Supreme Court gears up for a blockbuster term that is likely to produce the most important ruling on abortion in 30 years and a long-awaited decision on the issue of carrying guns outside the home.
and a follow-on decision in Casey v. Planned Parenthood, which said states can impose some restrictions on abortion but cannot ban it before fetal viability, generally considered to be 23 to 24 weeks into a pregnancy., saying the state chose"to pass a law it knew was unconstitutional to enforce a decades-long campaign" against Roe v. Wade. The 5th U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed the ruling, so the state appealed to the Supreme Court.
Paul Smith, a veteran Supreme Court litigator who teaches at Georgetown University's law school, said the court is unlikely to entirely accept or reject Mississippi's position but could, instead, seek a middle ground. The justices took nearly a year to decide that they would take up the Mississippi challenge."That doesn't suggest that they were grabbing on to the case to attack Roe and Casey," said Jeffrey Wall, who was acting solicitor general at the Justice Department during the Trump administration.
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