Mechanical / Animal

Divided Argument by Will Baude & Dan Epps

Jun 28, 202600:56:10Government & Organizations

We're in triage mode as the Court clears its end-of-term backlog. We run through the week's opinion dump before focusing on two cases that look unrelated but turn on the same question: when may a state rewrite background...

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