A huge question in the case is the importance of something called starry decisis. In k c, this court carefully examined and rejected every possible reason for overruling roe. Chief justice john roberts signalled that he thought using this case as a vehicle to overrule ro is going too far. And how dod the nine justices on the supreme court receive arguments from each side to day.
The Supreme Court today heard oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health. Vox’s Ian Millhiser explains how the Court could undo Roe v. Wade without overruling it.
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