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jurisprudence

[joor-is-prood-ns, joor-is-prood-] / ˌdʒʊər ɪsˈprud ns, ˈdʒʊər ɪsˌprud- /


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The very history he so powerfully invokes to explain the 14th Amendment’s origins often becomes, in his jurisprudence, a reason to limit rather than enlarge its reach.

From Slate Jul. 2, 2026

Whether it chooses to do so will reveal as much about our immigration politics as this opinion reveals about our jurisprudence.

From Slate Jun. 26, 2026

The Court majority’s jurisprudence resembles the line in Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking Glass”: “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”

From Salon May 18, 2026

Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion gives a detailed history of Section 2 and a tour of the Court’s messy racial gerrymander jurisprudence.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 29, 2026

An influential nineteenth-century manual on medical jurisprudence cited the saying “A medical man, when he sees a dead body, should notice everything.”

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann




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