The road from Citizens United to Dobbs was paved with saving constructions.
I held the essay in reserve, waiting to see what would happen in oral arguments, but decided not to use it.
He already addressed the ruling at length in his Obergefell dissent.
The Dobbs dissenters should have quoted that other passage from Justice Scalia about Justice Kennedy.
That awkward moment when Justice Breyer joins an opinion that criticizes his join in Lawrence.
Who assigned the majority opinion to Justice Alito?
What role should liquidation play in originalism?
The Constitutionality of "Shall Issue" Regimes After Bruen.
Justice Gorsuch stabs the final pencil into the Lemon Test.
A new framework for originalist judging.
The Court abrogated a decade of circuit court precedent, and vitiated mountains of Second Amendment scholarship.
I distilled the 213-page decision down to about 50 pages.
A very unexpected path.
"Dobbs, which is a triumph for originalism and sound constitutional law, also signals that the court is infused with judicial fortitude."
A whirlwind day.
Bruen and Dobbs placed red flags on hundreds of precedents.
I distilled the 132 decision down to about 40 pages. Dobbs is next.
The top two teams presented oral argument in NYS Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen at the Georgetown Supreme Court Institute
The Chief treats in his dissent.
Justice Gorsuch has a pronoun problem. No, not that problem.
Justice Barrett cites Sir Matthew Hale, as did Justice Alito in Dobbs draft.
On the current Court, Justice Gorsuch is the most unpredictable justice.
Four decisions that turn on the meaning of text.
Does the Glucksberg test require a right to be "fundamental" and "deeply rooted" or "fundamental" or "deeply rooted"?
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