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Jonathan Franklin Mitchell (born September 2, 1976) is an American lawyer, academic, and legal theorist who served as the Solicitor General of Texas from 2010 to 2015. He has argued seven cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.
Feb 8, 2024 · The lawyer for Mr. Trump, Jonathan F. Mitchell, 47, is best known for drafting anti-abortion laws that ultimately led the Supreme Court to abolish the constitutional right to the procedure. One...
- Abbie Vansickle
Jan 5, 2023 · Jeannie Suk Gersen on the lawyer Jonathan Mitchell, the mind behind S.B. 8, which challenged abortion rights in Texas before Roe v. Wade was overruled.
- Jeannie Suk Gersen
May 8, 2023 · Jonathan Mitchell, pictured on April 27 inside the statehouse in Austin, Texas, is credited with devising the legal strategy behind the near-total abortion ban in Texas known as S.B. 8. In...
- Sarah Mccammon
Sep 12, 2021 · Jonathan F. Mitchell grew increasingly dismayed as he read the Supreme Court’s decision in June 2016 striking down major portions of a Texas anti-abortion bill he had helped write.
May 7, 2023 · Jonathan Mitchell is the creator of Senate Bill 8, a near-total ban on abortion in Texas. He's also the legal strategist behind similar efforts by conservative activists in...
Jonathan Mitchell is a lawyer and scholar who devised the novel enforcement mechanism in the Texas Heartbeat Act, which avoids pre-enforcement judicial review of abortion bans. He has also argued before the Supreme Court of the United States and published numerous works of scholarship in top-10 law journals.
