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The Supreme Court has heard somewhere in the neighborhood of 60-70 oral arguments per term since Justice Kavanaugh joined the Court in the 2018 term. This is well more than 100 fewer arguments than the Court heard at the highest point of arguments per term around the first few decades of the 1900’s.  That time period overlapped with the Court moving from predominately unanimously decided cases to…

Amid Record-Breaking Consensus the Justices Divisions Still Run Deep

How divided is the current Supreme Court? On the surface the answer appears mixed.  Much conversation over from the past several years surrounding the Court’s decisions has had to do with partisan and ideological divisions among the justices.  These divisions and the Court’s rightward shift appear a reality as evidenced by the systematic victoriesof the Court’s conservative wing in ideologically…

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US SEC Commissioner Dissents From Agency’s Rejection of Winklevoss Bitcoin ETF

U.S. SEC Commissioner disagrees with the agency’s second rejection of the Winklevoss’ Bitcoin ETF

U.S. Securities and Exchange (SEC) Commissioner Hester M. Peirce has published a remark of reliable dissent from the company’s 2nd disapproval of the Winklevoss brothers’ utility for a Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) the previous day, July 26. The Winklevoss’ Bats BZX Exchange, Inc. (BZX) had filed a proposed rule alternate with the SEC in…

#EmpiricalSCOTUS Looking at the text of dissents for the most active dissenting justices on the Court since 1980

The Court’s opinions have been sliced, diced, and dissected in various fashions over the years as scholars and practitioners look for overt and latent meanings in the Court’s texts.  An object of study has often been the dissenting opinion.  The dissent is an interesting point of focus because both because of its purpose and its impetus.  Its purpose is not only to explain an alternate view of a…