This case undermined state control over its own property law and probably gave the property owner an undeserved benefit.
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A key part of the majority opinion seems to conflict with the majority opinion in an Indian law case decided just a few days earlier.
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The Supreme Court has re-confirmed a key rule of constitutional amendment law.
The weaponization of institutions against conservative politicians is nothing new, but Trump, unlike others, has not learned how to counter it.
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The Commerce Clause part of the decision is a mess. There is no more polite way to describe it.
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Justice Clarence Thomas frequently uses concurring and dissenting opinions to explain the Constitution’s fundamental principles.
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“Progressive” priorities are not about solving real problems. Rather, they center on degrading well-run First World locales into Third World hell-holes.
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Justice Alito’s majority opinion held that the phrase “waters of the United States” means only defined bodies of water—such as lakes and streams—and those wetlands that so border them that their waters’ surface merges with the surface of the lake or stream.
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The justices unanimously ruled that keeping the entire tax-sale proceeds was unconstitutional.
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The Connecticut delegates achieved their goals through their willingness and skill in proposing moderate solutions and mutually reinforcing each other.
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Franklin often used his wit to communicate real-world lessons.
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With one exception, neither the judges nor the parties in the case seemed to understand any of the basic principles of amendment law listed here.
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