Legal Mississippi Stare Decisis Statute 
SCOTUSBlog
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
Wednesday’s argument in Dobbs , which involves a Mississippi ban on almost all abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy, comes 30 days after the court heard arguments in another consequential abortion controversy: a pair of challenges to a six-week abortion ban that took effect in Texas on Sept. Mississippi’s arguments.
SCOTUSBlog
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
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. Against stare decisis. Many amici focus on the principle of stare decisis – and urge the court not to follow it in this case.
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JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
Despite annual columns questioning such apocalyptic predictions, which often seemed more political than legal, the granting of Dobbs led me to write my first “this could be it” column. Sebelius ); the majority supports Mississippi in its ban on abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy. Hodges and the ObamaCare ruling in NFIB v.
SCOTUSBlog
JULY 7, 2022
Jackson Women’s Health Organization , a challenge to a Mississippi law that bans almost all abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy, that a majority of the court was ready and willing to roll back abortion rights. Instead, the court simply interpreted the two statutes at issue by looking primarily at the statutes’ text and structure.
JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 5, 2021
Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a challenge to the Mississippi abortion law. She said many abortion opponents, including the sponsors of the Mississippi abortion law at issue, hoped her three new colleagues would allow for the reversal or reduction of Roe v. They are not the only figures showing such selective outrage.
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