The Supreme Court may be on summer recess but that doesn’t mean the justices are free from work-related obligations. Throughout the year some of the most significant decisions the justices make are performed unilaterally. The justices are each assigned to a certain geographic region associated with a judicial circuit or circuits and by virtue of…
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A Growing Fracture in the Death Penalty
Under Chief Justice Roberts, the Supreme Court has revisited the issue of capital punishment on numerous occasions. Just in terms of overall cases, the Court has ruled on 23 since the beginning of the 2005 Term (habeas cases where the Court granted cert and ruled on the merits simultaneously are excluded from this count). These…
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