Justice Thomas authored the majority opinion in Home Depot v. Jackson released this morning. There are several facets of this decision that are worth noting. It was a 5-4 decision with the more liberal justices — Ginsburg, Sotomayor, Kagan, and Breyer — in the majority and the other more conservative justices — Roberts, Alito, Gorsuch,…
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The Court’s Recent Lack of Support for the Federal Government’s Agenda
This is the first of a series of two posts examining the federal government’s litigation in the Supreme Court. While this post looks at the last several terms of government litigation, the next will analyze the government’s upcoming cases. The federal government, through the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG), is the most frequent…
Quick Note: Roberts Court Majority Opinion Assignment
Who decides which Justice authors a given majority opinion? There is, of course, the necessity that this Justice is part of the majority coalition. Beyond that though there are two main rules. The first is that the Chief Justice assigns the opinion if the Chief is a member of the majority. If the Chief is…
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