The lawyer tasked with defending Mississippi’s 15-week abortion limit in front of the U.S. Supreme Court did so in the face of “overwhelming advice” not to demand the overturn of Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, Mollie Hemingway’s new book Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court and Restored the Constitution details.
A cabal of “elite Supreme Court litigators” tried to warn Mississippi State Solicitor General Scott Stewart against using Dobbs v. Jackson to target the high bench’s abortion precedent because they believed it would be a “devastating mistake.” The litigator was unconvinced.
