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Roe Redux: Is The Viability Test Still Viable as a Constitutional Doctrine?

JonathanTurley

This case has attracted the third highest number of briefs in the court’s history (after leading same-sex marriage case in Obergefell v. Hodges and the ObamaCare ruling in NFIB v. Sebelius ); the majority supports Mississippi in its ban on abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy.

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Court on a Hot Tin Roof: Airing Out “the Stench” from the Oral Argument Over Abortion

JonathanTurley

Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a challenge to the Mississippi abortion law. The statement seemed directed at Sotomayor’s three new colleagues and the effort to use the new court composition to seek the reduction or overturning of Roe v. Here is the column: In Wednesday’s Supreme Court oral argument in Dobbs v.