concurrence

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Throughout the tense exchange in Justice Samuel Alito’s concurrence and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent, they spar over when the clock of the rule of law should start and stop.

From Slate • May 5, 2026

Hall in 1994, an otherwise routine vote-dilution case, Justice Thomas took the opportunity to write a concurrence that dissected the Court’s Thornburg v.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

Kagan, joined by Sotomayor, wrote a brief concurrence arguing that this distinction was not academic, because content-based speech restrictions are not subject to quite as “rigorous” review.

From Slate • Mar. 31, 2026

And while it didn’t exactly fly off the shelves, its concurrence with the height of the Seattle grunge music scene made the disheveled aesthetic a street-style must-have.

From Salon • Mar. 27, 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