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In-person arguments come out of storage

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After a particularly busy and newsy couple of months for the Supreme Court and its shadow — er, emergency — docket and for some individual justices and their public appearances, the focus shifts back to the regular merits docket today. Also filing into that gallery are the justices’ law clerks and a few other court employees.

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Two cases. Three hours of arguments. Four sets of lawyers. Fifty mentions of abortion. One pair of red socks.

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Texas by saying the Supreme Court would weigh “the constitutionality of the Texas abortion law.”. 8 from federal court review. He has denied the charges, and is evidently still a member in good standing of the Supreme Court Bar, so he has pulled up a chair at the end of his team’s table. Jackson and United States v. Not so fast.

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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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In a split decision, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that young people and other plaintiffs asserting a claim against the federal government for infringement of a Fifth Amendment due process right to a “ climate system capable of sustaining human life” did not have Article III standing. One reason the petitioners asked the D.C.