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

Constitutional Law Reporter

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.

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Can More Jury Trials Save the Justice System?

The Crime Report

“Expansion of the jury trial right would constitute a meaningful structural reform in democratizing criminal justice, at a time when such change is needed to establish the popular legitimacy of the criminal justice system,” writes J.D. King in a paper published in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law.

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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. Casey , in which he argued in support of Pennsylvania abortion restrictions. Burger even demanded that the magazine’s editors fire Beckwith for “espionage.”

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

JonathanTurley

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. .” In 1971, the Supreme Court handed down Cohen v.

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How A Snap Impeachment Could Shatter Our Constitutional Balance

JonathanTurley

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.” The governing legal standard for violent speech is found in Brandenburg v.