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6 Jun 2019, 7:30 am by Mark Tushnet
Ken Masugi was an intellectual mentor for Clarence Thomas, which probably accounts for the prominent place the Declaration of independence has in Thomas's version of originalism (whereas the Declaration has almost no role in legal originalism as it's developed to this point). [read post]
23 May 2019, 10:03 am by Adam Feldman
Four pairs that had significant disparities were Chief Justice Warren Burger and Justice Harry Blackmun (they voted together 33.45 percent more frequently in their first term together than across their entire careers), Justices Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy, Blackmun and then-Justice William Rehnquist (later chief justice), and Souter and Thomas. [read post]
21 May 2019, 9:25 am by Steve Gottlieb
They had a son, Thomas, who was brought up by English relatives after Pocahontas died there. [read post]
15 May 2019, 6:00 am by Guest Blogger
” But, as Thomas Hobbes always insisted, a people is a strictly artificial construction, which exists and acts only through the institutions that define its sovereignty. [read post]
14 May 2019, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Justice Thomas is correct that the Court has drawn inferences from structure and history. [read post]
14 May 2019, 7:29 am by Andrew Hamm
Dwight Eisenhower picked two liberal titans — Earl Warren and William Brennan. [read post]
6 May 2019, 7:30 am by margaret
President John Adams and a lame-duck Federalist Party congressional majority shrank the size of the Court from six to five in 1801 to limit Thomas Jefferson’s appointments to the bench. [read post]
6 May 2019, 1:14 am by Steve Lubet
While we are on the subject, the first justice from west of the Appalachians was Kentucky's Thomas Todd in 1807, and the first from the former Northwest Territories was Ohio's John McLean in 1830. [read post]
29 Apr 2019, 11:41 am by Steve Lubet
  The Times has apologized for carrying the cartoon, which appeared adjacent to an unrelated column by Thomas Friedman, explaining that it had been taken from a wire service by a single, unsupervised editor. [read post]
16 Apr 2019, 4:30 am by David Oscar Markus
California, Harlan (and mostly Krattenmaker, by his account) wrote the opinion for the court that said the anti-draft message on the jacket was protected from criminal prosecution by the First Amendment.Krattenmaker relates the well-known fact that before oral argument in Cohen in the fall of 1970, then-Chief Justice Warren Burger sought to head off the use of the offending word by telling Cohen’s lawyer that the justices were familiar with the facts of the case. [read post]
15 Apr 2019, 1:44 pm by Mark Walsh
Krattenmaker relates the well-known fact that before oral argument in Cohen in the fall of 1970, then-Chief Justice Warren Burger sought to head off the use of the offending word by telling Cohen’s lawyer that the justices were familiar with the facts of the case. [read post]
4 Apr 2019, 6:00 am by Guest Blogger
A few, like Thomas Jefferson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan, do. [read post]
28 Mar 2019, 8:56 am by Ronald Collins
For example, Chief Justice Warren Burger died nearly a quarter-century ago and his official biography has yet to be published. [read post]
13 Mar 2019, 11:01 am by Victoria Kwan
Citing Chief Justice Earl Warren’s short, unanimous decision in Brown v. [read post]
13 Mar 2019, 2:59 am by Walter Olson
Study finds “growth in state government expenditures in warm states was higher after the introduction of air conditioning” [Thomas A. [read post]
12 Mar 2019, 8:40 am by Adam Feldman
Also, Thomas’ and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s frequencies are based on over 1,000 votes apiece. [read post]
5 Mar 2019, 5:40 pm by Howard Bashman
“Conservatives’ Coming War on the Warren Court: Led by Clarence Thomas, the Supreme Court’s originalists are taking aim at the landmark precedents set by liberal justices decades ago. [read post]