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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.

Reason

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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Let's talk about 8 U.S.C. § 1252(f)(1) and Justice Barrett's concurrence in Biden v. Texas

As (yet another) Texas v. U.S. slides from the shadow docket to the rocket docket

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Kagan Clings To Casey's Conception of Legitimacy

Like the Constitution itself, Casey's precedent on precedent is dead.

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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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A Term Of DIGs And Almost-DIGs

This past term, the Court only issued 58 signed opinions. As low as that number is, it was made even lower by DIGs. The Supreme Court dismissed as improvidently granted two cases: United States v. Texas was DIG'd. Justice Sotomayor dissented from the DIG. Arizona v. San Francisco was DIG'd.…

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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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No Offense, But It's Just A Prayer

Kennedy tells people to get over prayer in public unless there is direct coercion.

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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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