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. Against stare decisis. Many amici focus on the principle of stare decisis – and urge the court not to follow it in this case. 1 in support of that law.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

But today, the only attendees will be the three arguing lawyers (and their second chairs), essential court personnel, most if not all of the justices’ law clerks, two spouses of justices, three sketch artists, and 18 news correspondents. They’ve poisoned the law. And in due time, the justices themselves.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In an unsigned opinion, the court ruled that Terence Andrus had demonstrated that his lawyer provided deficient performance at sentencing for failing to investigate or introduce mitigating evidence. The law defines an animal facility as any place that houses or breeds animals used for food production, agriculture, or research.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 8, 2022

However, according to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers , less than 3 percent of criminal cases have gone to trial in the last five decades. But they were still frog-marched into a plea bargain by their defense attorney or the prosecutor or the judge or some combination thereof. Photo by Brandy Brewer.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Since about the time these lawyers were born, the days were waning when the Constitution was only for men; we attended law school when, for the first time in history, female students began to equal the number of male students. As lawyers, as women, as mothers, as advocates for children’s rights, we could easily despair.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 4, 2022

After all, in 1985, Alito wrote as a Justice Department lawyer that the Constitution does not contain a right protecting abortions. He first repeated the facts (by noting that he was a Justice Department attorney at the time) and then went rote: “Today if the issue were to come before me. I accept the law of the land, senator, yes.”

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