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Georgia Supreme Court upholds 6-week abortion ban

JURIST

The Georgia Supreme Court upheld the state’s six-week abortion ban on Tuesday, voiding certain provisions of the Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act. The LIFE Act established certain limitations and provisions surrounding access to abortion within the state of Georgia.

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US Supreme Court hears oral arguments in public prayer, execution method cases

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The US Supreme Court Monday heard oral arguments for Kennedy v. Bremerton School District , the court will decide whether a public school employee has the right, under the First Amendment, to pray in view of students on the football field. The district court ruled in favor of the that the school district. In Kennedy v.

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Federal Court Rules In Favor Of Journalist Contesting Georgia’s Anti-BDS Law

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This week, a court in Georgia became the latest to declare such laws unconstitutional. The case was brought by journalist Abby Martin who was denied a contract as a keynote speaker at Georgia Southern University due to her support of the BDS movement. I cannot sign any form promising not to boycott Israel.” In NAACP v.

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Supreme Court to decide whether insurrection provision keeps Trump off ballot

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Share The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Thursday in what is shaping up to be the biggest election case since its ruling nearly 25 years ago in Bush v. Although the question comes to the court in a case from Colorado, the impact of the court’s ruling could be much more far-reaching. And on Dec.

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Animal rights and the First Amendment, due process and a confession of error

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Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The court denied cert on Monday. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan, filed an opinion dissenting from the court’s denial of summary vacatur.

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Justices add confrontation-clause case to next term’s docket

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On Monday, the Supreme Court agreed to take up the case of Darrell Hemphill , who was convicted for the 2006 shooting death of a child, who was a passenger in a car that drove by a fight on a street in the Bronx. Share The Sixth Amendment gives a defendant in a criminal prosecution the right “to be confronted with the witnesses against him.”

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2020

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A government lawyer who argued at the Supreme Court more than anyone else in the 20th century. As the year comes to a close, SCOTUSblog looks back at some of the individuals who died in 2020 after living lives that brought them – at different times and for different reasons – to the Supreme Court of the United States.

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