jurisprudence
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Sotomayor has long been an advocate for criminal defendants in her jurisprudence, and for her part, Jackson’s thesis in undergrad even covered coercive plea bargaining.
From Slate • Jun. 18, 2026
Academics may think what they wish of Congress; this court’s jurisprudence ought not be grounded in such contempt.”
From Slate • Jun. 11, 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
Vocabulary lists containing jurisprudence
You Be the Judge: Jud, Jur, Jus
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100 SAT Words Beginning with "J," "K," and "L"
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Lincoln Inaugural Address (March 1861)
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