Decades of conservative Supreme Court jurisprudence have made the law of racial equality just as concerned with burdens on whites as with those on minorities.
He cited the somewhat muddy Supreme Court jurisprudence in this area and an October decision of the Washington Supreme Court that struck down a state law making it illegal for politicians to lie about candidates for public office.
"Judge Gorsuch has repeatedly sided with corporations over working people, demonstrated a hostility toward women's rights, and most troubling, hewed to an ideological approach to jurisprudence that makes me skeptical that he can be a strong, independent justice on the court".
Even advocates who disagree with the Court's jurisprudence have tended to follow its lead by adopting the narrow corruption frame in making their case to the public.
Coke's jurisprudence centres on the hierarchy of the judges, the monarch, and Parliament in making law.
What you're now seeing, I think, is a conservative jurisprudence that oftentimes makes the same error".
The Court's A.E.D.P.A. jurisprudence is basically made up of decisions in which the Justices have increasingly narrowed the chances of review under the statute.
"It is one of the surest indexes of a mature and developed jurisprudence not to make a fortress out of the dictionary," Judge Hand wrote in a 1945 decision, "but to remember that statutes always have some purpose or object to accomplish, whose sympathetic and imaginative discovery is the surest guide to their meaning".
In a 1996 decision striking down a law that made it a crime to possess pornography, for instance, the Constitutional Court of South Africa conducted a broad survey of American First Amendment jurisprudence, citing some 40 decisions of the United States Supreme Court.
It's safe to say that the court's equal protection jurisprudence is currently in flux, heading in the direction of making 14th Amendment violations harder, not easier, to prove.
Knowing that he stood no chance of derailing either nominee, Sessions has spent his time trying to deconstruct the President's views on Supreme Court jurisprudence and, specifically, the role of empathy in judicial decision making.
