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Block on Trump's Asylum Ban Upheld by Supreme Court
It's quittin' time in three hours around these parts, which means one thing: running the clock out like an NFL team with the lead. You don't want to think, do you? (If you do, check out our coverage from earlier this week -- it's fun and informative!)
Instead, let's have a little bit of fun with a roundup of some Supreme Court-related things we've stumbled upon across the Internet this week, including Jay Z v. Scalia, calculating your conservative credentials, and a peek at what's to come in the next two weeks:
That line, a personal favorite from Jay-Z's "Moment of Clarity," was part of the rapper's assertion that had he not cared about listeners' comprehension and selling records, that he could rap with the most skilled, and most verbose. Interestingly enough, in a recent study done by Matt Daniels, Jay-Z only narrowly lost to Kweli, with 4,506 words used in his first 35,000 lyrics, compared to Kweli's 4,703.
William Shakespeare would be at 5,170.
Slate, earlier this week, did something incredible: it ran the same test with Supreme Court justices, with these notable findings:
Of course, many would argue that having a big vocabulary isn't indicative of good writing, but simpler, more comprehensible writing is. How does one test that?Stay tuned folks: after the term ends, we're going to give it a shot.
You may not identify as a conservative, but if you were, which would you be? Kennedy, the swing vote who sides with the liberals? Scalia, who usually doesn't, but really cares about the Fourth Amendment? Or Alito, the diehard?
The Washington Examiner has a test to determine exactly that. Who did I get? None other than the verbose, yet lyrically limited, Justice Kennedy.
Over at The Wall Street Journal, Jess Bravin is celebrating the release of the "dogs," the snooze-worthy cases we made light of yesterday and earlier this term. The remaining seventeen cases are apparently much more fascinating, and he has his own list of cases to watch. Which ones did we miss in our own "what's left" post?
Check out his previews, our previews, and prepare yourself: these next two weeks are going to be fun.
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