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Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization (2022)
Overturned Roe v Wade ruling there was no constitutional right to abortion allowing states to decide
(rare reversal of long settled law)
Roe v Wade (1973)
the court ruled that a women’s right to terminate a pregnancy is protected under the fourteenth amendment (‘freedom of personal choice in matters of marriage and family life’)
Fourteenth amendment
State should not deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law
Obergefell v Hodges (2013)
court ruled that state bans to same sex marriage were a violation of the fourteenth amendment as Ohio state would not recognise Obergefell’s marriage
Same sex marriage legalised nationwide by supreme court
26th June 2015
Rasul v Bush (2004)
ruled detainees had access to federal courts to challenge their detention at Guantanamo Bay
