New Supreme Court Term Set to Be One for the Ages

The Supreme Court s docket contains cases on which tens of millions of Americans will fixate between now and the term s conclusion next summer. Indeed, the forthcoming cases include some of the most important and divisive issues of our time: abortion, gun rights, religious liberty, and racial equality. Let s consider a few.

Bathed in the center-stage spotlight will be Dobbs v. Jackson Women s Health Organization in which the Court will consider the constitutionality of a Mississippi law banning nearly all abortions after 15 weeks.

With Dobbs, public interest will be supercharged because of the nature of the constitutional challenge. In deciding to hear the case, the justices took up the question of whether all bans on pre-viability elective abortions are unconstitutional. (As of now, viability falls somewhere around 24 weeks gestation so the state of Mississippi s law seems to be in stark conflict.) The answer to that question, then, bears directly on the status of the Court s precedent in Roe v. Wade (1973) and its follow-on case, Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992).

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