SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 24, 2022
He agreed with the majority that the Mississippi abortion restriction at issue in the case should be upheld, but in a separate opinion, he argued that the court should not have overturned Roe. Jackson Women’s Health Organization , a challenge to a 2018 Mississippi law that bans virtually all abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy.
The Crime Report
MAY 18, 2021
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. Earlier this year, the Supreme Court in Jones v.
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JURIST
APRIL 24, 2021
Mississippi that when sentencing juvenile defendants to life imprisonment with no possibility of parole, judges need not make a separate factual finding concerning the defendant’s youth. The US Supreme Court ruled Thursday in Jones v. The challenge came from Brett Jones, who was convicted in 2004 of killing his grandfather at age 15.
SCOTUSBlog
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Share Mary Ziegler is a law professor at Florida State University and the author of Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. 8 , the Texas law, added a new wrinkle to the so-called heartbeat laws that have become standard fare in conservative states. Wade to the Present.
Constitutional Law Reporter
DECEMBER 27, 2021
However, in defending its controversial abortion law, the State of Mississippi has asked the Court to overturn its prior decisions in Roe v. Board of Education, in which the Court overruled precedent and established new constitutional law. Wade and Planned Parenthood v.
Constitutional Law Reporter
JANUARY 3, 2022
However, in defending its controversial abortion law, the State of Mississippi has asked the Court to overturn its prior decisions in Roe v. Board of Education, in which the Court overruled precedent and established new constitutional law. Wade and Planned Parenthood v.
SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 1, 2021
But today, the only attendees will be the three arguing lawyers (and their second chairs), essential court personnel, most if not all of the justices’ law clerks, two spouses of justices, three sketch artists, and 18 news correspondents. They’ve poisoned the law. And in due time, the justices themselves.
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