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Tune in to the 17th episode of SOC! SIDEBAR on Tuesday, October 20th at 8:00 PM ET. This episode, “Coaching Basketball,” features The Hon. Sarah Hawkins Warren. Each month, our Student Division and a rotating Student Chapter host a Zoom series called SOC! SIDEBAR, featuring a

The whole article by @jancbs includes much more, a remarkably candid conversation with Justice Alito that makes this article a must-read. One of the most important contributions of the article is the discussion about how threats to the Justices have escalated as an intimidation

On the metaphor of Justices-as-umpires (popularized by Chief Justice Roberts): Alito said judges are like umps in that they both have to make judgment calls and that's why Alito is a "practical originalist," saying "In the end, if that's what it says, then that's what the

On attempted social pressure to change Alito's decisions: Someone approached him at a social setting and urged him to "decide a few of these cases differently" to "burnish [his] public image" to which Alito responded "that's absolutely wrong. That's not what we're supposed to

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