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UNCOVERED: 8 - The Untold Story

Justice Kavanaugh Still Wants SCOTUS To Hear More Cases

The Supreme Court's docket may be awfully small, but it's not Justice Kavanaugh's fault.

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Griffin's Case (1869) and The Enforcement Act of 1870

Justice Kavanaugh was right. Chief Justice Chase's decision in Griffin's Case "forms the backdrop against which Congress" legislated The Enforcement Act of 1870.

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Former Nixon counsel warns of dangerous potential in Trump's case

Learn about the potential implications of Donald Trump's appeal to the Supreme Court and the lessons from the United States vs. Nixon case, with insights f...

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Oral Arguments in Trump v. Anderson Part III: Justice Kavanaugh Gets Griffin's Case and Justice Barrett gets FedCourts

Why did Jonathan Mitchell not vigorously defend Griffin's Case and Chief Justice Chase? And Mitchell missed Justice Barrett's question about direct/collateral challenges due to his refusal to accept the sword-shield dichotomy.

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New Univ. of Texas Law Class on "Understanding Conservative Legal Thought"

I thought this item from Prof. John Greil at Texas was much worth passing along; he is still developing the syllabus, and comments and suggestions are welcome at john [dot] greil [at] law [dot] utexas [dot] edu: Next fall semester, I'll be teaching a new course at Texas Law—Understanding Conservative…

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Supreme Court Takes a Pass on Minnesota Climate Change Case

Only one justice indicated any interest in premature consideration of state-law climate change lawsuits.

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Ten Reflections on Justices Kavanaugh and Barrett's Votes In Dobbs

On Friday, I wrote a post that totaled nearly 6,000 words about the New York Times bombshell report on Dobbs. My initial goal was to simply lay out all of the new disclosures--and there were many of them. Now, I've had some time to think about this new information. Here,…

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16 Disclosures from the New York Times Leak Report About Dobbs

Jodi Kantor and Adam Liptak of the New York Times have published a remarkable story about Dobbs that reports on private correspondences, votes at conference, and more. This post will highlight sixteen of the largest disclosures, and close with some broader thoughts. And I've presented this narrative in (roughly) chronological…

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Justices Kavanaugh And Barrett's Shadow Docket Concurrence In The Hamburger Mary's Case

The good, the bad, and the ugly.

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Broad Injunctions Against Enforcement of Allegedly Unconstitutional Statutes

An interesting opinion from Justices Kavanaugh and Barrett; it arose in a case challenging a Florida law that was aimed at drag shows, but it deals with the remedies question and not the underlying substantive First Amendment question.

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Justice Kavanaugh Really Wants to Hear More (Patent) Cases

Not all of the justices are happy about the Court's stingy approach to certiorari.

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Justice Barrett's Shadow Docket Policy: Do The Opposite Of Whatever The Fifth Circuit Did (Updated)

Forget Doe v. Mills. Justice Barrett will grant relief on the shadow docket when the Fifth Circuit steps out of line.

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Justice Alito's Interview in the Wall Street Journal

As a general rule, Supreme Court Justices speak through their opinions. From time to time, Justices will be "interviewed"by friendly interlocutors during public events. The screened questions are usually softballs, and even then, the Justices tend to avoid saying anything newsworthy. In recent years, perhaps the biggest outlier was Justice…

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Conservatives Should Not Be Surprised By Justice Barrett's Cautious Approach

Barrett was added to the SCOTUS short-list only seventeen days after she was confirmed to the Seventh Circuit.

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Notes on "The Restrained Roberts Court"

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Roberts the Creditor, Roberts the Debtor

Kavanaugh the follower.

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Purple June

With Justice Kavanaugh by his side, the Chief Justice is back in control.

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What Does U.S. v. Texas Tell Us About The DACA Litigation?

Is this a ticket good for one ride?

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What's Left Standing of Special Solicitude for States After U.S. v. Texas?

The Supreme Court did not overturn the standing holding of MAssachusetts v. EPA, but it may have left it on life support.

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Will Massachusetts v. EPA get the Lemon v. Kurtzman quiet interment?

The landmark environmental decision may have already been abandoned.

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Justice Kavanaugh's Arrested Development

U.S. v. Texas, Linda v. Richard, and Brett v. Amy.

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Counting to Five in Texas v. United States

Justice Kavanaugh penned a narrow decision that cobbled together a majority.

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Making Sense of Arizona v. Navajo Nation

Justice Gorsuch's conservative colleagues now ignore him in Indian cases.

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Roaming Polansky and the Constitutionality of Qui Tam

Three decades later, the George H.W. Bush SCOTUS strategy finally has three votes.

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The Kavanaugh Concurrence When He Swings Left

I'm holding my breath on his predictions in Allen and Brackeen.

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