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US House committee weighs seating Cherokee Nation delegate

JURIST

The treaty eventually led to the forced removal of the Cherokee Nation from its land east of the Mississippi and the deaths of many Cherokee Natives on the Trail of Tears. Native American Law Professor Lindsay Roberts, and legislative attorney from the Congressional Research Service Mainon Schwartz.

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As Courts Decline to Review Louisiana Solitary Confinement Laws, I remember My Time in A Louisiana Penitentiary

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The Hope case involved a Texas inmate who at the time of the Fifth Circuit decision had spent 27 years in solitary confinement in that state’s penal system—a system that leads the nation in holding people in solitary confinement for the longest periods of time. Supreme Court seeking review of the Fifth Circuit decision in the Hope case.

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America’s Hidden ‘Constitution-Free Zones’

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Our nonprofit law firm, the Institute for Justice , represents her. Besides Minnesota, the area includes Arkansas, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Texas. Supreme Court to overturn a decision from the 8th U.S. The public interest law firm also has offices in Minneapolis.

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Michigan governor signs executive order protecting citizens from extradition relating to abortions

JURIST

In May, a Michigan judge granted an injunction to stop the state’s 1931 law banning abortion. The injunction came after the Supreme Court’s leaked decision overturning Roe v. Wade —the Supreme Court decision guaranteeing a constitutional right to abortion. Wade in their decision in Dobbs v.

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

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Jackson Women’s Health Organization , the Supreme Court will consider one question: “Whether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional.” Pro-life advocates argue laws like Mississippi’s Gestational Age Act , a 15-week abortion limit, are clearly constitutional. Law professor Helen Alvaré et al.

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We read all the amicus briefs in Dobbs so you don’t have to

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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. Numerous groups attack the viability standard that the court adopted in Roe v. 1 in support of that law.