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Wait: Was SCOTUS Awesome All Along? (talkingpointsmemo.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Can_Utility to c/politics

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A short but cogent analysis of the unexpectedly not-terrible SCOTUS emerging at the tail end of this term. Josh Marshall is a smart observer of government, and he makes an interesting argument that I think has some real value.

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[–] Can_Utility 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe the fault was mine, for including a piece from the Editor's Blog (which is a bit more informal than most of TPM's reporting and assumes familiarity with their other work).

I forget who originally said that whenever you see a headline with a question mark (colloquially referred to as the Cavuto Mark, after Fox's Neil Cavuto, perhaps the most prominent practitioner), the answer is almost always 'no,' but it's been such a piece of conventional wisdom that I didn't realize it was more widely understood as such.