U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court is named in 149 events across the Capture Cascade Timeline, from 1803 to 2026.
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-01 | Supreme Court Hears Birthright Citizenship Arguments; Gorsuch Exposes Government's Inability to Protect Native American Citizenship U.S. Supreme Court · Neil Gorsuch · D. John Sauer · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-11 | Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to End Deportation Protections for 350,000 Haitians Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Kristi Noem · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-07 | Trump Administration Escalates Campaign to Strip Federal Judges of Power to Block Presidential Orders Trump Administration · U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Department of Justice · U.S. House of Representatives | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-05 | 24 State Attorneys General Sue Trump Over New Tariffs After Supreme Court Struck Down Previous Ones New York Attorney General Letitia James · U.S. Court of International Trade · U.S. Supreme Court · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-27 | US Catholic Bishops Call Trump Birthright Citizenship Order "Affront to Catholic Teaching," File SCOTUS Brief U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops · Donald Trump · U.S. Supreme Court · Bishop Brendan Cahill | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-29 | Supreme Court to Hear Birthright Citizenship Challenge in April U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · American Civil Liberties Union · D. John Sauer | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-21 | Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Presidential Removal Power in Trump v Cook U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · D. John Sauer · Brett Kavanaugh · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-21 | Supreme Court Hears Trump v. Cook, Justices Skeptical of Presidential Power to Fire Federal Reserve Governors Donald Trump · Lisa Cook · U.S. Supreme Court · Brett Kavanaugh · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-20 | Supreme Court Issues Three Unanimous Rulings on Federal Procedures U.S. Supreme Court · Amy Coney Barrett · Samuel Alito | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-14 | Supreme Court Rules 7-2 in Bost v. Illinois That Candidates Have Standing to Challenge Election Rules U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Ketanji Brown Jackson · Sonia Sotomayor · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-13 | Supreme Court Hears Transgender Sports Ban Cases, Signals Support for Restrictions U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Brett Kavanaugh · Samuel Alito · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-09 | Supreme Court Narrows AEDPA Bar on Federal Habeas Claims U.S. Supreme Court · Sonia Sotomayor · Neil Gorsuch · John Roberts | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-07 | National Guard Troops Return Home After Supreme Court Blocks Trump Deployment to Chicago, Portland, LA Donald Trump · Gavin Newsom · Brandon Johnson · U.S. Northern Command · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-23 | Supreme Court Blocks Trump National Guard Deployment to Chicago, Ruling 'Regular Forces' Means Military U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · John Roberts · Brett Kavanaugh · +9 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-08 | Supreme Court Signals Intent to Overturn 90-Year Precedent Protecting Independent Agency Leaders from Presidential Firing, Expanding Executive Power U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · Rebecca Slaughter · John Roberts · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-05 | Supreme Court Grants Review of Trump's Birthright Citizenship Challenge, Setting Stage for Constitutional Crisis U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · D. John Sauer · American Civil Liberties Union · +5 | disputed | |
| 2025-11-07 | Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks Full SNAP Payments to 42 Million Americans U.S. Supreme Court · Ketanji Brown Jackson · John McConnell Jr. · U.S. Department of Agriculture · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-11-06 | Supreme Court Issues Emergency Stay Allowing Trump Administration to Withhold $4 Billion in SNAP Food Benefits U.S. Supreme Court · Ketanji Brown Jackson · John McConnell · USDA | reported | |
| 2025-11-05 | Supreme Court Hears Landmark Tariff Case, Justices Express Deep Skepticism of Trump's Emergency Powers Donald Trump · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-29 | Supreme Court to Review Trump's Federalization of National Guard in Chicago, Nationwide Implications April Perry · Donald Trump · JB Pritzker · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-15 | Supreme Court Reargues Louisiana v. Callais, Threatens Voting Rights Act U.S. Supreme Court · Louisiana · American Civil Liberties Union · NAACP Legal Defense Fund · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-06 | Supreme Court Begins 2025-2026 Term with Focus on Executive Power and Voting Rights U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Conservative Majority | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-03 | Supreme Court Uses Emergency Docket to Expand Presidential Power U.S. Supreme Court · Trump Administration · Conservative Supreme Court Majority | reported | |
| 2025-09-26 | Supreme Court Allows Trump to Withhold $4B in Foreign Aid Through Illegal 'Pocket Rescission' U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · Elena Kagan · Mike Johnson · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-22 | Supreme Court Agrees to Reconsider Humphrey's Executor, Review Trump's Power to Fire Agency Heads U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · Rebecca Slaughter · Federal Trade Commission · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-22 | Supreme Court Allows Trump to Fire FTC Commissioner Slaughter, Threatens Independent Agencies U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · Rebecca Slaughter · Alvaro Bedoya · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-09 | Heritage Foundation Publishes 800-Page Constitutional Guide as Trump's Judicial Roadmap Heritage Foundation · Justice Samuel Alito · Donald Trump · U.S. Supreme Court | reported | |
| 2025-09-04 | Trump Administration Petitions Supreme Court for Emergency Review of Tariffs Ruling Donald Trump · U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · Department of Justice | reported | |
| 2025-09-02 | Supreme Court Allows Trump to Remove FTC Commissioner, Gutting Agency Independence Chief Justice John Roberts · Donald Trump · Rebecca Slaughter · U.S. Supreme Court · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-08-29 | Federal Circuit Court Rules Trump Tariffs Violated IEEPA, Exceeded Presidential Authority U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · Donald Trump · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | Supreme Court Expands Louisiana Redistricting Case to Challenge Section 2 of Voting Rights Act U.S. Supreme Court · Department of Justice · Louisiana · NAACP Legal Defense Fund · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-14 | Supreme Court 6-3 Stay Authorizes Mass Federal Workforce Reductions at 22 Agencies U.S. Supreme Court · Trump Administration · American Federation of Government Employees | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-08 | Supreme Court lifts injunctions, enables mass firings at 19 federal agencies U.S. Supreme Court · Federal Agencies · General Services Administration · Department of Government Efficiency · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-27 | Supreme Court Restricts Nationwide Injunctions in Trump v. CASA, Expanding Executive Power U.S. Supreme Court · Trump Administration · CASA de Maryland | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-23 | Supreme Court 6-3 Allows Third-Country Deportations Without Due Process U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Sonia Sotomayor | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-21 | Trump systematically dismantles post-Watergate institutional safeguards Donald Trump · Trump Administration · U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Congress · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-29 | Federal Courts Rule Trump's IEEPA Tariffs Illegal in Multiple Cases Donald Trump · Rudolph Contreras · U.S. Court of International Trade · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-18 | Supreme Court Hearing Challenges Presidential National Guard Federalization Powers U.S. Supreme Court · State Governors · U.S. Department of Defense · California Governor · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-07 | Supreme Court Confronts Systemic Emoluments Violations U.S. Supreme Court · Department of Justice · Executive Branch | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-05 | Supreme Court Attempts to Mitigate Constitutional Emergency Powers Dispute U.S. Supreme Court · Executive Branch · Legislative Branch | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-05 | Trump Administration Escalates Judicial Oversight Tensions Trump Administration · Federal Courts · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-10 | Federal Judges Establish Precedent for Presidential Accountability Federal Judiciary · U.S. Supreme Court · Department of Justice · Rebecca Slaughter · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | Trump Invokes Emergency Powers Act (IEEPA) to Impose Unprecedented Reciprocal Tariffs Donald Trump · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-22 | Supreme Court Continues to Sidestep Definitive Ruling on Presidential Emoluments U.S. Supreme Court · Trump Administration · Ethics Watchdogs | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-15 | Supreme Court Conducts Unprecedented Hearing on Presidential Emoluments U.S. Supreme Court · Trump Administration · Constitutional Scholars | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | Federal Courts Grapple with Unprecedented Emoluments Enforcement Challenge U.S. Supreme Court · Federal District Courts · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | Federal Judges Address Escalating Threats to Judicial Independence Chief Justice John Roberts · Chief Judge James Boasberg · Federal Judiciary · U.S. Supreme Court · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | Supreme Court Confronts Unprecedented National Guard Federalization Crisis U.S. Supreme Court · Trump Administration · State Governors · Brian Schwalb · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | JD Vance Sworn In as 50th Vice President, Positioned for Potential Constitutional Crisis Management JD Vance · Brett Kavanaugh · Donald Trump · Usha Vance · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump Signs Unconstitutional Executive Order Challenging Birthright Citizenship Donald Trump · Department of Justice · U.S. Supreme Court · Asian Law Caucus · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-01 | Supreme Court Grants Broad Presidential Immunity in Trump v. United States, Creating King-Like Powers U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice John Roberts · Justice Clarence Thomas · Justice Samuel Alito · +10 | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-27 | Supreme Court Rejects $6B Purdue Pharma Settlement Granting Sackler Family Immunity from Opioid Lawsuits U.S. Supreme Court · Sackler Family · Purdue Pharma · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-27 | Supreme Court Rejects Sackler Immunity in 5-4 Decision, Blocks Bankruptcy Shield U.S. Supreme Court · Neil Gorsuch · Ketanji Brown Jackson · Brett Kavanaugh · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-30 | Supreme Court Allows Religious Exemptions from Anti-Discrimination Laws in 303 Creative v. Elenis U.S. Supreme Court · Justice Neil Gorsuch · Chief Justice John Roberts · Justice Clarence Thomas · +12 | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-29 | Supreme Court Ends Affirmative Action in College Admissions in Students for Fair Admissions Decisions U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice John Roberts · Justice Clarence Thomas · Justice Samuel Alito · +12 | confirmed | |
| 2023-04-06 | ProPublica Exposes Two Decades of Undisclosed Thomas-Crow Gifts ProPublica · Clarence Thomas · Harlan Crow · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-30 | Supreme Court Establishes Major Questions Doctrine in West Virginia v. EPA, Limiting Regulatory Power U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice John Roberts · Justice Clarence Thomas · Justice Samuel Alito · +10 | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-13 | Supreme Court Blocks Biden OSHA Vaccine Mandate as Executive Overreach U.S. Supreme Court · Joe Biden · Occupational Safety and Health Administration · U.S. Department of Labor | confirmed | |
| 2021-08-26 | Supreme Court Strikes Down CDC Eviction Moratorium as Unauthorized Executive Action U.S. Supreme Court · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Joe Biden · Alabama Association of Realtors | confirmed | |
| 2019-06-27 | Supreme Court Rules Partisan Gerrymandering Beyond Federal Court Jurisdiction U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Robert Rucho · Common Cause | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-11 | Supreme Court Upholds Ohio's Aggressive "Use It Or Lose It" Voter Purge System U.S. Supreme Court · Samuel Alito · Sonia Sotomayor · Jon Husted | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-21 | Epic Systems v. Lewis: Supreme Court Allows Mandatory Arbitration Blocking Class Action Labor Claims U.S. Supreme Court · Neil Gorsuch · Federalist Society · Corporate employers · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-02-26 | Texas Leads 20 Republican States in Lawsuit Seeking to Eliminate Entire ACA Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton · Judge Reed O'Connor · 20 Republican State Attorneys General · California Attorney General Xavier Becerra · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-05-22 | TC Heartland v. Kraft: Supreme Court Limits Patent Forum Shopping, Curbing Eastern District of Texas Troll Haven U.S. Supreme Court · Clarence Thomas · TC Heartland · Kraft Foods · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2015-06-25 | Supreme Court Rejects King v. Burwell Challenge to ACA Subsidies in Federal Exchanges U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice John Roberts · Justice Antonin Scalia · King (Plaintiff) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2014-06-25 | Supreme Court Rules Warrantless Cell Phone Searches Unconstitutional in Riley v. California U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts | confirmed | |
| 2014-06-19 | Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank: Supreme Court Restricts Software Patents, Reducing Patent Troll Leverage Over Abstract Business Methods U.S. Supreme Court · Clarence Thomas · Alice Corp · CLS Bank International · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2014-06-16 | Supreme Court backs broad discovery in Argentina debt case (Alito joined majority); Singer's fund later benefited Samuel Alito · Paul Singer · Elliott Management · Republic of Argentina · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2014-04-02 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Aggregate Campaign Contribution Limits in McCutcheon v. FEC U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice John Roberts · Shaun McCutcheon · Republican National Committee · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2013-06-25 | ALEC States Immediately Implement Voter Restrictions After Shelby County Decision Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott · North Carolina Legislature · American Legislative Exchange Council · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 2013-06-01 | Justice O'Connor Expresses Regret Over Bush v. Gore Damage to Court Reputation Sandra Day O'Connor · U.S. Supreme Court · Bush v. Gore majority | confirmed | |
| 2012-06-28 | Supreme Court Makes ACA Medicaid Expansion Optional, Enabling State Obstruction U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice John Roberts · National Federation of Independent Business · Republican Governors · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2010-01-21 | Supreme Court Citizens United Decision Unleashes Unlimited Corporate Spending U.S. Supreme Court · Citizens United · Federal Election Commission · Justice Anthony Kennedy · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2008-04-28 | Crawford v. Marion County: Supreme Court Upholds Strict Voter ID Laws Despite No Evidence of In-Person Fraud U.S. Supreme Court · John Paul Stevens · Indiana Legislature · American Civil Liberties Union · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2006-05-15 | eBay v. MercExchange: Supreme Court Limits Automatic Patent Injunctions, Enabling Patent Troll Business Model to Flourish U.S. Supreme Court · Clarence Thomas · Anthony Kennedy · eBay · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2004-11-02 | Massey Energy CEO Spends $3 Million to Elect Judge in Case Against His Company Don Blankenship · Brent Benjamin · Hugh Caperton · Massey Energy Company · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2004-06-24 | Supreme Court Protects Cheney Energy Task Force Secrecy Dick Cheney · U.S. Supreme Court · Anthony Kennedy · Antonin Scalia · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2001-01-29 | Bush Administration Establishes Faith-Based Initiative Infrastructure for Systematic Constitutional Transformation George W. Bush · Pat Robertson · Faith-Based Organizations · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 1989-03-24 | Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Triggers Corporate Campaign to Limit Pollution Liability Exxon Corporation · American Petroleum Institute · U.S. Supreme Court · Alaska Native communities · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1988-06-29 | Beck Decision Enables Workers to Withhold Union Dues for Political Activity, Weakening Labor Resources U.S. Supreme Court · Communications Workers of America · Harry Beck · National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation | confirmed | |
| 1988-06-29 | Morrison v. Olson: Scalia's Lone Dissent Articulates Unitary-Executive Theory That Becomes Movement Doctrine U.S. Supreme Court · William Rehnquist · Antonin Scalia · Theodore Olson · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1983-06-23 | INS v. Chadha: Supreme Court Invalidates Legislative Veto in 200+ Statutes, Structural Shift Toward Executive Power U.S. Supreme Court · Warren Burger · Byron White · William Rehnquist · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1979-01-01 | Supreme Court Adopts Bork's "Consumer Welfare Standard," Transforming Antitrust Law U.S. Supreme Court · Robert Bork | confirmed | |
| 1977-06-23 | Supreme Court Decides GTE Sylvania, First Major Chicago School Antitrust Victory U.S. Supreme Court · Aaron Director · Chicago School of Economics | confirmed | |
| 1976-04-20 | Supreme Court Allows Metropolitan-Wide Housing Desegregation Remedy U.S. Supreme Court · Justice Potter Stewart · U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development · Chicago Housing Authority · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1976-01-30 | Supreme Court Rules Money Is Speech in Buckley v. Valeo U.S. Supreme Court · Lewis F. Powell Jr. · James Buckley · Eugene McCarthy · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1974-07-25 | Milliken v. Bradley - Supreme Court Blocks Cross-District School Desegregation, Entrenches White Flight Chief Justice Warren Burger · Justice Thurgood Marshall · U.S. Supreme Court · NAACP Legal Defense Fund · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1974-07-24 | Supreme Court Rules 8-0 in United States v. Nixon: President Must Surrender Tapes U.S. Supreme Court · Warren Burger · Richard Nixon · Leon Jaworski · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1974-06-01 | Nixon Executive-Privilege Theory (1973-74) Establishes Doctrinal Infrastructure Cited by Every Subsequent Presidency Richard Nixon · Archibald Cox · Leon Jaworski · John Dean · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1973-03-21 | San Antonio v. Rodriguez - Supreme Court Upholds Property Tax School Funding, Entrenches Inequality Justice Lewis Powell · Justice Thurgood Marshall · Demetrio Rodriguez · Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1973-01-22 | Supreme Court Decides Roe v. Wade, Triggering Conservative Backlash and Mobilization U.S. Supreme Court · Nellie Gray | confirmed | |
| 1972-01-07 | Lewis Powell Sworn in as Supreme Court Justice, Begins Implementing Corporate Blueprint Lewis F. Powell Jr. · Richard Nixon · U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Senate | confirmed | |
| 1971-10-22 | Nixon Nominates Lewis Powell to Supreme Court Two Months After Corporate Blueprint Memo Richard Nixon · Lewis F. Powell Jr. · John Mitchell · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1971-06-30 | Supreme Court Rules 6-3 for Press Freedom in Pentagon Papers Case - Rejects Nixon Administration Prior Restraint Attempt U.S. Supreme Court · New York Times · Washington Post · Daniel Ellsberg · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1968-06-17 | Supreme Court Rules 1866 Civil Rights Act Bans Private Housing Discrimination U.S. Supreme Court · Joseph Lee Jones · Alfred H. Mayer Company | confirmed | |
| 1966-06-13 | Miranda v. Arizona Decision Requiring Rights Warnings Sparks Law Enforcement Backlash and Conservative Law-and-Order Politics U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice Earl Warren · Richard Nixon · Law enforcement organizations | confirmed | |
| 1957-06-17 | Yates v. United States Limits Smith Act Prosecutions, Supreme Court Begins Retreat from McCarthyism Earl Warren · U.S. Supreme Court · Oleta O'Connor Yates · Communist Party USA · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1956-11-13 | Supreme Court Affirms Montgomery Bus Segregation Unconstitutional, Boycott Ends in Victory Martin Luther King Jr. · Rosa Parks · E.D. Nixon · Jo Ann Robinson · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1955-05-31 | Brown II Orders Desegregation with "All Deliberate Speed," Enabling Decade of Resistance Earl Warren · U.S. Supreme Court · NAACP Legal Defense Fund · Thurgood Marshall · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1954-05-17 | Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court Decision Declares School Segregation Unconstitutional Earl Warren · Thurgood Marshall · NAACP Legal Defense Fund · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed |
Network neighbors
Donald Trump
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Trump Administration
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Chief Justice John Roberts
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Department of Justice
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John Roberts
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Ketanji Brown Jackson
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NAACP Legal Defense Fund
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Brett Kavanaugh
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American Civil Liberties Union
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Federalist Society
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Justice Samuel Alito
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Sonia Sotomayor
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Clarence Thomas
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D. John Sauer
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Federal Trade Commission
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Justice Clarence Thomas
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor
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Leonard Leo
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Neil Gorsuch
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Rebecca Slaughter
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Richard Nixon
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Samuel Alito
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William Howard Taft
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George Sutherland
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