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

SCOTUSBlog

This spring, after POLITICO published a draft opinion of Dobbs and revealed that the court was poised to overturn Roe , Beckwith praised the leak. As associate counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in the 1960s, she helped litigate civil-rights cases in the South. And in Adickes v. 12, 1935 – Oct.

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Tick, Tick, Tick…: The Supreme Court Readies an Explosive Docket for 2022

JonathanTurley

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.

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