Constitutional Law Reporter

JANUARY 3, 2022

However, in defending its controversial abortion law, the State of Mississippi has asked the Court to overturn its prior decisions in Roe v. Meanwhile, the Court’s liberal minority emphasized the importance of stare decisis, arguing that the Court’s decisions should not be impacted by the changing membership of the Court.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 6, 2021

For us, Supreme Court precedent, yes stare decisis, is loud and clear : Women, and the privacy and integrity of our bodies and our equal status under law, are written in the silent ink of the Constitution through the fifth and fourteenth amendments.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch and her team are urging the court to reverse Roe and return this issue to legislatures, the proper realm for policymaking. Anthony List hope the court will do precisely what Mississippi and a dozen other states request. The abortion providers’ case relies heavily on stare decisis.

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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. They are not the only figures showing such selective outrage.

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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

DECEMBER 1, 2021

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. After a few questions from Thomas, the chief justice zeroes in on Mississippi’s 15-week ban.

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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. The only real question was how far the justices might go.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 17, 2021

The Mississippi law at issue banned abortions after 15 weeks — seven weeks earlier than past laws passing constitutional muster. He only voted with his liberal colleagues because he felt bound by stare decisis to follow the 2016 decision in Whole Woman’s Health v.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Wednesday’s argument in Dobbs , which involves a Mississippi ban on almost all abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy, comes 30 days after the court heard arguments in another consequential abortion controversy: a pair of challenges to a six-week abortion ban that took effect in Texas on Sept. Mississippi’s arguments.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Sebelius ); the majority supports Mississippi in its ban on abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy. To uphold Roe , the court likely will require more than the usual arguments of stare decisis , the doctrine that the court should generally stand by its precedents. Hodges and the ObamaCare ruling in NFIB v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

And in December, a majority of the court appeared ready to uphold a Mississippi law that (with limited exceptions) bans abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy. At the oral argument in Dobbs v.

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