When lawyers think about legal writing, they tend to focus on their submissions to courts. Some of my work shows that writing quality matters from trial courts on up. Lawyers aren’t the only court actors who care about their legal writing though. Lawrence Baum and others (including Judge Posner) have looked at judicial writings and…
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Supreme Court Justice T.V. News Coverage
Supreme Court Justices live dual lives. On one hand they predominately manage to stay out of the limelight while actually doing their jobs. Even with pressure to the contrary, the justices have managed to keep cameras out of the Court, and to limit the release of audio recordings of oral arguments to the Fridays after the…
A Ban The Court Would Love to Avoid
On June 1, the Trump Administration filed its application to stay the Fourth Circuit’s preliminary injunction against the attempted travel ban and petition for cert in the case. While this is only the Supreme Court’s first potential entry point into this dispute, it marks an opportunity for the Court to rule on a central item…
Empirical SCOTUS 