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238. Venue Engineering in the Efforts to Limit Gender-Affirming Medical Care for Minors
Welcome back to “One First,” a newsletter that aims to make the U.S. Supreme Court more accessible to lawyers and non-lawyers alike. I’m grateful to all of you for your continued support, and I hope that you’ll consider sharing some of what...
Bonus 237: Looking Toward OT2026
The Court's docket for its October 2026 Term doesn't yet have the kind of high-profile, Trump-related disputes that dominated OT2025. But they're coming.
Buried within all of the news the Supreme Court made last week were a series of grant...
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237. Last Week's Other News
Welcome back to “One First,” a newsletter that aims to make the U.S. Supreme Court more accessible to lawyers and non-lawyers alike. I’m grateful to all of you for your continued support, and I hope that you’ll consider sharing some of what...
Bonus 236: A Term of Self-Inflicted Wounds
The Supreme Court had numerous opportunities during OT2025 to act (and appear to be acting) above politics. One key theme of the term is how many it squandered.
Within minutes of the Supreme Court handing down the birthright citizenship ru...
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