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In an interview with Justice Breyer in the Daily Journal, Lawrence Hurley asked Justice Breyer about FantasySCOTUS.net.

DJ: Just one other thing – it goes to the visibility of the court – just the other day a recent law graduate  launched a Supreme Court fantasy league Web site [www.fantasyscotus.net]. People can go case by case and predict the outcome and there’s a prize at the end of the term.

Breyer: I don’t think I will bet on it.

DJ: I don’t think you’d be allowed to. I thought it does show there is that kind of public interest in the court we were talking about.

Breyer: I’m glad the public is interested. The more the public knows about the court, the better.

Straight from Justice Beyer. This is too cool. Is this *kinda* a citation from the Supreme Court?

Just because Justice Breyer won’t bet on it, shouldn’t stop yout. Sign up today!

Thanks to @LawrenceHurley for the tip.

And, for those interested,

Here are some of our press clippings:

-Ashby Jones from the Wall Street Journal Law Blog did an inteview with me about FantasySCOTUS.net.

-David Post on the Volokh Conspiracy thought the site “looks like fun.”

-SCOTUSBlog also took note in their daily roundup.

-AboutTheLaw featured our site in the Non-Sequitur of the day. Stay tuned to our weekly column, titled Predictions of the 10th Justice.

-FantasySCOTUS made Holiday Wish List at Underneath Their Robes. Clerquette writes ” If you’re a betting man, woman, or Groupie, Clerquette says: Christmas has come early this year! Indulge! If you’re searching for a gift that will keep on giving — at least from October to late June/early July — look no further! FantasySCOTUS.net will keep your favorite groupie busy, away from productive activity, and unable to engage in telephone conversations while formulating bets for months to come. Hey: at least there’s no draft. ”

-Law.com Legal Blog Watch called FantasySCOTUS the “new gold standard in Supreme Court geekery”

-Eric Muller at the Faculty Lounge called FantasySCOTUS “a very, very clever idea!”

-Bill Araiza at PrawfsBlawg writes that FantasySCOTUS “sounds like fun for a rainy year.”

-Derrick Eckhardt at Fantasy Ethos writes “This game may actually take off as a niche fantasy game for law schools as a way of teaching constitutional law and understanding the dynamics of the Supreme Court.”

In this JoshVlog, I interview Atlas in Rockefeller Center, New York, the god who holds the world on his shoulders. I ask him about the burden and why he continues to try so hard, with no reward. In conclusion, I ask, who is John Galt? His answer is very instructive.

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I want to wish everyone a happy, healthy, and blessed Thanksgiving. I will be with family in New York this weekend, so blogging will be at a minimal level. I leave you with President Washington’s First Thanksgiving Proclamation from 1789.

WHEREAS it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favour; and Whereas both Houfes of Congress have, by their joint committee, requefted me “to recommend to the people of the United States a DAY OF PUBLICK THANSGIVING and PRAYER, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to eftablifh a form of government for their safety and happiness:”

NOW THEREFORE, I do recommend and affign THURSDAY, the TWENTY-SIXTH DAY of NOVEMBER next, to be devoted by the people of thefe States to the fervice of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our fincere and humble thanksfor His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the fignal and manifold mercies and the favorable interpofitions of His providence in the courfe and conclufion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty which we have fince enjoyed;– for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enable to eftablish Conftitutions of government for our fafety and happinefs, and particularly the national one now lately instituted;– for the civil and religious liberty with which we are bleffed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffufing useful knowledge;– and, in general, for all the great and various favours which He has been pleafed to confer upon us.

And also, that we may then unite in moft humbly offering our prayers and fupplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and befeech Him to pardon our national and other tranfgreffions;– to enable us all, whether in publick or private ftations, to perform our feveral and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our National Government a bleffing to all the people by conftantly being a Government of wife, juft, and conftitutional laws, difcreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all fovereigns and nations (especially fuch as have shewn kindnefs unto us); and to blefs them with good governments, peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increafe of fcience among them and us; and, generally to grant unto all mankind fuch a degree of temporal profperity as he alone knows to be beft.

GIVEN under my hand, at the city of New-York, the third day of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand feven hundred and eighty-nine.

(signed) G. Washington

At Volokh, Professor Elwood queries why the Supreme Court has not handed down any opinions yet. Historically, opinions have been issued by Thanksgiving. Professor Elwood predicts that “things should get clearer  next week.”

I am eagerly awaiting the first opinion of the term, especially Citizens United (Hillary Movie Case). Check out the 10th Justice’s Predictions for that case. If you haven’t predicted Citizens United, or other argued cases, do so soon. Once the case is decided, obviously, you can no longer predict that case, and you lose out on points!

For those of you interested, here is the breakdown of hand-down dates over the last two decades:

OT08 11/12 Roberts
OT07 12/4 Roberts
OT06 11/13 Kennedy (Ayers v. Belmontes)
OT05 11/8 Stevens, Breyer
OT04 11/9 Rehnquist, O’Connor
OT03 11/12 Scalia
OT02 11/5 Rehnquist, O’Connor
OT01 11/13 O’Connor, Ginsburg
OT00 11/7 Scalia, Ginsburg
OT99 11/30 Breyer
OT98 11/3 O’Connor
OT97 11/4 O’Connor, Ginsburg
OT96 11/6 O’Connor
OT95 10/31 Scalia, Kennedy
OT94 11/1 O’Connor
OT93 11/9 O’Connor (two opinions)
OT92 11/16 Stevens
OT91 11/5 O’Connor
OT90 11/6 O’Connor
OT89 11/7 Marshall; O’Connor

Check out Professor Solum’s Legal Theory Blog. This morning, he featured our article, Opening Pandora’s Box? Privileges or Immunities, The Constitution in 2020, and Properly Incorporating the Second Amendment. Cool.