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Biden, Bennet, And Bipartisan Federal Judicial Selection, Carl Tobias
Biden, Bennet, And Bipartisan Federal Judicial Selection, Carl Tobias
University of Colorado Law Review Forum
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How To (Not) Do Things With Judicial Opinions: Minding The Performative Power Of Facts And Dicta, Mb Beasley
How To (Not) Do Things With Judicial Opinions: Minding The Performative Power Of Facts And Dicta, Mb Beasley
University of Colorado Law Review
"Three generations of imbeciles are enough."l These words of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes are some of the most infamous and evocative penned from behind the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States. Beyond the feelings of revulsion reading the opinion causes, the facts that Justice Holmes declared to be true and the dicta he used to bolster the Court's holding in Buck v. Bell helped to create the social world we live in today and continue to affect it. Though previous scholarship has recognized the importance of acknowledging the performative power of words in the legal field, little …