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High Court Decision Called ‘Alarming Reversal’ in  Youth Justice

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“The court is fooling no one,”” Justice Sonia Sotomayor said in her dissent. She argued the Court has offered no “special justification,” as required, for breaking from the precedent set in Mille r and has therefore circumvented stare decisis , the legal principle that states the court must follow previous precedents.

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

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Three physicians and the Catholic Association Foundation write that advances in science have “painted an intimate portrait of the fetus and its humanity” and therefore the court’s viability framework is outdated. Against stare decisis. State abortion restrictions, they say, should be subject only to rational-basis review.