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“Be Aggressive and Go All the Way”: Abortion Could be Headed Back to the Supreme Court

JonathanTurley

Such changes are like the shifting of tectonic plates, triggering earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in the legal lithosphere. In the law, the adjustment can take years, as collateral doctrines and applications shake out along new fault lines. Wade as federal law.” Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

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Sioux Tribe Imposes Language Criterion For Priority Vaccinations

JonathanTurley

There is a controversy developing in North and South Dakota where The Standing Rock Sioux tribe is prioritizing speakers of its native languages for its COVID-19 vaccine distribution. Federal and state laws do apply on Indian reservations despite their status as self-regulating states.

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What to Expect in a Post-Roe World

JonathanTurley

That world is already taking shape with states crafting their laws reflecting the values of their citizens from Colorado passing a law protecting the right to abortion up to the moment of birth to Louisiana banning all abortions except in limited circumstances. Below is my Hill column on what to expect in a post-Roe world.

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Amendments by Acclamation: Democrats Move to Simply Declare the Equal Rights Amendment as Ratified

JonathanTurley

They have sought to negate state election laws and impose their own federal election standards on states. Before and after the ERA was passed by Congress in 1972, a variety of state and federal laws have been passed to enforce prohibitions on discrimination on the basis for gender and enforce equality rules in pay, promotions and programs.

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