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Mentions of Justice Scalia surge at conservative-dominated courtroom throughout oral arguments
The late U.S. Supreme Courtroom Justice Antonin Scalia’s official portrait.
References to the late Justice Antonin Scalia spiked throughout U.S. Supreme Courtroom oral arguments this yr, according to a Bloomberg Law analysis.
Scalia’s identify was invoked by justices and attorneys practically three dozen occasions for the reason that present time period started in October, about the identical quantity of references that he’s obtained in most full calendar years since he died in 2016, the evaluation reveals.
That signifies that the conservative former justice identified for his biting dissents within the minority is now a “reference level for the way arguments are framed,” John Elwood, the pinnacle of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer’s appellate observe, instructed Bloomberg Regulation.
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