The Supreme Court currently grants around eighty cases per year for its merits review. These cases tackle issues that often divide federal courts. The Court takes up some cases due to the national importance of resolving certain issues. With some of these cases that deal with issues that divide segments of the populations like abortion…
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Four Takeaways From this Term’s 2016 SCOTUS Oral Arguments
We are experiencing a changing of the guard in the Supreme Court. There has been an usually long period with an eight-Justice dynamic which will very possibly continue on through the end of the Court’s current Term. Without some unprecedented occurrence, President-Elect Trump will nominate the next Justice to the Supreme Court who will likely…
Immediate Effect of the Election on the Court and the Justices
The Justices have languished for months with the uncertainty of who will fill the empty seat on the Court. This uncertainty will by no means end soon, but the impending election and the election itself may have had a cathartic effect on the Justices. There is now greater likelihood that the empty seat will be…
Lessons In Not Throwing Caution To the Wind
It seems a fitting tribute to include a post about the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) on the day the current Solicitor General, Donald Verrilli, steps down. The OSG is one of main gatekeepers to the Supreme Court’s review. Multiple times every Term the Justices request the OSG to express views on whether or…
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