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A prisoner who is actually innocent, imprisoned for conduct that Congress did not criminalize, is forever barred from raising that claim, merely because he previously sought postconviction relief. 0.900

👤 Sotomayor & Kagan, JJ., dissenting 📋 Legal Article 🏷️ Law , Innocence

Simplified: Prisoner actually innocent imprisoned for conduct Congress did not criminalize is forever barred from raising that claim because he previously sought...

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Plessy v. Ferguson was a legal case. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Legal Article 🏷️ Law , History

Simplified: Plessy v Ferguson was a legal case

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If the breacher will not pay damages, the sheriff will sequester his house and goods. 0.900

👤 Professor Stephen Carter 📋 Legal Article 🏷️ Law

Simplified: If breacher will not pay damages sheriff will sequester house and goods

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A mother is serving a two-year prison sentence for helping her seventeen-year-old daughter obtain and use abortion pills. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Legal Article 🏷️ Law , Abortion

Simplified: Mother is serving two-year prison sentence for helping daughter obtain and use abortion pills

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An enslaved party was involved in Dred Scott v. Sandford. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Legal Article 🏷️ Law , History

Simplified: Enslaved party was involved in Dred Scott v Sandford

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England’s colonial practice “of issuing writs of assistance . . . [empowering] revenue officers . . . to search suspected places for smuggled goods” without warrant, which John Adams called the birth... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Legal Article 🏷️ History , Law

Simplified: England issued writs of assistance empowering revenue officers to search suspected places for smuggled goods without warrant John Adams called birth o...

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Eric Garner died as a result of a decision to crack down on the sale of untaxed cigarettes. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Legal Article 🏷️ Law , Crime

Simplified: Eric Garner died as result of decision to crack down on sale of untaxed cigarettes

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The American legal regime is morally legitimate in its relationship to most if not all citizens. 0.700

👤 The author 📋 Legal Article 🏷️ Law , Ethics

Simplified: American legal regime is morally legitimate in relationship to most citizens

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The Court’s interpretations are permissibly within the rules of the legal system. 0.800

👤 The author 📋 Legal Article 🏷️ Law

Simplified: Court interpretations are permissibly within legal system rules

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301 U.S. 1 (1937) is a legal citation. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Legal Article 🏷️ Law

Simplified: 301 U.S. 1 (1937) is a legal citation

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Behind every exercise of law stands the sheriff. 0.900

👤 Professor Stephen Carter 📋 Legal Article 🏷️ Law

Simplified: Behind every exercise of law stands the sheriff

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See Doerfler & Moyn, supra note 1, at 1724 (discussing Theodore Voorhees, It’s Time for Merit Selection of Supreme Court Justices, 61 ABA J. 705 (1975)). 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Legal Article 🏷️ Law , Legal

Simplified: Doerfler & Moyn discussed Theodore Voorhees It’s Time for Merit Selection of Supreme Court Justices in 61 ABA J 705 in 1975

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See Molly Ball & Tessa Berenson, Brett Kavanaugh’s Confirmation Fight Exposes Major Problems with the Nation’s Most Powerful Court, TIME (Sept. 27, 2018, 6:13 AM), https://time.com/5407920/supreme-cou... 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Legal Article 🏷️ Law , Legal

Simplified: Molly Ball & Tessa Berenson wrote Brett Kavanaugh’s Confirmation Fight Exposes Major Problems with the Nation’s Most Powerful Court in TIME September...

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See U.S. Const. art. III, § 1. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Legal Document 🏷️ Law , Legal

Simplified: U S Const art III § 1

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See Neal Devins & Lawrence Baum, Split Definitive: How Party Polarization Turned the Supreme Court into a Partisan Court, 2016 Sup. Ct. Rev. 301, 301, 309, 317–21 (2017). 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Legal Article 🏷️ Law , Legal

Simplified: Neal Devins & Lawrence Baum wrote Split Definitive How Party Polarization Turned the Supreme Court into a Partisan Court in 2016 Sup Ct Rev 301 301 30...

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Both Badas and Caldeira use responses from a 1937 Gallup survey that included questions about Court packing. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Legal Article 🏷️ History , Law , Politics

Simplified: Badas and Caldeira use responses from a 1937 Gallup survey that included questions about Court packing

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See Robin Bradley Kar & Jason Mazzone, Essay, The Garland Affair: What History and the Constitution Really Say About President Obama’s Powers to Appoint a Replacement for Justice Scalia, 91 N.Y.U. L.... 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Legal Article 🏷️ Law , Legal

Simplified: Robin Bradley Kar & Jason Mazzone wrote The Garland Affair What History and the Constitution Really Say About President Obama’s Powers to Appoint a Re...

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Roosevelt and the Democratic Congress faced little political opposition to passing their legislative agenda but were consistently rebuked by the Supreme Court. 1.000

👤 Alex Badas 📋 Legal Article 🏷️ Politics , History , Law

Simplified: Roosevelt and the Democratic Congress faced little political opposition to passing their legislative agenda but were consistently rebuked by the Supre...

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The Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States identified two moments as key reform epochs of the twentieth century. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Legal Article 🏷️ History , Law

Simplified: Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States identified two moments as key reform epochs of the twentieth century

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See Rebecca R. Ruiz et al., A Conservative Agenda Unleashed on the Federal Courts, N.Y. Times (Mar. 16, 2020), https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/us/trump-appeals-court-judges.html [https://perma.cc/8... 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Legal Article 🏷️ Law , Legal

Simplified: Rebecca R Ruiz et al wrote A Conservative Agenda Unleashed on the Federal Courts in N Y Times March 16 2020

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