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Cherry-picked history and ideology-driven outcomes: Bruen’s originalist distortions

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But the Texas statute, and the rationales set forth in English and Duke , are outliers.” Graphic courtesy of Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, Saul Cornell, “History and Tradition or Fantasy and Fiction: Which Version of the Past Will the Supreme Court Choose in NYSRPA v. June, 2022).

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2022

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This spring, after POLITICO published a draft opinion of Dobbs and revealed that the court was poised to overturn Roe , Beckwith praised the leak. Curtis, who grew up in Georgia with cognitive and developmental disabilities, always hoped to leave these facilities and move back into her community. Lois Curtis (July 14, 1967 – Nov.

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