Court Drafting Legal Stare Decisis 
JonathanTurley
MAY 14, 2022
Associate Justice Clarence Thomas made an interesting comment this weekend about the hold of precedent on the Court. After denouncing the recent leak of the draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade as “an infidelity,” Thomas dismissed the reliance on the principle of stare decisis , or the respect for precedent.
LawSites
JUNE 2, 2022
The surreptitiously leaked draft of Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion overturning Roe v. But, legal tech nerd that I am, I wondered how the draft would fare if I subjected it to the scrutiny of the legal editing software BriefCatch , which recently rolled out a new-and-improved version 3 of its product.
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SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 27, 2022
Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. In Monday’s orders , the Supreme Court disposed of three relists. To begin with the unhappy news (at least for petitioners), the court denied review without comment in one-time relist Kelly v.
SCOTUSBlog
JANUARY 16, 2024
Share The Supreme Court will hear oral argument on Wednesday in a case involving the deference that courts should give to federal agencies’ interpretations of the laws that they administer. It is named after the Supreme Court’s 1984 opinion in Chevron v. The doctrine at the center of the case is known as the Chevron doctrine.
SCOTUSBlog
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement from the Supreme Court at the end of this term will mark the end of an era. Both he and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — who untimely passed early in the 2020-21 term — shared similar ideological perspectives, approaches to judicial review, and paths to the Supreme Court. In Whole Woman’s Health v.
SCOTUSBlog
JULY 7, 2022
The new balance of power on the court was on display before the term officially began, when the justices rejected a request to block enforcement of S.B. The court’s third liberal, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, also dissented, though she did not join Roberts’ opinion.). An abortion prelude. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. The fall of Roe.
JonathanTurley
MAY 4, 2022
The response to the leaked draft opinion overturning Roe v. The draft opinion written by Justice Alito declares “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled. No less a legal figure as Stephen Colbert declared “They knew, that if they were honest, they wouldn’t get the job. Wade is an important precedent of the Supreme Court.
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