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High Court Decision Called ‘Alarming Reversal’ in  Youth Justice

The Crime Report

The decision follows multiple previous precedents set by the Court over the past decade that sharply limited courts’ ability to sentence a juvenile offender to life in prison without parole, the lawyers wrote. The court is fooling no one,”” Justice Sonia Sotomayor said in her dissent. In Miller v.

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Modernize U.S. abortion law — and return abortion policy to the democratic process

SCOTUSBlog

The abortion providers’ case relies heavily on stare decisis. Their brief asserts that not one but “two generations … have come to depend on the availability of legal abortion” – that essentially women have built their lives around abortion. When decisions prove hopelessly unworkable, doubling down is senseless.

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