March 6, 2010


I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description [“hard-core pornography”]; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that.

Justice Potter Stewart, concurring opinion in Jacobellis v. Ohio 378 U.S. 184 (1964), regarding possible obscenity in The Lovers

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January 26, 2012


What do I have stuck in my head right now?

That stupid quote about FDR and Justice Roberts - “the switch in time that saved the Nine”.

SCOTUS, get out of my head. alkdjflkaf law school angst. 

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