concurrence

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In a concurrence, Kagan—a longtime critic of the doctrine—wrote that it was unnecessary here, because the issue could be resolved by looking to the words of the statute alone.

From Slate • Mar. 4, 2026

But Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in concurrence, joined by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, that such penalties “are fines by any other name. And the Constitution has something to say about them: They cannot be excessive.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

And in her separate concurrence, Justice Elena Kagan—joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson—says she still doesn’t agree with the major questions doctrine.

From Slate • Feb. 20, 2026

Kavanaugh seemed to quietly walk back this language in a footnote of a Dec. 23 concurrence blocking President Trump from deploying the National Guard in Illinois.

From Salon • Feb. 12, 2026

In late-sixteenth-century French concurrence still means ‘coming together’ and not yet ‘competing’; in early-seventeenth-century Italian concorrente is only beginning to take on its modern meaning.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton