Court Litigating Mississippi Statute 
JURIST
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
The Minnesota Supreme Court Wednesday upheld a state law prohibiting convicted felons from voting while on probation or parole in a 3-1 ruling. The court rejected this argument. Justice Thissen’s opinion also held that the statute did not create the racially disparate impact of felony disenfranchisement.
SCOTUSBlog
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
Share When he ran for president in 2016, then-candidate Donald Trump promised to nominate Supreme Court justices who would vote to end the constitutional right to an abortion. If the court were to overturn Roe and Casey , access to abortion in America would shrink dramatically and immediately. Katie Barlow).
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SCOTUSBlog
AUGUST 30, 2021
Share A Texas law that bans abortions anytime a fetal heartbeat is detected will “immediately and catastrophically reduce abortion access in Texas” if it is allowed to take effect on Wednesday, a group of abortion providers told the Supreme Court on Monday. The Mississippi case, Dobbs v. 1 effective date.
SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 29, 2021
Share Two months ago, Texas put in place the most restrictive abortion law since the Supreme Court decided Roe v. The answer to that question may come in a separate abortion case , involving Mississippi, scheduled for argument on Dec. Wade in 1973. Nevertheless, the two Texas cases — Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson and United States v.
SCOTUSBlog
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Monday in two challenges to S.B. But Monday’s argument focused primarily on the law’s unusual enforcement mechanism, which distinguishes it from similar abortion bans that have been enacted by other states (and that have been consistently struck down by federal courts). 1 at 5:45 p.m.
HowAppealing
DECEMBER 10, 2021
“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”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. ” David G. ” David G. .”
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 9, 2021
Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, the viability of certain types of disability-based claims under three federal statutes. courts of appeals are “nearly evenly divided” on this issue, the county asks for the justices’ review. Mississippi. Exby-Stolley.
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