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Arkansas governor signs near-total abortion ban

JURIST

Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson signed one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion bans into law on Tuesday in the hope of having the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Anyone performing or attempting to perform an abortion could be found guilty of a felony and subject to up to $100,000 in fines and up to 10 years in prison.

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Abortion Punished by 10 Years in Prison Under Oklahoma Law

The Crime Report

Kevin Stitt has signed a bill that makes performing an abortion in the state a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $100,000 fine, reports the Washington Post. Oklahoma Gov.

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Beards and Brady (i.e., religious freedom and criminal procedure)

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Ward , Lester Smith maintains that the Georgia Department of Corrections is not following the Supreme Court’s 2015 decision in Holt v. Nevertheless, the district court also rejected Smith’s request for an untrimmed beard, letting Georgia impose a three-inch limit. However, both the district court and the U.S.

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US Supreme Court strikes down lower court injunctions on state abortion laws

JURIST

The US Supreme Court on Thursday vacated three orders issued by lower courts in Arizona, Indiana, and Arkansas that had invalidated state-level abortion on the grounds of Roe v. This follows the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe last Friday. The 2019 Arkansas ruling in Little Rock Planning Services v.

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Animal rights and the First Amendment, due process and a confession of error

SCOTUSBlog

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The court denied cert on Monday. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan, filed an opinion dissenting from the court’s denial of summary vacatur.

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Abortion Battle Enters Second Phase

The Crime Report

Some of these states had inactive preexisting laws banning abortion that have returned to effect in the wake of Roe, while others intentional passed “trigger laws” with language enacting their provisions the moment a court decision overturning Roe or an amendment or legislation codifying a state’s right to restrict abortion went into effect.

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Hunter’s Collapsing World: Why a Criminal Plea Could Now be the Best Option for the Bidens

JonathanTurley

Below is my column in The Hill on the hearing today in Arkansas involving Hunter Biden and his daughter Navy Joan. A court will now have to decide whether this child can call herself a Biden and whether her father can reduce his level of financial support. The reason seems clear: Time is running out on Hunter and the Biden family.

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