Grasping how the nation’s highest court makes policy requires stepping into an exceptionally regulated and sometimes hidden routine.
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Why do rap lyrics continue to be used to demonize people inside and outside the courtroom, in ways that no other art form has to contend with?
34 groups filed briefs with the Supreme Court in favor of keeping Donald Trump on the ballot, 30 favored disqualifying him as an insurrectionist, and 14 simply added legal information to the record.
Lawyers submitting briefs to the Supreme Court in the Trump Colorado ballot case must file a ‘certificate of word count.’ Why? As one judge put it, lawyers’ briefs are ‘too long, too long, too long.’
Special interests use the court as a public policy battleground. Here’s a rundown of how that works and which groups are likely to appear before a conservative court with Amy Coney Barrett on it.
Was a friend-of-the-court brief filed with the Supreme Court by five Democratic senators a legal argument – or a political threat?
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Professor of Legal Studies and Political Science, UMass Amherst
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