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High Court Decision Called ‘Alarming Reversal’ in  Youth Justice

The Crime Report

Earlier this year, the Supreme Court in Jones v. Mississippi ruled judges do not need to make a factual finding of “permanent incorrigibility” when deciding to sentence a juvenile offender to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Photo courtesy Mississippi Department of Corrections.

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US House committee weighs seating Cherokee Nation delegate

JURIST

The treaty eventually led to the forced removal of the Cherokee Nation from its land east of the Mississippi and the deaths of many Cherokee Natives on the Trail of Tears. This hearing served as an opportunity for the House committee to discuss and explore the potential legal and political implications of seating the selected delegate.

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America’s Hidden ‘Constitution-Free Zones’

The Crime Report

Besides Minnesota, the area includes Arkansas, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Texas. In effect, this means that nearly 60 million Americans live in states where the courts offer absolute immunity to federal officers who violate someone’s constitutional rights.

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“Supreme Court Allows Challenge to Texas Abortion Law but Leaves It in Effect; The law, which bans most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, was drafted to evade review in federal court and has been in effect since September”

HowAppealing

.” Tyler Olson of Fox News reports that “ Supreme Court lets challenge to Texas abortion law proceed, allows law to remain in effect; Ruling comes as Supreme Court considers major Mississippi abortion case, too.” ” Reese Oxner of The Texas Tribune reports that “ U.S.

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Arizona senate committee approves 15-week abortion ban

JURIST

The bill comes amidst the much-anticipated Supreme Court decision on Mississippi’s abortion law, which has the potential to drastically transform abortion rights in the US. will always have the means to travel abroad to places where abortion is safe and legal.”

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Modernize U.S. abortion law — and return abortion policy to the democratic process

SCOTUSBlog

Dobbs poses the best opportunity in decades to revisit some of the court’s most contentious precedents and modernize U.S. Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch and her team are urging the court to reverse Roe and return this issue to legislatures, the proper realm for policymaking. We at Susan B.

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

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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. Numerous groups attack the viability standard that the court adopted in Roe v. Share More than 140 amicus briefs were filed in Dobbs v.