Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean ...

Returning from its winter recess, the Supreme Court on Monday added just one new case to its oral argument docket. In a list of orders from the justices’ private conference […] ...

Happy Monday! Although we here at SCOTUSblog are still recovering from a busy Friday analyzing the tariffs ruling, we have to turn our attention to the February argument session. It […] ...

Updated on Feb. 20 at 4:21 p.m. In a major ruling on presidential power, the Supreme Court on Friday struck down the sweeping ...

Empirical SCOTUS is a recurring series by Adam Feldman that looks at Supreme Court data, primarily in the form of opinions and oral arguments, to provide insights into the justices’ decision making ...

Updated on Feb. 19 at 9:50 a.m. President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 on this day in 1942, authorizing ...

ScotusCrim is a recurring series by Rory Little focusing on intersections between the Supreme Court and criminal law. Today’s ...

In their petitions for review, litigants spell out – in detail – why the Supreme Court should take up their case. These ...

Justice Anthony Kennedy joined the court on this day in 1988. He served for slightly more than 30 years, retiring on July 31, ...

As many law students learn in their civil procedure course, when a plaintiff files suit in state court asserting a claim over ...

For decades, the U.S. solicitor general’s most familiar role at the certiorari stage has been reactive rather than proactive: ...

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