Mississippi Abortion Decision Due as Amy Coney Barrett Joins Supreme Court

Mississippi’s law allows for abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy only when the mother’s life or major bodily function is endangered, or when the baby has a severe abnormality and would not be able to survive outside the womb at full term.


WASHINGTON — As new Justice Amy Coney Barrett takes her seat at the Supreme Court, one of the first decisions on her desk will be the court’s consideration of whether to review Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban.

Last Thursday, Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch asked the Supreme Court to review the case of the state’s law banning most abortions after 15 weeks. The law had been blocked by a district court in 2018, and an appeals court judge upheld that ruling in December, 2019. Mississippi then appealed the case to the Supreme Court.


The case has been distributed at the Supreme Court for consideration; as soon as Friday, Oct. 30, justices could decide whether to accept the case for review.

The Senate confirmed Barrett to the Supreme Court on Monday, and she was then sworn in to the Court by Justice Clarence Thomas at the White House. A former law professor at the University of Notre Dame, Barrett is a Catholic mother of seven children, including two adopted children from Haiti. She served on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals after being confirmed by the Senate in 2017.


During her 2020 confirmation hearings, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee asked her to opine on the Court’s abortion rulings, including on Roe v. Wade and PlannedParenthood v. Casey. Barrett declined to do so, repeatedly affirming that it would be improper for her to speculate on cases that could appear before her as a future justice.

However, Barrett said at her nomination ceremony in September that her judicial philosophy is that “a judge must apply the law as written.” She has also said she believes in applying relevant Supreme Court precedent to cases, where it exists.

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Mississippi Abortion Decision Due as Amy Coney Barrett Joins Supreme Court

grandvizier1006 said:

Good, we can get one win in before Biden packs the court! The decision will probably something along the lines of “a 15 week ban is constitutional“, and other red states will be able to enact similar laws. I imagine that blue states will be entirely unaffected, but we’ll still hear woke Twitter whining about it.

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'This isn't anything new,' McConnell tells 'Fox News @ Night' in exclusive interview

Democrats who have floated the idea of expanding the size of the Supreme Court are simply reiterating "long-standing threats," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told "Fox News @ Night" Monday.


"They've been threatening to pack the court [since] before the [Amy Coney] Barrett nomination came along [and] before Justice [Ruth Bader] Ginsburg passed away," McConnell told host Shannon Bream. "These are long-standing threats.

"They may have ratcheted up a little bit lately, but this isn't anything new," McConnell added. "They've been promising to blow up the Senate by changing the filibuster rule, admitting two new states -- [Washington] D.C. and Puerto Rico -- to give them four new Democratic senators ... They were talking about that earlier in the year. Nothing new, same old threats and intimidation by the hard left."

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez D-N.Y., on Monday, tweeted "Expand the court," immediately after the confirmation of Barrett.

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McConnell: Democrats' call to pack Supreme Court is 'the same old threats and intimidation'