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Mar 11, 2024
News take: The right to privacy
It is tattered but still a target. More at Vox. At least one judge, moreover, has already weaponized the right to privacy to undermine...
Jan 31, 2024
News take: PA Supreme Court bench slaps SCOTUS on Dobbs
Poor Samuel Alito must be furious. From Dahlia Lithwick at Slate: On Monday, the court issued a landmark opinion declaring that abortion...
Nov 14, 2023
Look! A SCOTUS ethics code! Without any enforcement mechanism!
The eight-page code says the justices “should comply” with a set of lower court regulations that limit what gifts federal judges and...
Nov 1, 2023
Senate panel wants to hear from Leonard Leo, Harlan Crow
The Senate Judiciary Committee wants to learn more about their gift-giving to SCOTUS Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. “I will...
Oct 24, 2023
Deconstructing Dobbs
By Neil Siegel at the Balkanization blog. I argue that Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (2022) was an ugly, lawless judicial...
Oct 22, 2023
SCOTUS to decide whether Biden administration bullied social media companies
It stayed a censorship order levied by the wacky Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, but... Three conservative justices — Samuel Alito,...
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