Constitutional Law Reporter
MAY 10, 2022
What makes the current disclosure so monumental is that the entire draft opinion was leaked. Leak of Draft Decision in Dobbs v. On May 2, 2022, Politico published a draft opinion by Justice Alito that would overrule the Supreme Court’s controversial decision in Roe v. Wade and erase 50 years of abortion law precedent.
JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
I recently wrote a column on how abortions were treated as crimes at the time of the drafting of the Constitution. The assertions made by Professor Tang have been refuted by scholars like John Finnis, professor emeritus of Law and Legal Philosophy at Oxford University, and Robert P.
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SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 31, 2022
This spring, after POLITICO published a draft opinion of Dobbs and revealed that the court was poised to overturn Roe , Beckwith praised the leak. Mackell , Piel raised a constitutional challenge to New York’s criminal anarchy law. Burger even demanded that the magazine’s editors fire Beckwith for “espionage.” And in Adickes v.
JonathanTurley
JANUARY 3, 2022
At issue is whether Mississippi can impose a 15-week limit on abortions. In the latest badly drafted gun law to go before the court, New York has forced a challenge that could result in a major ruling reinforcing individual rights under the Second Amendment. The country is awaiting a decision by June in Dobbs v.
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