This term's sharpest dissents often looked beyond perceived flaws in majority reasoning to raise existential concerns about the role of the justices and lament the future of the U.S. Supreme Court and the nation.
The justices accused one another of rewarding lawlessness, harming faith in the judiciary and threatening the entire project of democracy.
And see Paul Watford's The Quiet Power of Dissent: Why Judicial Diversity and Appellate Voices Matter — The Appellate Project
Feel like an appellate trip to the Windy City?
A friendly reminder that registration is nearing capacity for the 2025 Seventh Circuit Judicial Conference, which will take place from August 17 to 19 at the Swissotel Chicago. This year's program features United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, former United States Solicitors General Paul Clement and Elizabeth Prelogar, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gilbert King, New York Times Supreme Court correspondent Adam Liptak, legal writing expert Ross Guberman, and more. Plenary sessions will focus on AI, litigating originalism, a Supreme Court and Seventh Circuit legal review, and ethics. We expect approximately 8 hours of Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin CLE credit to be available. You can register for the conference by clicking this link: https://registration.crowdcomms.com/benchbarconference25/register. Interest in the conference has exceeded our expectations, and we are nearing registration capacity.
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