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Anastasia Boden has a thing for liberty—and a borderline obsessive relationship with the Supreme Court. While most people unplug with Netflix and a glass of wine, she’s devouring SCOTUS transcripts and tracking how the Justices are reshaping your rights. Her newsletter, SCOTUS Scoop, delivers sharp, liberty-forward takes on the Court’s biggest decisions—every other Thursday, with just the right mix of brains and bite.
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The Supreme Court has issued its first handful (or scoop, if you will) of opinions. And it heard oral arguments in one of the most closely watched cases of the term. But first, the bad news. On Monday, the Court rejected six PLF petitions for review: Hierholzer...
Are you still full from Thanksgiving? Here’s a scoop of SCOTUS to go with your leftover mashed potatoes. Why can’t we hold rights violators accountable? The Court recently heard arguments in the case of a man whose dreadlocks were forcibly shaved—contrary to his...
Happy Halloween, SCOTUS lovers. Need a last-minute costume? Don’t want to be Taylor “Swift Justice?” Go as “The Dissenter.” All black robe, dramatic lace jabot à la RBG, and add fake blood on a scroll for Halloween flair. You are now: “When your dissent was so good,...
Bust out your pumpkin spice lattes and pocket Constitutions. It’s October, which means the justices (and I) are back. What can you expect this term? Extra pumpkin spice. We’re getting cases involving conversion therapy, trans athletes in sports, and executive power....
The term hath endeth! The justices are slathering on the SPF, teaching classes in Italy, gallivanting in their RVs, and doing whatever else it is that the justices do for the summer. Justices, they’re just like us—but with robes. After this scoop of SCOTUS, we’ll have...
It’s been nice to get some unanimous opinions lately. Given that we’re near the end of the term, some especially vigorous disagreements are sure to arise. Discrimination is discrimination is discrimination Surprising no one, the Court unanimously held in Ames v. Ohio...
**Non-Opinion Opinion Watch ** The Supreme Court released its opinion in a highly anticipated case about whether a group could become the nation’s first religious charter school. Unfortunately, the case ended with a whimper, not a bang: Justice Barrett recused...
The Quiet Disappointments of Justice David Souter Former Supreme Court Justice David Souter has passed away. In my latest for the Daily Journal, I reflect on his tenure. Justice Souter’s modesty, humility, and deference made him well-liked by others on the bench but...
A lot of interesting developments. Thus, much like the Ninth Amendment, the inclusion of certain court orders, opinions, or oral arguments is not meant to deny or disparage the existence of others. There’s just only so much space per scoop. Mo’ cases, mo’ problems The...
There’s so much interesting stuff happening at the Court that you get not one, but two scoops of SCOTUS this week. In Part I, I’ll discuss all of the opinions that were released over the past two weeks. In Part II, we’ll recap some of the wild oral arguments. Let’s...
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