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Supreme Court Justices have limited mandatory writing duties. Most of the justices are assigned majority opinions to draft. A few justices assign the majority opinion writing duties. This assignment is made by the Chief Justice if he is in the majority and otherwise by the most senior associate justice in the majority. Obviously a justice…

SCOTUS Housekeeping

Since we’re nearing June and The Supreme Court term is slated to end on June 27th, I’ve been thinking lately about what the Court has left to do before then. Actually, there’s quite a bit of work to do. First, there are big decisions – the Dobbs abortion case, NY Rifle gun decision, Kennedy v….