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Supreme Court Decides Major Chevron Case Without Citing Chevron

American Hospital Association v. Becerra is another indication that lower courts are too quick to give agencies Chevron deference.

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What's Wrong With That Footnote? It's Only Seven Words Long!

Chief Justice Roberts refuses to join a wee little footnote in a Justice Barrett opinion.

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Barrett v. Gorsuch -- Continued

Justice Gorsuch has dissented from two-thirds of Justice Barrett's majority opinions this term.

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Kavanaugh's Paradox

For more than a month, protestors have demonstrated outside of Justice Kavanaugh's house. The purpose of these gatherings is clear: to pressure the Justice to change his vote in Dobbs. On Tuesday, Nicholas John Roske traveled to Justice Kavanaugh's house with the same purpose. But instead of wearing a pussy…

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Press Coverage on the Assassination Attempt of Justice Kavanaugh

The New York Times lists sixteen news stories above the attempted murder of a Justice.

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So Long As Dobbs Remains Undecided, The Lives of the Justices Are At Risk

The Dobbs 5 should immediately issue an unsigned per curiam order, with an opinion to follow, even over the Chief Justice's objection.

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More SCOTUS Leaks To Politico: Alito's Majority Still Holds Five, And No Other Draft Opinions Have Been Circulated Yet

These leaks from a "conservative" look designed to quell controversy.

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Abortion and the Free Exercise Clause

What if a doctor feels a religious obligation to perform abortions, (e.g., because he believes doing so is necessary for him to be the Good Samaritan, by removing a threat to his patient's mental health)?

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Boston Can't Exclude Christian Flag from City Hall Flagpole When It Allows Many Other Groups to Fly Flags

So the Supreme Court held this morning, though it made clear that a city could pick and choose which flags it flies, if it makes clear that the flags are its own speech.

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Don't Push A Pencil Through Lemon, Slice It In Half!

Will the Supreme Court finally overrule the Lemon test?

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Rekha Basu: Chuck Grassley had a chance to restore bipartisan confidence. He passed

I feel stupid for having dared to hope Sen. Chuck Grassley would make the leap to vote for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson getting on the Supreme Court. Thankfully, she made it through without the support of Iowa's senior senator. But the victory could have been sweeter, the moment more memorable,…

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Tradition and Compelling Interests in Religion Cases

Justice Kavanaugh argues for historical practice as a check on judicial intuition

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Supreme Court Issues Stay, Favoring Navy, in Navy Seals COVID Vaccination Religious Exemption Case

In today's Austin v. U.S. Navy Seals 1–26, the Supreme Court stayed "[t]he district court's January 3, 2022 order, insofar as it precludes the Navy from considering respondents' vaccination status in making deployment, assignment, and other operational decisions … pending disposition of the appeal in the United States Court of…

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Justice Kavanaugh on Strict Scrutiny

In many areas of constitutional law, the Court allows a constitutional right to be overcome when a restriction passes "strict scrutiny"—i.e. (to oversimplify slightly), when the government can show that restricting the right is the "least restrictive means" of serving a "compelling government interest." In some fields, such as free…

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Why dissent by conservative justices in voting rights cases is alarming

Democrats won two major victories, but a dissenting opinion from three of the court’s conservative justices set off alarm bells

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Throwing Shade At The Shadow Docket In The Alabama Redistricting Cases

Merrill v. Milligan is the most important shadow docket entry since John Does 1-3 v. Mills

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SCOTUS GDRs Trump v. Thompson: Grant, Dictumize, and Retreat

The Supreme Court summarily deems the "central question" of the D.C. Circuit's opinion as "nonbinding dicta" to avoid hamstringing some future, more worthwhile, president.

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