Trump v. Barbara · ¶430

The existence of these two big carveouts refutes any argument that the British rule was transplanted without modification to American soil. Accord, ante, at 62–63 (THOMAS, J., dissenting). And any attempt to plant some version of that rule here also faced the problem of applying it to a Nation that, unlike Britain, had a written Constitution and a federal system.

slip opinion, revised 7/01/26
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