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Supreme Court Breach Is Not the First Involving Roe v. Wade

Constitutional Law Reporter

Supreme Court. However, it is not the first time that a landmark abortion decision was made public before the Court announced its decision. What makes the current disclosure so monumental is that the entire draft opinion was leaked. Leak of Draft Decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

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Can More Jury Trials Save the Justice System?

The Crime Report

King in a paper published in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law. percent of federal criminal cases in 1962, but just over 2 percent in 2015, effectively turning trials into what former Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy called “a system of pleas, not a system of trials.”

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2022

SCOTUSBlog

Share At the end of each year, SCOTUSblog remembers some of the people whose lives and work left an imprint on the Supreme Court. From legendary lawyers to lesser-known activists, journalists, and plaintiffs, the following individuals who died in 2022 all shaped the court and the law in their own ways. David Beckwith (Oct.

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New Jersey Woman Triggers Free Speech Case With Profane Anti-Biden Signage

JonathanTurley

Bundy of Roselle Park Municipal Court that she must remove the offending signs. ” In 1971, the Supreme Court handed down Cohen v. California in which it overturned the conviction of Paul Robert Cohen for the crime of disturbing the peace by wearing a jacket declaring “F**k the Draft” in a California courthouse.

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How A Snap Impeachment Could Shatter Our Constitutional Balance

JonathanTurley

Indeed, it would be considered protected speech by the Supreme Court. So let’s walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.” The most obvious is the 1918 prosecution of socialist Eugene Debs, who spoke passionately against the draft in World War I and led figures like President Wilson to declare him a “traitor to his country.”