Off to #SCOTUS, where Justice Brett Kavanaugh has joined the court and will be hearing arguments in two criminal sentencing cases today.
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Kavanaugh asked multiple questions in his first case sitting as a justice, still sounding a bit like an intermediate court judge at moments. At one point, for example, he asked something like, “How do we understand what the court meant” by language in a prior
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A bit interestingly, there was a continued sense of the compromising spirit that animated last week’s arguments. (See: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisgeidner/supreme-court-eight-justices-compromise-kavanaugh …) Of course, this is a statutory interpretation, and not a constitutional, case, and not even a high-profile one of those. So: Stay tuned.
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