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Bonus 98: The "Least Dangerous" Branch—Court Reform and Federalist 78
An increasingly common objection to even modest proposals for Supreme Court reform is that they would infringe upon judicial independence. Alexander…
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98. Why is the Court's Docket Shrinking?
Speaking at the Tenth Circuit Conference, Justice Gorsuch tied the Court's declining output to the declining number of appeals being filed with the…
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Bonus 97: The Supreme Court's Website
There's a lot to like about the Court's online presence. There are also some easy (to implement, anyway) ways to make it even better.
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97. Darby, Congress, and Modern Labor Law
Four years after the Court ushered in the end of the "Lochner era," a 1941 ruling reinforced what that shift *meant* with regard to Congress's power to…
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Karen's Corner—August 2024
We are officially D.C. residents!
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96. Bad Supreme Court Math
A recent effort to defend the Fifth Circuit's SCOTUS track record usefully (if unintentionally) highlights several of the most common methodological…
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Bonus 95: The (Busy) Summer of 2024
If it feels like the Supreme Court is handling a larger number of significant emergency applications during its summer recess than in any recent summer…
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