Constitutional Law Reporter

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Mississippi v. Tennessee: The case involves an interstate water dispute between the states of Mississippi and Tennessee. The post Supreme Court Kicks Off Term With Oral Arguments in Five Cases appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. 2254(d)(1), as the U.S.

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JURIST

AUGUST 6, 2023

The US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that an 1890 state constitutional provision permanently preventing people convicted of certain felonies from voting, Section 241, is unconstitutional. This end-justifies-means analysis has no place in constitutional law.”

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

One of the most striking claims made in the Washington Post column was the following: “The importance of a state-law consensus is why antiabortion advocates have long rested their argument on the similar claim that when the 14th Amendment was ratified, 27 of the 37 states banned abortion throughout pregnancy.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 27, 2022

He tends to resist the Court ordering radical changes as evident in his sole concurrence in Dobbs where he wanted to preserve Roe but uphold the Mississippi law. Roberts is the ultimate incrementalist and institutionalist. In that respect, kicking this issue to February is perfectly predictable.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Indeed, as I previously wrote , efforts to create a new federal law or new federal enforcement effort to create a new basis for challenges by pro-life litigators. The fact is that a greater challenge to Roe is not coming from Texas but Mississippi.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 25, 2021

1982), the Supreme Court addressed a boycott of white-owned businesses in Mississippi. I cannot sign any form promising not to boycott Israel.” ” She was then denied the contract. In NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Sebelius ); the majority supports Mississippi in its ban on abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy. The Mississippi law put the line along that earlier quickening stage. This case has attracted the third highest number of briefs in the court’s history (after leading same-sex marriage case in Obergefell v.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 20, 2021

Wade , a case that not only would transform constitutional law but political divisions in the United States. The court just accepted review in a Mississippi case that could deliver a crippling, or even lethal, blow to Roe. Here is the column: Fifty years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court heard the first arguments in Roe v.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 10, 2021

That track originates in Mississippi, not Texas. The Court again rejected the notion of enjoining the judge and clerk but it did identify some private parties who can be sued as part of a pre-enforcement action. That represents a partial victory for pro-choice litigants, but the Court returned to a single track for its abortion review.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Jackson Women’s Health Organization , out of Mississippi, is a more ominous threat to abortion rights with a newly constituted conservative majority on the court — including Justice Amy Coney Barrett who, as an academic before joining the court, was highly critical of Roe v. For pro-choice advocates, the pending case of Dobbs v.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

During an illustrious career as a constitutional law scholar and a top Supreme Court advocate, Walter Dellinger argued 24 times before the court, including in some of the biggest cases of the past 30 years. Mackell , Piel raised a constitutional challenge to New York’s criminal anarchy law. And in Adickes v. 2, 2022).

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JonathanTurley

MAY 17, 2021

The Mississippi law at issue banned abortions after 15 weeks — seven weeks earlier than past laws passing constitutional muster. State legislators have been passing laws like live torpedos on the water and this one just hit with a 6-3 conservative court.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 4, 2021

” Barrett was asking about the burden claims expressly made by the challengers to the Mississippi law. Kendi described her for adopting two Haitian children as virtual body snatching by a “white colonizer.” That is her job to define what are the countervailing interests and burdens of the parties.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

I do view this law as containing unconstitutional elements. These laws have been enacted in other states, including Louisiana, Mississippi, Virginia and Utah. However, this is likely to be just the start to a long series of challenges and appeals. Here is the opinion: Free Speech Coalition v. Colmenero

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a challenge to the Mississippi abortion law. She said many abortion opponents, including the sponsors of the Mississippi abortion law at issue, hoped her three new colleagues would allow for the reversal or reduction of Roe v.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 3, 2021

While the media and politicians were decrying the recent Texas abortion law and misrepresenting the Court’s order in that case , the real and immediate threat to Roe v. Dobbs involves a challenge to a 2018 Mississippi law that banned most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Wade (and Planned Parenthood v.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 3, 2022

At issue is whether Mississippi can impose a 15-week limit on abortions. Here’s just a partial list of what is coming in the new year: Abortion. The country is awaiting a decision by June in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Moreover, the justices agreed that the law could be challenged as a “pre-enforcement” action against some of the private parties. Jackson Women’s Health Organization , the Mississippi case that is likely to reframe or reverse Roe. 24 — was actually proposed in 2013, long before either the Mississippi or Texas laws were enacted.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 7, 2022

Now a Harvard poll reaffirms earlier polling that shows most Americans embrace views closer to Mississippi than Michigan on abortion. Indeed, while Democratic leaders denounced the Mississippi law setting a 15-week limit on abortion, 72 percent of those polled support that limit. A poll conducted after the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Challenges to the Texas law will take months. When Texas was enacting its law in May, the Supreme Court accepted a Mississippi case with a fundamental challenge in Dobbs v. But the most immediate threat to Roe is already on the docket. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Jackson Women’s Health Organization , the potentially momentous abortion case concerning a Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Amicus briefs supporting Mississippi. The Christian Legal Society and Robertson Center for Constitutional Law , Concerned Women for America , and Judicial Watch, Inc.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 27, 2022

While many countries have decriminalized abortion, most are closer to Mississippi than Michigan in limiting abortion to the first or second trimester. These polls suggest that the majority of Americans will continue to live in states protecting abortion while citizens would support limits like the one in Mississippi.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Ten states apply this rule to primaries: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, and Vermont. That part of the opinion was upheld by the appellate court , though the court was reversed on other grounds.

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