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Bonus 256: The Original “First” Amendment (opens the original)
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When we talk about the “Bill of Rights” today, we invariably mean the ten amendments that were officially adopted on December 15, 1791—when Virginia became the eleventh state to ratify “articles” that Congress had submitted to the states on September 25, 1789.1 But the First Congress had actually proposed twelve<a href="https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/b…
256. So Unexplained: Justice Alito’s Non-Responsive Emergency Docket Defense (opens the original)
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In the pre-publication galleys to his new book, So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country, Justice Alito spelled my last name inconsistently.1 This is, I suspect, the pettiest possible point on which to open in discussing a Supreme Court justice’s new memoir, and I would never have mentioned it except for the fact that inconsistency turns out to be the organizing feature of the chapter in…
255. Closing the Book on OT2025 (opens the original)
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Welcome back to “One First,” a newsletter that aims to make the U.S. Supreme Court more accessible to lawyers and non-lawyers alike. I’m grateful to all of you for your continued support, and I hope that you’ll consider sharing some of what we’re doing with your networks.ShareIf you’re not already a subscriber, please consider becoming one—and upgrading to a paid subscripti…
254. Four Things That (Really) Bother Me About “D.V.D. III” (opens the original)
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I have sometimes been asked to name the one contemporary emergency docket case that bothers me the most. My answer, even before Tuesday afternoon, has always been the litigation in D.V.D. v. Department of Homeland Security—the “third-country removals” case. (A “third-country removal” is when the government removes a deportable noncitizen to a country other than the countries that federal law identifies as appropriate candidates—a list that usually starts with their country of nationality or thei…
253. Introducing “The Court We Need” (opens the original)
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Welcome back to “One First,” a newsletter that aims to make the U.S. Supreme Court more accessible to lawyers and non-lawyers alike. I’m grateful to all of you for your continued support, and I hope that you’ll consider sharing some of what we’re doing with your networks.ShareThe Supreme Court made lots of news last week, and we’ll cover all of it below in the “On the Do…
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