The Trump administration returned to the Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon, asking the justices to temporarily pause an order by a federal judge in Boston that blocks the government from ...

Four Democratic candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate on Thursday urged the justices to leave in place a ruling by a federal appeals court that limited the availability ...

It has been just under a month since President Donald Trump issued a new executive order seeking to narrow the availability of birthright citizenship, the current guarantee of citizenship to almost ...

In another interim docket dispute, a Michigan group urged the court to require Michigan election officials to put on the November ballot its proposal for requiring proof of citizenship to vote in the ...

The Constitution’s due process clause famously limits the government’s power to detain people. Next month the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments in a case about the clause’s relevance to ...

As the back-to-school spirit sweeps across the nation, education is likely on the minds of the Supreme Court justices ( especially those with kids still at home or in college). The court is preparing ...

As summer comes to a close, I thought SCOTUSblog readers might appreciate a brief escape from the day’s dreary headlines to something a bit different: the little-known physical transformation of ...

In another interim docket dispute, a Michigan group has urged the court to require Michigan election officials to put on the November ballot its proposal for requiring proof of citizenship to vote in ...

As Stephen Wermiel recently wrote for this blog, when Congress created the role of solicitor general in 1870, it required the occupant of the office to be “learned in the law.” Solicitors general have ...

On Monday, the Supreme Court, by a 5-4 vote, granted the Trump administration’s request to allow construction on the new White House ballroom to continue. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote a dissenting ...

This is the sixth piece in a series on what I believe the court can, and should, do better. *** On the Supreme Court, there are two primary numerical voting rules. Under the “Ru ...