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Constitutional Law Reporter
MAY 10, 2022
What makes the current disclosure so monumental is that the entire draft opinion was leaked. Leak of Draft Decision in Dobbs v. On May 2, 2022, Politico published a draft opinion by Justice Alito that would overrule the Supreme Court’s controversial decision in Roe v. Wade and erase 50 years of abortion law precedent.
SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 31, 2022
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. In 1973, Beckwith was a recent graduate of law school and was working as a political reporter for TIME magazine. Read past years’ remembrances: 2021 , 2020.
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JonathanTurley
JANUARY 3, 2022
At issue is whether Mississippi can impose a 15-week limit on abortions. After Dobbs was accepted, advocates sought to enjoin a Texas law that banned abortion after just six weeks. The court ruled 5-4 to allow the Texas law to be enforced. Here’s just a partial list of what is coming in the new year: Abortion.
JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
The Washington Post has been criticized for running a column by Aaron Tang , professor of law at the University of California at Davis, claiming an originalist basis for the right to abortion. I recently wrote a column on how abortions were treated as crimes at the time of the drafting of the Constitution.
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