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 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 ...

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 ...

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 Friday, U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman in Maryland “declined to immediately block U.S. President Donald Trump’s newest executive order limiting the number of people e ...

The Supreme Court on Monday granted the Trump administration’s request to allow construction on a new White House ballroom to continue. By a vote of 5-4, the court paused a ruling by a federal judge ...

During his time on the Supreme Court, Powell was considered a moderate, leaning “to the right on some key issues and to the left on others.” CNN recently described him as one of a series of justices ...

Two Republican groups on Monday asked the Supreme Court to temporarily pause a ruling by a federal appeals court that, they told the justices, “rewrote longstanding rules about preferential broadcast ...

This is the third of seven introductory articles on the relevance for constitutional law of the “born free and equal” clauses, which appeared in the Declaration of Independence and in six out of 12 ...