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jurisprudence

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


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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

Indeed, so much has changed that the same chief justice who decried “Alabama’s attempt to remake our §2 jurisprudence anew” in Allen v.

From Slate May 5, 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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