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SCOTUS Stays Enforcement of EPA's "Good Neighbor" Air Pollution Rule (Updated)

In a 5-4 decision, the male justices side with the state and industry challengers and the female justices side with the Environmental Protection Agency

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Justices Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch Dissent On An "Emotional and Highly Politicized" Case

And they charge that Justices Barrett and Kavanaugh "lost the will" to decide the case.

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A Blue June?

June 2022 was one victory after another for conservatives. June 2024 seems just the opposite.

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The Three Trump Appointees In Rahimi

Justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett are fracturing over originalism.

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Tradition In Erlinger

Justice Jackson thinks Apprendi was wrongly decided, Justice Gorsuch chides Justice Kavanaugh's fixation on tradition.

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The US supreme court’s rightwing justices are fighting legal monsters of their making

On Friday the court revoked domestic abusers’ gun rights – fixing a horrific problem they themselves created

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Supreme Court OT2023 in the Final Stretch

The justices are rushing to close out the term before the end of June.

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Counting The Votes In An Unusual Per Curiam Opinion in Gonzalez v. Trevino

We know the identity of four members of the majority, but who else joined?

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Justice Barrett's Concurrence In Vidal v. Elster Is a Repudiation of Bruen's "Tradition" Test

I expect Justice Barrett will exhibit her buyer’s remorse of Bruen in Rahimi.

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Supreme Court OT2023 at the Middle of June

The justices still have over one-third of the term's cases remaining.

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Justices Agree on Constitutionality of Trademark Restriction, Disagree on How to Approach Such Questions

The underlying methodological debate might also bear on free speech disputes more broadly.

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Book Advances for the Justices in 2023

Gorsuch ($250,000), Kavanaugh ($340,000), Jackson ($893,750).

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Hoping for Three More Votes

Gorsuch: "If there are not yet four votes on this Court to take up the question whether Williams should be overruled, I can only hope someday there will be."

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Justice Gorsuch Again Argues: The Jury Trial Clause Requires 12-Person Juries in Serious Criminal Cases

From this morning's dissent by Justice Gorsuch from denial of certiorari in Cunningham v. Florida: "For almost all of this Nation's history and centuries before that, the right to trial by jury for serious criminal offenses meant the right to a trial before 12 members of the community." Khorrami v.…

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30 Months After Only Three Justices Would Have Granted Cert in Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, the New York Court of Appeals Holds Fulton Changed Nothing

Decisions from Justices Kavanaugh and Barrett continue to linger.

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Judicial Boycotts of Non-Elite Schools

In April 2009, a law student at American University asked Justice Scalia how a student from her school could become "outrageously successful" without "connections and elite degrees." (The clip begins around 52:00.) Scalia laughed out loud. He answered, "Just work hard and be very good." But then he digressed to…

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CFPB v. CFSAA: Originalists v. Traditionalists

The Court's originalists and traditionalists break out into their camps.

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Why did Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson Dissent in Robinson v. Landry?

And what would have happened if Justices Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch did not vote to grant the stay?

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How I Learned About The Copyright Act's Statute of Limitations

And how it relates to Warner Chappell Music, Inc. v. Nealy.

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Ten Thoughts on Starbucks, Corp. v. McKinney

Brief responses based on the second oral argument this morning: Starbucks wins. The Court will hold, as it should, that the four-factor test should be applied. The general principle here (see Weinberger v. Romero-Barcelo, Nken, e.g.) is that we presume all the traditional principles of equity apply unless there is…

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Justice Kavanaugh's Concurrence in Labrador v. Poe

Justice Kavanaugh laid out a unifying theory for the Shadow Docket.

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Justice Gorsuch's Concurrence in Labrador v. Poe

The walls are closing on universal, non-party injunctions against state laws.

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Congratulations to Sam Bray, Whose National Injunction Article Was Cited Three Times by Justices Today

That happened in yesterday's opinions respecting the stay in Labrador v. Poe, twice in Justice Gorsuch's concurrence (joined by Justices Thomas and Alito), and once in Justice Jackson's dissent (joined by Justice Sotomayor). Nice! For Sam's substantive analysis of Labrador, see this post.

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Is the Bell Tolling for Universal Injunctions?

Yesterday the Court stayed most of the district court's injunction in Labrador v. Poe, narrowing the injunction so that it protected only the plaintiffs from the enforcement of Idaho's statute restricting surgeries and other kinds of medical interventions for minors related to gender identity. Accompanying the Court's stay were three…

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The Court Should Cast Doubt On Havens Realty "Diversion" Standing and Establishment Clause "Offended Observer" Standing

If Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine lacks standing, so should progressive groups.

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