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[RETRACTED] Calabresi Responds to Whelan on State Legislatures and Moore v. Harper

What is meant by "each State by the Legislature thereof" that prescribes how to conduct elections?

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Indiana RFRA and Abortion

A trial court found that Indiana's abortion law violates the state RFRA.

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Will Sackett v. EPA Clarify the Scope of Federal Regulatory Jurisdiction Over Wetlands?

Ten years after their unanimous Supreme Court victory against the Environmental Protection Agency, the Sacketts return to One First Street for another round.

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The University of Idaho General Counsel's Letter on Abortion

Justice Scalia, to the rescue.

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Ohio Supreme Court Justice Expresses Doubt About Appellate Decisions About History in Second Amendment Cases

But wouldn't the arguments in the dissent equally cast doubt on all historical analysis in constitutional cases, or even statutory or common-law cases?

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Originalism and the "Major Questions" Doctrine

Originalist legal scholars Mike Ramsey and Mike Rappaport debate whether the major questions doctrine - an important theory underlying several recent Supreme Court decisions - can be squared with originalism or not.

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For Legal Conservatives, Six Decades Of Folding, Followed By Sixteen Years To Draw A Full House

On the plus side, we had Rehnquist, Scalia, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett. On the down side, we had Roberts, Souter, Kennedy, O'Connor, Powell, Blackmun, Burger, Stewart, Whittaker, Brennan, and Warren.

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Justice Scalia's Dissent in Dickerson v. United States Is Vindicated Two Decades Later

Would the current Court have ruled with Justices Scalia and Thomas on Miranda?

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Status, Conduct, and the Yarmulke Tax

There's a lot going on in Justice Kagan's Marietta dissent.

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"Your Money Or Your Life"

A famous line from NFIB v. Sebelius shows up in U.S. v. Taylor

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Biden planned to pick Thomas-style judge

Biden reportedly agreed to nominate anti-abortion lawyer Chad Meredith in deal with Mitch McConnell

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Texas Sets Up Test Case For Arizona v. U.S.

Can the states detain an alien based on "reasonable suspicion of illegal entry or other immigration crime"?

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Residential Picketing and Abortion

I've seen some people argue that the Supreme Court's objection to the picketing of Justices' homes about abortion is inconsistent with the Court's upholding the right to picket outside abortion clinics, or stressing the right to protest more broadly. It's worth noting, though, that bans on residential picketing have been…

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The "Judges of Wisdom" and the "Mystical Aphorisms of the Fortune Cookie"

The Dobbs dissenters should have quoted that other passage from Justice Scalia about Justice Kennedy.

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Scalia's "Prophecy" in Lawrence And The Joint Dissent in Dobbs

That awkward moment when Justice Breyer joins an opinion that criticizes his join in Lawrence.

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Bruen, Originalism, and Post-Enactment Practice

What role should liquidation play in originalism?

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Red Flag June Continues As Lemon Is Finally Interred

Justice Gorsuch stabs the final pencil into the Lemon Test.

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The Decade From NFIB To Dobbs

A very unexpected path.

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A Scalia Clerk and A Stevens Clerk from OT 2007 Talk About Heller

"We think it’s clear that every member of the court on which we clerked joined an opinion — either majority or dissent — that agreed that the Constitution leaves elected officials an array of policy options when it comes to gun regulation"

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Obscenity (Including as to Minors) and "the Work Taken as a Whole"

An isolated sexually themed passage, even a graphic one, doesn't make a work obscene.

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Will Dobbs Be a Ticket Good for this Right Only?

What the Alito draft tells us about a possible future for same-sex marriage.

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

Will the Supreme Court finally overrule the Lemon test?

The Independent UK

Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson?

Ms Jackson is the first Black woman on the Supreme Court

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Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson?

Ms Jackson would be the first Black woman on the Supreme Court

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Justice Kavanaugh Is Not Going To Lay A Hand On Employment Division v. Smith

Kavanuagh's concerns about the "compelling interest" test in RLUIPA do not bode well from him restoring that test to Free Exercise Clause jurisprudence.

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