The battle over birthright citizenship is a battle over its exceptions. The 14th Amendment’s first sentence proudly proclaims ...

Ratio Decidendi is a recurring series by Stephanie Barclay exploring the reasoning – from practical considerations to deep ...

Justice Clarence Thomas’ virtual appearance last week at a legal conference in Washington, D.C. brought renewed attention to court security. Thomas had originally planned to attend in person,  but he ...

Updated on March 6 at 10:50 a.m. The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard argument in Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II, LLC, a ...

A group of Syrian nationals urged the Supreme Court on Thursday to leave in place a ruling by a federal judge in New York ...

On this day in 1857, the Supreme Court released its opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford, holding that Scott, an enslaved man who spent time in free territory, was not […] ...

The problem is the trial court decision in Malliotakis is not a “final judgment or decree rendered by the highest Court of a State in which a decision could be had.” The highest court would be the New ...

We may not know yet how the many tariff refund disputes will be untangled, but we learned Wednesday that the Trump ...

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 ...

The Supreme Court unanimously sided with the federal government on Wednesday in Urias-Orellana v. Bondi, holding in an opinion by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson that federal courts of appeals must […] ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled in Galette v. New Jersey Transit Corporation that two men who were seriously injured in New York and Pennsylvania by buses operated by New […] ...

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