U.S. Supreme Court
Mentions of Justice Scalia surge at conservative-dominated court during oral arguments
The late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s official portrait.
References to the late Justice Antonin Scalia spiked during U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments this year, according to a Bloomberg Law analysis.
Scalia’s name was invoked by justices and attorneys nearly three dozen times since the current term began in October, about the same amount of references that he’s received in most full calendar years since he died in 2016, the analysis shows.
That means that the conservative former justice known for his biting dissents in the minority is now a “reference point for how arguments are framed,” John Elwood, the head of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer’s appellate practice, told Bloomberg Law.
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