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Justices Alito and Sotomayor on How Courts Read Dicta

An amusing and potentially revealing exchange in a recent oral argument.

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Justice Sotomayor Asks Texas Governor Abbott To Grant Executive Reprieve To Death Row Prisoner

Case of the Speluncean Explorers Redux

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NY Times Big Reveals On Deliberations In Three Trump Cases

How did Roberts come to write Trump v. Anderson, Fischer v. United States, and Trump v. United States?

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Severability on the Shadow Docket: SCOTUS Splits 5-4 On Whether Entirety of Title IX Regulations Must Be Enjoined

Justice Gorsuch joins the three dissenters on severability. What about Justices Thomas and Barrett?

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Thoughts on Biden's Proposed Supreme Court Reforms

The proposals include term limits for Supreme Court justices, a binding ethics code, and a constitutional amendment limiting the president's' immunity from prosecution. All 3 are potentially good ideas. But devil is in details.

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The Behind the Scenes Wrangling in the Idaho Abortion Case

Joan Biskupic reports that the justices were initially inclined to back Idaho in the EMTALA case, until they realized the case was messier than they had thought.

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Jarkesy Should Not Have Been So Easy For Justice Barrett

There are tensions between Jarkesy, CFPB, and Vidal.

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Chief Justice Roberts, The Judicial Supremacist in Jarkesy

The Chief Justice wavers on many issues, but never in returning power to the federal judiciary.

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Atlas Roofing Shrugged

Another Burger Court precedent is about to be “abandoned” or “overruled” like Roe, Lemon, Chevron, Abood, and Bakke.

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The Supreme Court Refuses To Extend Robinson v. California, A Non-Originalist Decision

Even if an erroneous precedent cannot be overruled, isolate the damage, and decline to extend it to new circumstances.

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Justice Sotomayor Would Deny Immunity For Abuses of Power, Corrupt Purposes, and Personal Gain

Justice Sotomayor's rhetoric in Trump v. United States mirrors the claims from Trump impeachment 1.0

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Trump v. United States Recognizes That Prosecuting The President Poses More Risks Than Suing The President

Defenders of the Mueller investigation routinely argued that the threat of civil enforcement was worse than a federal prosecution.

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What Exactly Do Justices Thomas and Gorsuch Disagree About In Loper Bright

Justice Thomas agrees with the "lion's share" of Justice Gorsuch's concurrence.

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"What Should a Court Do When Faced with a 40-Year-Old Conviction Resting on Science That Has Now Been Wholly Discredited?"

A longish and interesting opinion by Justice Sotomayor, regarding the Court's decision not to review the matter for now (McCrory v. Alabama). According to Justice Sotomayor: Petitioner Charles M. McCrory was convicted of murder in 1985 based on forensic bitemark testimony that has now been roundly condemned by the scientific…

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Justice Sotomayor on Prosecutorial Immunity

From Justice Sotomayor's statement today respecting the denial of review in Price v. Montgomery County: Nickie Miller was charged with murder based on the false confession of a witness. The witness later recanted her coerced confession, including in jailhouse letters she sent to her husband. Upon learning about the letters,…

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Did Justice Alito Lose The Majority Opinions In Trevino and NetChoice?

Alito had only four majority opinions this term, while Roberts, Thomas, Sotomayor, and Kagan all had seven.

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Edited Version of Trump v. United States

Download the edited version from the 2024 Barnett/Blackman supplement.

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Trump and MAGA Republicans celebrate ‘big win’ over Supreme Court immunity ruling

New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that she plans to file articles of impeachment against Donald Trump

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US supreme court decisions: the biggest cases this term and their outcomes

The court has wrapped up its term, issuing a string of blockbuster decisions with the conservative supermajority in the driver’s seat

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Let's Talk About The Debate

I wasn't planning on watching the presidential debate. Contrary to what readers may believe, I do not like politics. I much prefer the law. I'd rather read a transcript of oral argument than sit through a meaningless political debate. My agenda for last night was to finish a long post…

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SEC v. Jarkesy: A Win for the Separation of Powers and the Right to Civil Jury Trial

The Supreme Court held today that the Seventh Amendment right to a civil jury trial in fraud cases was violated when an administrative law judge of the S.E.C. decided the case.

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KBJ DGAF

Unlike Justices Sotomayor and Kagan, Justice Jackson has no problems criticizing Justice Barrett.

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The Keys to Moyle: PPROM and Fertility

Justice Kagan and Sotomayor set the stage for Justice Barrett's vote.

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Second Amendment Roundup: Rahimi Preserves Bruen

The real dissents are the concurrences by Justices Sotomayor and Jackson.

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Department of State v. Munoz: The Sleeper ConLaw Case of the Term

Justice Barrett's majority clarifies Glucksberg, Mandel, Din, and Knauff, but Justice Sotomayor's dissent really wants to talk about Loving, Obergefell, and Dobbs.

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