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Predicting Case Authors and Outcomes as the Supreme Court Hits the Home Stretch

Some worth-what-you-paid-for-them predictions for the final(?) week of SCOTUS opinions.

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Oh Hale Yes!

Justices Sotomayor and Kagan cite Sir Matthew Hale.

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Has Justice Gorsuch Ever Written An Opinion That Ruled Against An Indian Tribe or Member?

9-0.

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In Sackett v. EPA, the Supreme Court Cuts Back Federal Regulatory Authority Over Wetlands

The Clean Water Act decision was a unanimous win for the Sacketts, and a 5-4 victory for Justice Scalia's 2006 Rapanos v. United States plurality.

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Sotomayor and Kagan "Go Back To School" Each Other in Warhol v. Goldsmith

Does The Relationship Between Justices Sotomayor and Kagan "Have Much Of A Future"? Or was this just their "Fifteen Minutes" of Flame Wars?

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Another Voting Paradox Case (Pork Division)

The California Pork case (NPCC v. Ross) is another example of a case whose outcome conflicts with the doctrines adopted by the Court itself in its opinions.

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How Did Justice Gorsuch Lose A Majority In National Pork Producers?

Thomas assigned the majority to Justice Gorsuch, but he couldn't hold five all the way.

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SCOTUS Chooses California Over Pork Producers and Bacon Consumers (and Issues Four Other Opinions Too)

The Supreme Court issues five merits opinions, but there are still forty more waiting.

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Some Levity On A Technical Oral Argument Day

Today, the Harlan Institute and Ashbrook hosted the championship round for our virtual Supreme Court competition. Every year, we fly the top two teams and their coaches, to Washington, D.C. These high schoolers had a jam packed day. In the morning, we attended oral argument at the Supreme Court. For…

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Texas Will Test Whether Kennedy v. Bremerton Abrogated Engel v. Vitale, Stone v. Graham, and Wallace v. Jaffree

And good luck challenging the law. The Texas Senate passed an S.B. 8-like bulletproof bill for prayer in school.

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Chief Justice Roberts's Assignment Dilemma

If Justices Thomas and Alito are dissent, and Justices Kavanaugh and Barrett vote with the progressives, the Chief may join the majority to avoid having Justice Sotomayor make the assignment.

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Joan Biskupic's Barely-There Exclusives

Gone are the days that Biskupic told us things we didn't already know.

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The One Key Question No Justice Asked in the Harvard/UNC Affirmative Action Case

Harvard and UNC's defense is based on the perceived need for racial diversity; but how do they justify treating "Hispanic" as a Racial Classification?

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SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Justice Jackson gets hometown honor

The naming of a Miami-area street for Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson brings to four the number of sitting justices similarly honored

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Making Sense Of The Votes In Bittner v. United States

Why did Justices Kagan and Sotomayor, but not Justice Jackson, join Justice Barrett's dissent?

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Why Big Tech will lose its Supreme Court case on section 230

I only count two votes to ratify Big Tech's sweeping immunity claims

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Justice Sotomayor: Summary Reversal on the "Shadow Docket" Caused A "Significant Change" In Federal Law

Justice Barrett countered that the SumRev "did not change the content of federal law."

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How Often Do Justices Refer To "My Law Clerk"?

Justices Breyer and Sotomayor did it a lot.

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Has Justice Barrett Replaced Justice Ginsburg as the Court's Quickest Opinion Writer?

Justice Barrett has produced two majority opinions before most of her colleagues have produced one.

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Justice Gorsuch on Title 42: "Even if the [APA] has taken a holiday during this pandemic, it cannot become a sabbatical."

With good reason, Justices Sotomayor and Kagan do not join Maskless Neil's dissent.

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Review of Oral Argument in Students for Fair Admission v. University of North Carolina

My Justice-by-Justice breakdown.

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The Sackett Oral Argument and the Problem of Defining "Waters of the United States"

The justices wrestled with the problem of identifying a clear, coherent, and administrable definition to constrain federal regulatory jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act.

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Yeshiva University Loses On The Shadow Docket, Wins On The Penumbra Docket

SCOTUS nudges the lower courts and parties into compliance.

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Amicus Filings On The Shadow Docket

Repeat litigants file amicus briefs on short fuses all the time.

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Where is Times Square?

New York City erects an expansive "sensitive" place in Midtown Manhattan.

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