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...chair of the Harvard College Queer Students and Allies, in an e-mailed statement. “Personally, I think it has to be used in tandem with any number of other legal arguments. Refuting Scalia’s and other justices?? argument of 'special rights' is going to be more important...
...straightforward. The main criterion used by the court is whether a case would give “the country a uniform interpretation of federal law,” Breyer said. “We are not an error-correcting court.” Breyer also shed light into the justices?? secret Friday conferences—where the nine meet to choose cases and deliberate opinions—and how the law clerks contribute to the court’s operations. He said that all the appeals petitions that the court receives are read by one of the justices?...
...nation grew, though, so did the number of justices??reaching a peak of 10 during Abraham Lincoln’s first term. It wasn’t until 1869 that Congress set the Supreme Court to its current size of nine members...
...think it’s most likely that Justice Breyer would raise the statutory argument in the justices?? conference,” Yale law professor Robert A. Burt wrote in an e-mail. “Breyer took the clearest initiative in raising it with the solicitor general...
...Harvard professors’ brief could still sway the justices??even if FAIR doesn’t raise the point. The dean of George Mason University School of Law and a prominent Solomon Amendment supporter, Daniel D. Polsby, wrote in an e-mail, “I would not be surprised if the Dellinger brief came up at oral argument.” (The lead counsel on the Harvard faculty brief is actually a Duke University professor, Walter E. Dellinger III, who served as the Justice Department’s top lawyer before the high court under President...