Amy Howe

Blogger & Legal Analyst, SCOTUSblog · 1 appearance on the record.

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Amy Howe is a legal blogger and commentator. She is known for analyzing Supreme Court rulings and precedents, including discussions around the draft overturning Roe v. Wade.

2statements → 2claims → 2claims resolved → 4/5average certainty → 2.5/5average debate potential → ≈4.0/5argument clarity, estimated →

2 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted how the 2 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 assertions · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Amy argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Howe: Alito draft states stare decisis is weakest in constitutional interpretation cases
“One of the things he talks about when he's outlining the principle of stare decisis, he says that this principle is actually at its weakest in cases like this one involving the interpretation of the Constitution, because only the Supreme Court gets to say what…”
Amy Howe May 7, 2022 ▶ 21:56 E79: Analyzing the leaked draft overturning Roe v. Wade with Amy Howe and Tom Goldstein

How they sound: speaking style how? →

217 words/min while actually speaking · 5.3 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Amy Howe: only 4 usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews. Their coarse estimate from 4 raw tape exchanges is ≈4.0/5, shown at half point precision because the sample is small.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 3,187 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

Everything Amy Howe said on All-In that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Supported
Howe: Alito draft states stare decisis is weakest in constitutional interpretation cases
“One of the things he talks about when he's outlining the principle of stare decisis, he says that this principle is actually at its weakest in cases like this one involving the interpretation of the Constitution, because only the Supreme Court gets to say what…”
Amy Howe May 7, 2022 ▶ 21:56 E79: Analyzing the leaked draft overturning Roe v. Wade with Amy Howe and Tom Goldstein
Assertion Supported
Howe: At least a dozen states have abortion trigger laws
“There are already, you know, At least a dozen, if not more states that have what's called trigger laws that have already been passed by the state legislature with an eye towards This decision or some other decision by the Supreme Court over ruling Rowan Casey.”
Amy Howe May 7, 2022 ▶ 15:24 E79: Analyzing the leaked draft overturning Roe v. Wade with Amy Howe and Tom Goldstein

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
E79: Analyzing the leaked draft overturning Roe v. Wade with Amy Howe and Tom Goldstein May 7, 2022 18m
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