Judicial Opinion Writing
America and the Courts (Satuday, Aug. 2nd)
760 viewsU.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was joined in conversation about standards of excellence in legal reasoning and how the law’s coherence is principally advanced or impeded in opinion …
707 viewsSupreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and his former colleague in the Solicitor General’s office, attorney Carter Phillips, talked about Supreme Court advocacy and deliberation. The conversatio…
1,070 viewsIn a portion of a symposium held at Pepperdine University Law School in Malibu, California reviewing the 2005-2006 U.S. Supreme Court term, panelists talked about the new justices on the cou…
127 viewsThe Senate Rules Committee met to discuss possible changes to Senate rules governing filibusters and extended debate. At issue was the requirement that a 2/3 majority vote was needed to limi…
166 viewsOn America and the Courts this week, two commencement addresses and a special reading by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. First, from May 3, 2003, White House Counsel Alberto Gonz…
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