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Roe v. Wade hangs in balance as reshaped court prepares to hear biggest abortion case in decades

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And even if the court does not formally overturn Roe and Casey , a decision weakening those precedents would permit new abortion restrictions, perhaps including bans on some early-stage abortions. In Dobbs , Mississippi and its supporters are urging the court to answer that question with a full-throated “no.”. Katie Barlow).

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

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This case has attracted the third highest number of briefs in the court’s history (after leading same-sex marriage case in Obergefell v. Hodges and the ObamaCare ruling in NFIB v. Sebelius ); the majority supports Mississippi in its ban on abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy.

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In a historic term, momentum to move the law often came from the five justices to the chief’s right

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Jackson Women’s Health Organization , a challenge to a Mississippi law that bans almost all abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy, that a majority of the court was ready and willing to roll back abortion rights. The only real question was how far the justices might go. And in West Virginia v.

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

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Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a challenge to the Mississippi abortion law. The statement seemed directed at Sotomayor’s three new colleagues and the effort to use the new court composition to seek the reduction or overturning of Roe v. Here is the column: In Wednesday’s Supreme Court oral argument in Dobbs v.