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Oklahoma House approves bill banning abortions except in medical emergencies

JURIST

The Oklahoma House of Representatives voted Tuesday to enact a law that makes it a felony to perform or attempt to perform an abortion, except to save the life of the pregnant woman in a medical emergency. Wade, which has guaranteed women’s constitutional right to an abortion for almost 40 years.

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Comstocking Sexting: Oklahoma Bill Seeks to Criminalize Sending Lewd Images Outside of Marriage

JonathanTurley

It appears that Anthony Comstock is having something of a revival in Oklahoma. Oklahoma Senate Bill 1976 would also make posing or exhibiting such images. Now, a bill not only contains an expansive definition of lewd material but would criminalize even the viewing “obscene materials” by unmarried individuals.

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The morning read for Thursday, September 21

SCOTUSBlog

Here’s the Thursday morning read: Supreme Court can let West Point keep affirmative action (Noah Feldman, Washington Post) I teach constitutional law. Supreme Court arguments have gotten way too long.

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The morning read for Friday, Sept. 10

SCOTUSBlog

Justice Gorsuch Tears Up Oklahoma (Editorial, The Wall Street Journal). Some Not Very Focused Preliminary Thoughts About the Shadow Docket (But Leading Up to Some Fundamentals about Constitutional Law) (Mark Tushnet, Balkinization). God Has No Place in Supreme Court Opinions (Linda Greenhouse, The New York Times).

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Arizona dispatch: student delegates to Model Constitutional Convention pass proposed amendments on equal rights, tribal sovereignty, gerrymandering and eminent domain limits

JURIST

But the Convention came together to declare that equal rights, including rights for women and LGBTQ+ people, should be a fundamental value of American constitutional law. The second amendment that passed was an amendment enshrining tribal sovereignty in the US Constitution.

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Calling New Patent Law Professors

Patently O

Note that top ranked law schools rarely advertise for particular subject matter areas. The new hire then starts work the following summer.

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Who’ll Shoot First? How Relaxed Gun Rules Fuel a ‘Small Arms Race’

The Crime Report

According to law professors Guha Krishnamurthi of the University of Oklahoma College of law and Peter Salib of the University of Houston Law Center, this public concern is warranted. Guha Krishnamurthi is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Oklahoma College of Law.

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