concurrence

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“Under this Court’s precedents, not to mention common sense, those circumstances taken together can constitute at least reasonable suspicion of illegal presence,” he said in a concurrence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

But she also wrote her own concurrence, which elevated legislative history far beyond what Kagan seemed comfortable with.

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

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

And they did: “My friends inform me that Mr. A. speaks of me with great friendship,” Jefferson observed, “and with satisfaction in the prospect of administering the government in concurrence with me.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis