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Abortion Rights Took Center Stage During Busy Week for Supreme Court

Constitutional Law Reporter

Supreme Court heard oral arguments in one of the term’s most closely-watched cases. However, in defending its controversial abortion law, the State of Mississippi has asked the Court to overturn its prior decisions in Roe v. Board of Education, in which the Court overruled precedent and established new constitutional law.

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Abortion Rights Took Center Stage During Busy Week for Supreme Court

Constitutional Law Reporter

Supreme Court heard oral arguments in one of the term’s most closely-watched cases. However, in defending its controversial abortion law, the State of Mississippi has asked the Court to overturn its prior decisions in Roe v. Board of Education, in which the Court overruled precedent and established new constitutional law.

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We read all the amicus briefs in Dobbs so you don’t have to

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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. Numerous groups attack the viability standard that the court adopted in Roe v. The viability framework.

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2022

SCOTUSBlog

Share At the end of each year, SCOTUSblog remembers some of the people whose lives and work left an imprint on the Supreme Court. From legendary lawyers to lesser-known activists, journalists, and plaintiffs, the following individuals who died in 2022 all shaped the court and the law in their own ways. David Beckwith (Oct.

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Pornhub Wins Free Speech Challenge to New Verification and Warning Laws

JonathanTurley

District Court for the Western District of Texas ruled that a Texas law requiring age-verification and warning labels about the alleged dangers of porn contravenes the First Amendment. The court found that “the statute is not narrowly tailored and chills the speech of Plaintiffs and adults who wish to access sexual materials. [it]

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Federal Court Rules In Favor Of Journalist Contesting Georgia’s Anti-BDS Law

JonathanTurley

We have been discussing the state laws requiring contractors and employees to swear that they do not support the the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (“BDS”) movement against Israel. I have long maintained that the law is unconstitutional as a limitation of free speech and associational rights. In NAACP v. Recently, the U.S.

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The Appeal of Chaos: How Politicians and Pundits are Misconstruing The Supreme Court’s Order on the Texas Abortion Law

JonathanTurley

Below is my column in The Hill on reaction to the refusal of the Supreme Court to enjoin the Texas abortion law. The order of the Court expressly did not reach the merits and certainly did not, as claimed, overturn Roe v. The Texas law is not even the greatest threat to Roe. 1 to demand emergency court intervention.

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