DailyWrit

I’ve updated the speaking statistics to reflect this month’s oral arguments. You can find a rough sketch of my methodology on speaking here and on laughter here. You can click on the images to see a larger version. You can find my data here (Numbers required.)
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This is nothing new, groundbreaking, or particularly insightful but I was reading Hill v. Colorado (2000) for one of my Constitutional Law classes and I stumbled upon this line from the introduction to Justice Scalia’s dissent:
None of these remarkable conclusions should come as a surprise. What is before us, after all, is a speech […]

Hilary Clinton makes some remarks on the state of the Court and the person she would potentially select if given the opportunity.

Well, her comments are hypocritical to say the least. She engages in judge-bashing even though she isn’t saying names but she ridicules others for doing it. She has some good ideas about overturning Ledbetter […]

The Supreme Court today issued a temporary stay in the execution of Thomas D. Arthur (here). Not a lot of real analysis required in this case- the Court has been doing this since mid-October. Its getting old.