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Where We Are At The End Of The Supreme Court's 2022 Term

[photo1]Recently there has been quite a bit of discussion on social media and in the press regarding inferences we can make from data on Supreme Court justices' behavior. One critique raised was that ...

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Jul 2023

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Term Update: We Haven't Seen This In Over 25 Years

[photo1]So far this term, the liberal justices on the Supreme Court only have a combined four dissents through 26 argued and signed decisions. That is about a 5% dissent rate. For some perspective, th...

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May 2023

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So, You Cut Into an Unripe Avocado

It's 7 a.m., and you're feeling smug about waking up in time to make breakfast. Your dish of choice? Avocado toast. But then, disaster. You slice into an alligator pear, only to find that it is decide...

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May 2023

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Even Best Friends Sometimes Disagree

[photo1]Supreme Court justices' voting practices are fairly predictable. For instance, most decisions are unanimous. Since the longest serving justice on the Court, Justice Thomas, joined the Court i...

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Mar 2023

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SCOTUS Predictions Based On Lower Court Judges

[photo1]One of the best ways to forecast future events is through past trends. The U.S. Supreme Court hears the majority of its cases after a decision is rendered by one of the 13 federal courts of a...

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Mar 2023

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Sedimentation threatens to steal capacity from nearly 50,000 dams

Slowly but surely, the world's reservoirs are getting gunked up with sediment. In an unblocked river, the flowing water carries bits of sediment along--picked up from river banks or swept ...

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Jan 2023

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How California could save up its rain to ease future droughts

California has seen so much rain over the past few weeks that farm fields are inundated and normally dry creeks and drainage ditches have become torrents of water racing toward the ocean. ...

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Jan 2023