(1) The week began with a few statistical takeaways from the Bremerton oral arguments: Justice Kavanaugh spoke the most followed by Justices Breyer and Sotomayor. CJ Roberts spoke least overall. Justice Alito only spoke during Respondent’s turn and Justices Kagan and Sotomayor only spoke during Petitioner’s turn. If we focus on the polarity or positive/negative…
Category: Week in Review
April 8 Week in Review
This week started out with a new post on the schools and lower court clerkships that will most likely land a former law student a Supreme Court clerkship. The post can be found here. Next up was a look at the cases decided so far this term and the justices who authored each opinion. Justices…
New Court Dynamics With A New Term of Oral Arguments
After the first week of oral arguments for the 2016 Supreme Court Term, two of the main stories from the Court deal with Justice Breyer’s hypothetical question involving the robbery of Kim Kardashian, and the slight upturn in the number of female attorneys participating in oral arguments at the beginning of this Term as compared to years…
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