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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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The Supreme Court at the 2023 State of the Union

President Biden goes off script on abortion.

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Analogical Reasoning and the Second Amendment

In historical inquiry, reasoning by analogy is a commonplace task for any lawyer or judge.

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Mum's pride as five-year-old daughter saves her life after she collapsed

Breyer Warke knew to call her grandad to ask for help after her mum collapsed

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Traditionalism Rising, Part III: The "Level of Generality" Problem

One important challenge to traditionalism involves what some have termed the "level of generality" problem. Mark Tushnet, in addressing a previous article of mine on traditionalism, observed: Referring to the Bladensburg cross case, DeGirolami criticizes Justice Breyer for "drawing" the practice with reference solely to the very cross at issue…But,…

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Restoring the right to bear arms, New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen

Article for Cato Supreme Court Review

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Dobbs Is Making Our Democracy Work

Justice Breyer, whether he admits it or not, should recognize how Dobbs reinvigorated the legislative process on abortion.

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It Must Be Nice To Have John Marshall On Your Side, Except for Indian Law

Justice Gorsuch embraces Worcester v. Georgia, while Justice Kavanaugh rejects the great Chief Justice.

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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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How Many Opinions Did Each Justice Write During OT 2021?

During the October 2021 Term, each Justices authored between five and eight majority opinions. The Chief assigned himself the most majority opinions (8) and Justice Kavanaugh had the fewest (5). Justice Kavanaugh wrote the most concurring opinions with 8. Indeed, Kavanaugh beat Thomas and Alito, who each had 7. Five…

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The 3-3-3 Court on the Merits Docket and the Shadow Docket

On June 18, 2021, I wrote, "We don't have a 6-3 Conservative Court. We have a 3-3-3 Court." I'm not sure if I was the first person to coin the phrase 3-3-3 Court, but I was one of the first. And I elaborated on this theme in a Newsweek column,…

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The US supreme court is turning the constitution into a suicide pact

The constitution is being used to destroy the very democratic governance that it was designed to protect

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Why Didn't Kennedy Formally Overrule Lemon?

There were no Establishment Clause claims present, and Kennedy did not ask the Court to reverse Lemon.

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Farewell to Footnote 3 of Trinity Lutheran

In Carson v. Makin, the Chief Justice stealthily eliminated the status/use distinction.

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Forget Carson! Remember the Maine Human Rights Act.

Maine finds a way to undercut Carson v. Maikin.

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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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The Assignments and Timing in Dobbs

Who assigned the majority opinion to Justice Alito?

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Bruen, Originalism, and Post-Enactment Practice

What role should liquidation play in originalism?

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Justice Kavanaugh on the Right to Travel to Get an Abortion

This is a tremendously important question, as Ilya's and my posts noted in May. Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence in Dobbs today expressly noted: [A]s I see it, some of the other abortion-related legal questions raised by today's decision are not especially difficult as a constitutional matter. For example, may a State…

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Exclusion of Religious Schooling from Generally Available School Choice Programs Generally Unconstitutional,

except for the training of the clergy, holds the Supreme Court.

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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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Conjunction Disjunction in the Dobbs Draft

Does the Glucksberg test require a right to be "fundamental" and "deeply rooted" or "fundamental" or "deeply rooted"?

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Whodunit?

And why that is, at this point, an important question - maybe the only important question - emerging from the recent Dobbs leak

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Justice Alito Identifies The Problems With Justice Breyer's "Factorized" Jurisprudence

"And like any factorized analysis, this approach cannot provide a principled way of deciding cases."

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Justice Breyer Takes a Flood v. Kuhn-Esque Detour On Boston Architecture

"Built in the late 1960s, Boston City Hall is a raw concrete structure, an example of the brutalist style."

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