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A few months ago I linked to a lecture called "Beyond Textualism?" that I gave at Harvard Law School in the "Scalia Lecture" series -- on what the core insight of textualism is and how we might extend ...

The former U.S. Supreme Court justice's book provides excellent analysis of the contrast between textualism/originalism, but was not as forceful as it could have been in highlighting examples where ...

On Monday, the Supreme Court sided with the government in a pair of cases brought by noncitizens who are under deportation orders and were in lengthy detention, rejecting lower courts’ ...

During Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearing, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) seemed triumphant when she confronted the Supreme Court nominee with the fact that the word “abortion” is not ...

On Monday, the Supreme Court handed down five decisions, four of which focused on statutory interpretation. First, Justice Sotomayor wrote the majority opinion in Johnson v. Arteaga-Martinez. She ...

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This week on Trump's Trials, host Scott Detrow is joined by retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. In Breyer's new book Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism, Breyer ...

Retired Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer arrives for the State Dinner with President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 1, ...

The conservative majority of the Supreme Court has held that a law that bars obstructing or impeding a federal proceeding doesn’t apply to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol; despite the rioters’ effort ...