At that time, the Fifth Circuit heard appeals from federal trial courts in the states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida—the very heart of resistance to racial equality, ...

Thomas R. Newman and Steven J. Ahmuty, Jr. Thomas R. Newman and Steven J. Ahmuty Jr. With limited exceptions, issues raised for the first time on appeal will not be considered as grounds for a ...

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This final blog post about the role of unstated legal ideas in deforming the Constitution involves a third unstated idea, beyond either the part played by the "three buckets" idea, combined with the ...

Under longstanding tradition, the chief justice presides over oral argument and the justices’ private conferences. I propose ...