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Mentions of Justice Scalia surge at conservative-dominated courtroom throughout oral arguments
December 23, 2025, 10:51 am CST
The late U.S. Supreme Court docket Justice Antonin Scalia’s official portrait.
References to the late Justice Antonin Scalia spiked throughout U.S. Supreme Court docket oral arguments this yr, in keeping with a Bloomberg Regulation evaluation.
Scalia’s title was invoked by justices and attorneys practically three dozen occasions for the reason that present time period started in October, about the identical quantity of references that he’s acquired in most full calendar years since he died in 2016, the evaluation exhibits.
That signifies that the conservative former justice recognized for his biting dissents within the minority is now a “reference level for the way arguments are framed,” John Elwood, the top of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer’s appellate apply, advised Bloomberg Regulation.
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