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'Shaken': Analyst claims John Roberts has been left reeling from immunity ruling backlash
2 months, 1 week ago

'Shaken': Analyst claims John Roberts has been left reeling from immunity ruling backlash

Raw Story  

Supreme Court Justice John Roberts has been left "shaken" by the unexpected public reaction to his ruling in the Donald Trump presidential immunity case, a columnist wrote Friday. "His protestations that the case concerned the presidency, not Trump, held little currency.” Lithwick also mentioned New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Adam Liptak's claim that Roberts had hoped his pro-Trump …

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We Have a Theory About Why John Roberts Went Full MAGA This Term
54 years, 11 months ago

We Have a Theory About Why John Roberts Went Full MAGA This Term

Slate  

This is part of Opinionpalooza, Slate’s coverage of the major decisions from the Supreme Court this June. On this Saturday’s Amicus podcast, Dahlia Lithwick convened her annual end-of-term breakfast table to discuss the big themes, controversies, and surprises that mark the end of the Supreme Court’s term. The court doesn’t care, in the administrative law cases, that it’s going back …

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'Hard to understand': Expert questions competency of Supreme Court after website flub
5 months, 3 weeks ago

'Hard to understand': Expert questions competency of Supreme Court after website flub

Raw Story  

Legal experts gathered Friday to trash some of the recently released decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court. Slate Supreme Court reporter Dahlia Lithwick explained the unwriting of a 40-year precedent in the Chevron case, which the High Court had not made. Because agencies are teeming with people who know the science and understand how the climate works, who understand how …

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'All-new confusion': Experts warn Supreme Court ruling just made gun laws more chaotic
5 months, 4 weeks ago

'All-new confusion': Experts warn Supreme Court ruling just made gun laws more chaotic

Raw Story  

Gun safety activists breathed a sigh of relief last week when the Supreme Court upheld a law prohibiting people with domestic violence restraining orders from possessing firearms by a commanding 8-1 margin. The case, United States v. Rahimi, was a major test of New York State Pistol & Rifle Association v. Bruen, a Clarence Thomas-authored opinion that took an absolutist …

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The Supreme Court: This term is a mess. Here’s what you need to know.
6 months, 1 week ago

The Supreme Court: This term is a mess. Here’s what you need to know.

Slate  

Opinionpalooza is Slate’s coverage of the major decisions from the Supreme Court this June. BY DAHLIA LITHWICK AND MARK JOSEPH STERN The Supreme Court’s Abortion Pill Ruling Should Satisfy Nobody BY SHIRIN ALI The Unanimous SCOTUS Abortion Drug Decision Isn’t As Good As It Seems BY DAHLIA LITHWICK AND MARK JOSEPH STERN Brett Kavanaugh Slipped a Big Poison Pill Into …

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U.S. Supreme Court: Uh ... what is going on over there?
6 months, 1 week ago

U.S. Supreme Court: Uh ... what is going on over there?

Slate  

This is part of Opinionpalooza, Slate’s coverage of the major decisions from the Supreme Court this June. At his confirmation hearing, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts compared his role to that of an umpire in baseball: “Umpires don’t make the rules, they apply them.” In practice, however, the modern-day Supreme Court has an inordinate amount of leeway in choosing …

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Dahlia Lithwick explains how originalism took over the courts and dictates the law on guns, abortion, and more.
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Dahlia Lithwick explains how originalism took over the courts and dictates the law on guns, abortion, and more.

Slate  

This is part of How Originalism Ate the Law, a Slate series about the legal theory that ruined everything. And that’s because the whole nation is currently lashed to a small, stupid, perpetually changing theory of legal interpretation variously known as “originalism,” or “textualism,” or “original public meaning,” or “history and tradition.” A theory that is—unless you were born in …

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