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An Actual SCOTUS Nightmare

Recently, Justice Jackson warned about a "Kafkaesque nightmare" at the Supreme Court. Well, I had my own.

Josh Blackman | 8.30.2026 1:11 PM

A common recurring nightmare is showing up for school as a student and being unprepared. I've often had a variant of that dream where I show up for the first day of class as a professor, and was unprepared to teach. In one dream I had years ago, I had to fake my way through teaching Pierson v. Post.

Last night I had a new variant of that dream, which was an actual Supreme Court........

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