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104: Relisting, Rescheduling, and Two Long-Pending Capital Cases
Two long-pending cert. petitions in capital cases help to illustrate the two different ways in which the justices put off decisions respecting whether…
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Bonus 103: The Power Plant Applications and Irreparable Harm
Justice Kavanaugh's separate opinion in West Virginia v. EPA is exactly right about irreparable harm. The harder question is what it portends for the…
Oct 17
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Bonus 103: The Power Plant Applications and Irreparable Harm
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103. Alien Enemies in the Supreme Court
Setting the record straight on the 1798 statute former President Trump claims he'll use to summarily arrest and deport undocumented immigrants—and the…
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Bonus 102: The Brief in Opposition
Perhaps the hardest Supreme Court brief to write is the "BIO"—in which the goal is to make a newly filed request for the justices to take up a case…
Oct 10
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102. Setting the Table for the October 2024 Term
The new term opens without any of the blockbuster cases that have characterized recent sessions, but with the shadow of the election looming large over…
Oct 7
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102. Setting the Table for the October 2024 Term
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Bonus 101: The 2020 Election and the Supreme Court
Should the justices have more affirmatively endorsed the result of the 2020 presidential election? Some reflections on that question as the 2024…
Oct 3
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101. Justice Black and the 1948 Texas Democratic Senate Primary
76 years ago yesterday, Justice Black effectively sealed LBJ's first election to the U.S. Senate by staying lower-court investigations into alleged…
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101. Justice Black and the 1948 Texas Democratic Senate Primary
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Bonus 100: On the Legitimacy of Legitimacy Critiques
It's become increasingly common for the Supreme Court's defenders to attack critics for seeking to delegitimize the Court. But when are legitimacy…
Sep 26
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Bonus 100: On the Legitimacy of Legitimacy Critiques
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100. Same-Sex Marriage and the 2014 Long Conference
Same-sex marriage became legal in more states through cert. denials (18) than through the Court's June 2015 ruling in Obergefell (13). Strategic voting…
Sep 23
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Bonus 99: Justice Breyer and the AUMF
As the most important post-September 11 counterterrorism statute passes its 23rd birthday, a look at Justice Breyer's central role in (and later…
Sep 19
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Bonus 99: Justice Breyer and the AUMF
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99. Optics Over Politics: Chief Justice Roberts and the Trump/January 6 Cases
New reporting from the New York Times raises some troubling questions about how (and how much) Chief Justice Roberts understands the Supreme Court's…
Sep 16
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99. Optics Over Politics: Chief Justice Roberts and the Trump/January 6 Cases
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Bonus 98: The "Least Dangerous" Branch—Court Reform and Federalist 78
An increasingly common objection to even modest proposals for Supreme Court reform is that they would infringe upon judicial independence. Alexander…
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Bonus 98: The "Least Dangerous" Branch—Court Reform and Federalist 78
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