Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 21, 2022

Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit erred in denying the Kentucky attorney general’s motion to intervene on the commonwealth’s behalf in litigation concerning Kentucky House Bill 454, the state’s controversial abortion law. Although the litigation by that time had proceeded for years, that factor is not dispositive.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Among the slew of challenges to state abortion laws after the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization , a newly filed action in Kentucky may be one of the most creative. It flips the script on past religious based arguments against abortion and say that Kentucky “has imposed sectarian theology on Jews.”

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Constitutional Law Reporter

OCTOBER 18, 2021

.: Through more than two years of litigation, the Secretary of Kentucky’s Cabinet for Health and Family Services led the state’s legal defense of its law prohibiting abortions in which an unborn child is dismembered while still alive. We will be closely following these cases, as well as the others on the Court’s docket.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 27, 2022

As this matter returns to the states, it is striking to consider what has changed legally and socially in the past 50 years. In the Dobbs litigation of 2022, 26 states asked the court to overturn Roe and its successor, Casey. Roughly 16 states are poised or expected to make abortion illegal immediately under so-called trigger laws.

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