breyer stressed that because the Nebraska law did not have any exception to protect the health of the mother, it was unconstitutional.

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