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US Supreme Court rules on life imprisonment for juveniles

JURIST

Alabama and 2016’s Montgomery v. ” Even if the court had “doubts” about that rule, they should have provided “special justification” before overruling Miller and Montgomery , which they failed to do: How low this Court’s respect for stare decisis has sunk.

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High Court Decision Called ‘Alarming Reversal’ in  Youth Justice

The Crime Report

Alabama (2012), the court ruled that mandatory life in prison without parole for juvenile offenders was cruel and unusual punishment, violating the Eighth Amendment. In Miller v. Four years later, in Montgomery v. “The The court is fooling no one,”” Justice Sonia Sotomayor said in her dissent.

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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. These arguments are unpersuasive for several reasons.

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