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RE: Supreme Court Throwback: How do you pronounce “certiorari”?
0 Comments Published by AJ May 12th, 2009 in Court ProcedureI’ve been thinking about Kedar’s post on the issue, and I am compelled somewhat bizarrely by this form of pedantry. My compulsive use of Google has unearthed the following: The vulgar Latin that was prevalent in large parts of Europe in the centuries post-Rome, when the term was likely adopted, would have pronounced it more [...]
More Young People Need to Vote and Fewer Old People Need to Run Everything
10 Comments Published by AJ August 16th, 2007 in Constitutional LawToday I’ve mused quite a bit about both how much I hate Dallas and also about a small constitutional question. I accidentally bought a Dallas Morning News instead of an Austin-American Statesman today at lunch, and this article was on the center of the front page. This was my first clue that I had bought a Dallas [...]


