The Crime Report
JUNE 21, 2022
A legal team for the National Right to Life Committee , which describes itself as the largest anti-abortion group in the country, has drafted model anti-abortion legislation for states to adopt, in addition to criminalizing abortion, the Independent reports. The Court is expected to release its opinion on Mississippi’s Dobbs v.
SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 30, 2021
New York finds solace in the Statute of Northampton (1328), which forbade any person to “bring no force in affray of the peace, nor to go nor ride armed” in certain places. Sir John Knight (1686) read the statute to prohibit “going or riding armed in affray of peace,” i.e., in a manner “to terrify the King’s subjects.”
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SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Josh Gerstein of Politico, with his colleague Alexander Ward, broke the story of the leaked draft opinion in Dobbs v. Justice Clarence Thomas, asking whether any bodies of water were excluded from the statute, notes that he grew up “in low country Georgia and you had standing water. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
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. .”
JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
I recently wrote a column on how abortions were treated as crimes at the time of the drafting of the Constitution. The state of Mississippi makes this claim in Dobbs v. By 1858 a majority of states had statutes criminalizing abortion at all stages. This claim is wrong, grounded on a series of historical errors.
SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 31, 2022
This spring, after POLITICO published a draft opinion of Dobbs and revealed that the court was poised to overturn Roe , Beckwith praised the leak. she represented a white teacher who had been arrested after trying to dine with six Black students at a segregated Mississippi lunch counter. And in Adickes v. Kress & Co. , 2, 2022).
SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 29, 2021
The answer to that question may come in a separate abortion case , involving Mississippi, scheduled for argument on Dec. Texas, Pitman explained, purposely drafted S.B. 8 “to preclude review by federal courts that have the obligation to safeguard the very rights the statute likely violates.” Jackson and United States v.
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