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Welcome to Supreme Court Brief. Scroll down for our reporting on the Facebook TCPA case, and why Chief Justice Roberts was fired up at argument in an international relations dispute. Thanks for reading!
December 08, 2020 at 07:00 AM
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Good morning and welcome to Supreme Court Brief. The justices have a statutory interpretation puzzle before them in the first argument of the day. We take a look at two competing amicus briefs in the facebook challenge. The chief justice had the government on the hot seat yesterday in a Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act argument. And a reminder that the election is not quite over yet at the Supreme Court.
Thanks for reading, and your feedback is welcome and appreciated. Contact Marcia Coyle at [email protected] and follow her on Twitter @MarciaCoyle.
'Robocalls Are the Flood Water; the TCPA Is the Levee'
The Supreme Court this morning faces a classic and tricky case of statutory interpretation that is certain to engage the justices who self-describe as committed "textualists" versus the justices who cast firm eyes on congressional intent.
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