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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Sotomayor - The Untold Story

A Few Thoughts on the Chatrie Oral Argument

On the whole, a good morning for the government.

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SCOTUS Summarily Reverses Three-Judge Panel In Mandatory Jurisdiction Case Based On Earlier Shadow Docket Ruling In Same Case

Judge Brown's "bumpy night" ends not with a bang, but a whimper.

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"Sotomayor Drops The Ball on Obamacare" And The Shadow Docket

A flashback to New Year's Eve 2013 in Chapter 15 of "Unraveled."

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An Unusual GVR With Three Dissenting Votes

I've seen votes to grant instead of GVR, but I can't recall votes to deny instead of a GVR.

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The Substance of the Clean Power Plan Memos

The Chief Justice reminds us why he was the best lawyer of his time.

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Some Questions About The SCOTUS Leak On the Clean Power Plan Case

This story is only getting started.

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Justice Sotomayor Opens Up About Her Colleagues

She blames her colleagues for the emergency docket situation, and faults Justice Kavanaugh for not knowing people who earn an hourly wage.

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If Chiles Was So Lopsided, Why Did The Court Deny Cert In Tingley?

The legal landscape for transgender cases has changed since 2023.

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Justice Kagan's Arguments for "Relax[ing] Our Guard" as to Some Content-Based (But Viewpoint-Neutral) Speech Restrictions

From Justice Kagan's concurrence, joined by Justice Sotomayor, in today's Chiles v. Salazar: [A.] The Court today decides that the… The post Justice Kagan's Arguments for "Relax[ing] Our Guard" as to Some Content-Based (But Viewpoint-Neutral) Speech Restrictions appeared first on Reason.com.

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Texas officials who targeted a journalist just got a response from the Supreme Court that will change how the First Amendment works for everyone

The Supreme Court just delivered a significant blow to citizen journalists, rejecting a case brought by Priscilla Villarreal against Texas officials who had arrested her for reporting. This decision, announced on Monday, means Villarreal’s civil rights claim, which argued her First Amendment free speech rights were violated, cannot move forward.

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It's Elementary, My Dear Watson

The 2000 and 2020 elections are still on the Justices' minds.

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Justice Sotomayor on the Freedom of the Press and the Right to Ask Questions

The Justice largely agrees with Fifth Circuit Judge James Ho's dissenting opinion below, but writes alone in dissenting from the Supreme Court's decision not to consider the case.

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SCOTUS Resolves Two-Way State Court Split About New Jersey Transit

The New York Court of Appeals is affirmed, and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court is reversed.

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SCOTUS Saves Staten Island

Will Callais come tomorrow?

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Counting The Votes In Mirabelli v. Bonta

We only know how Justice Gorsuch voted because Justice Kagan told us he was in the majority.

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The Saving Construction in NFIB and the Anti-Saving Construction in Learning Resources

Six justices found that the best reading of statute supports the government, but only three applied the major question doctrine. Why wasn't this a reversal?

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Justice Gorsuch's Campy Concurrence

Justice Gorsuch takes us on visit of Camp Barrett, Camp Kagan, Camp Kavanaugh, and Camp Thomas.

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An MQD Receipt Justice Gorsuch Overlooked

Justices Kagan and Sotomayor have signed on to at least one opinion that expressly relied upon the major questions doctrine.

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Staten Island Goes To SCOTUS

The New York nomination process begins on February 24, and the maps have still not been settled.

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Can The President Provide Notice on Truth Social?

Justice Jackson doubts whether Trump's social media post could have put Lisa Cook on notice that she would be removed.

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National and Local Traditions for the Second Amendment

The Second Amendment does not have a geography clause.

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Hecox May Still Hide In Justice Kennedy's Shadow

There is nothing originalist about Footnote Four, animus, and suspect classes. Let it go already.

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Can You Waive A Substantive Canon?

Justice Gorsuch suggested that the West Virginia did not raise the clear statement rule, Justice Sotomayor countered that a substantive canon cannot be waived.

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Justice Sotomayor Asks "Have You Studied The People" In SCOTUS Cases.

I have. Conservative litigants are vilified. Liberal litigants are celebrated.

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Justice Sotomayor Authors First Opinion of Supreme Court's October 2025 Term

Contrary to widespread speculation, the Court's first opinion of an argued case concerned neither Trump's tariffs nor voting rights.

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