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Apr 1, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
Our Latest Newsletter: Acts of state, hedonic damages, and bang-bang commands.

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Sep 10, 2018 13 tweets 6 min read
For the first 127 years of the US Supreme Court, the Senate did not hold public confirmation hearings for nominees. The first public hearing was held in 1916 for Pres. Woodrow Wilson's nominee, Louis D. Brandeis...
#CourtingHistory Image 2/ Brandeis attended high school in Louisville, KY before living in Europe with his family for a few years. He then returned to study at Harvard Law. He became a public interest lawyer where he famously wrote a brief defending a law limiting women to 10 hours of work/day...