Common sense” reasoning is becoming more common at the Supreme Court. The justices have explicitly relied on common sense to ...

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The Supreme Court on Thursday threw out a Mississippi man’s conviction and death sentence. By a vote of 5-4, the court in ...

Good morning, and welcome to what’s expected to be another opinion day at the Supreme Court. We will be live blogging ...

Justice Amy Coney Barrett was the target of a “swatting” incident – a false call reporting gunshots intended to provoke a ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday morning reversed a ruling by a federal appeals court that had revived a dispute over a policy ...

We will be live blogging as the court potentially releases opinions in one or more argued cases from the current term.

Over the years, the Supreme Court has sent mixed signals about whether its emergency docket orders carry precedential weight. In 2021, Justice Samuel Alito said publicly that emergency orders are not ...

On Thursday, the court released its opinions in Fernandez v. United States, Rutherford v. United States, Pitchford v. Cain, ...

The U.S. Supreme Court (unlike some) does not divide its docket between civil and criminal cases. So I do. With about five ...

Callais suggests the court stopped short of finding Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (which prohibits racial discrimination ...

Just over two weeks after the Supreme Court cleared the way for Alabama to use a congressional map that a lower court had ...