Scotus

¹

[ skoh-tuhs ]

noun

1. John Duns. Duns Scotus, John.

SCOTUS

²

[ skoh-tuhs ]

noun

1. Supreme Court of the United States.

Scotus

/ ˈskəʊtəs /

noun

1. See Duns Scotus

Example Sentences

Strangio, the first openly transgender person to argue at SCOTUS, had to explain to Kavanaugh that people sometimes regret getting treatments “in all areas of medicine,” not just with respect to gender-related care.

From Slate

In the modern era, it has had flaws introduced by SCOTUS, like the gutting of the Voting Rights Act, the unleashing of a tidal wave of big money into our politics, the myriad ways that, if we were to design a sort of platonic democracy, we would not include.

From Slate

We don’t even consume media the same way we did more recently, when the Fairness Doctrine was embraced by SCOTUS.

From Salon

There’s another possibility for SCOTUS’ decision: The majority may have felt the lower courts’ decisions violated the Purcell principle.

From Slate

Listen to the end of the show to find out what links this 76-year-old grandmother from Maine to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and SCOTUS’s landmark decision to legalize equal marriage in Obergefell in 2015.

From Slate