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mahatmakanejeeves

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Tue Aug 5, 2025, 12:15 PM Aug 5

"Jack Goldsmith points out that Justice Barrett's opinion in the universal injunction case rests on an error ..."

Kevin M. Kruse
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It's fun when judges pretend to be historians, isn't it?

‪Mark Joseph Stern‬
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Conservative legal luminary Jack Goldsmith points out that Justice Barrett's opinion in the universal injunction case rests on an error: For the purposes of historical analysis, she looked at the wrong statute and got the relevant date wrong by nearly *a century.*

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5378193

August 5, 2025 at 10:33 AM

It's fun when judges pretend to be historians, isn't it?

Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) 2025-08-05T14:33:59.168Z


Mark Joseph Stern
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Conservative legal luminary Jack Goldsmith points out that Justice Barrett's opinion in the universal injunction case rests on an error: For the purposes of historical analysis, she looked at the wrong statute and got the relevant date wrong by nearly *a century.*

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5378193

August 5, 2025 at 10:12 AM

Conservative legal luminary Jack Goldsmith points out that Justice Barrett's opinion in the universal injunction case rests on an error: For the purposes of historical analysis, she looked at the wrong statute and got the relevant date wrong by nearly *a century.*
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) 2025-08-05T14:12:55.159Z
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"Jack Goldsmith points out that Justice Barrett's opinion in the universal injunction case rests on an error ..." (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Aug 5 OP
That was a crappy opinion not based on real law but partisan objectives LetMyPeopleVote Aug 5 #1

LetMyPeopleVote

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1. That was a crappy opinion not based on real law but partisan objectives
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 01:55 PM
Aug 5

The law did not matter in that opinion. Barrett had a result and justified her partisan political position. Alito's abortion opinion was based on similar made-up law/history

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