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Roe Redux: Is The Viability Test Still Viable as a Constitutional Doctrine?

JonathanTurley

The oral argument is scheduled for December 1st, the same week that the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit will hear an expedited appeal over the even more stringent Texas abortion law. Indeed, the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a critic of Roe , seeing it as too sweeping in supplanting state laws.

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Vice President Kamala Harris Slams “Activist” Supreme Court

JonathanTurley

Indeed, this issue came up in my exchanges with Professor Elizabeth Sepper of the University of Texas at Austin School of Law. However, in the interpretation of the Constitution, justices are fulfilling an oath to “ support and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.)

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Court on a Hot Tin Roof: Airing Out “the Stench” from the Oral Argument Over Abortion

JonathanTurley

Justices Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer insisted that overturning Roe in whole or in part would bring ruin upon the court by abandoning the principle of stare decisis , or the respect for precedent. Texas , which overturned prior precedent allowing the criminalization of homosexual relations. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.)

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We read all the amicus briefs in Dobbs so you don’t have to

SCOTUSBlog

Trinity Legal Center and Catholic Medical Association, National Association of Catholic Nurses-USA, Idaho Chooses Life and Texas Alliance for Life make similar arguments. Against stare decisis. Many amici focus on the principle of stare decisis – and urge the court not to follow it in this case.