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Say Farewell To The "Diversity Benefits" Rationale For Affirmative Action

The majority and dissent state the quiet part out loud: affirmative action was never about the educational benefits from diversity.

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Just The Facts, Ma'am

The importance of the trial records in Students for Fair Admissions and 303 Creative

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"What a Difference Five Years Makes"

What would Masterpiece have looked like with Justice Kennedy still on Court?

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A Lawyer Who Litigated Grutter Comments on the Court's College Admission Racial Preferences Cases

I've known Michael Rosman at the Center for Individual Rights for almost 30 years; he has litigated many important cases, including with regard to racial preferences, and was one of the lawyers in Grutter v. Bollinger. I'm therefore delighted to pass along his short reactions to Students for Fair Admission…

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Looking Back on the Supreme Court's 2022-23 Term

Some end-of-term comments and an assessment of my end-of-term predictions.

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"'We Came Here to Exclude the Negro. Nothing Short of This Will Answer.'"

From Justice Jackson's opinion, joined by Justice Sotomayor, dissenting from the denial of certiorari today in Harness v. Watson: The President of the 1890 Mississippi Constitutional Convention said it plain: "Let us tell the truth if it bursts the bottom of the Universe … We came here to exclude the…

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S. Ct. Decides: "True Threats" Exception Requires Showing that Speaker Was "Reckless," i.e.,

"consciously disregarded a substantial risk that his communications would be viewed as threatening violence."

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Predicting Case Authors and Outcomes as the Supreme Court Hits the Home Stretch

Some worth-what-you-paid-for-them predictions for the final(?) week of SCOTUS opinions.

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Oh Hale Yes!

Justices Sotomayor and Kagan cite Sir Matthew Hale.

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Has Justice Gorsuch Ever Written An Opinion That Ruled Against An Indian Tribe or Member?

9-0.

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In Sackett v. EPA, the Supreme Court Cuts Back Federal Regulatory Authority Over Wetlands

The Clean Water Act decision was a unanimous win for the Sacketts, and a 5-4 victory for Justice Scalia's 2006 Rapanos v. United States plurality.

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Sotomayor and Kagan "Go Back To School" Each Other in Warhol v. Goldsmith

Does The Relationship Between Justices Sotomayor and Kagan "Have Much Of A Future"? Or was this just their "Fifteen Minutes" of Flame Wars?

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Another Voting Paradox Case (Pork Division)

The California Pork case (NPCC v. Ross) is another example of a case whose outcome conflicts with the doctrines adopted by the Court itself in its opinions.

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How Did Justice Gorsuch Lose A Majority In National Pork Producers?

Thomas assigned the majority to Justice Gorsuch, but he couldn't hold five all the way.

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SCOTUS Chooses California Over Pork Producers and Bacon Consumers (and Issues Four Other Opinions Too)

The Supreme Court issues five merits opinions, but there are still forty more waiting.

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Some Levity On A Technical Oral Argument Day

Today, the Harlan Institute and Ashbrook hosted the championship round for our virtual Supreme Court competition. Every year, we fly the top two teams and their coaches, to Washington, D.C. These high schoolers had a jam packed day. In the morning, we attended oral argument at the Supreme Court. For…

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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?

Reason

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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