The president finds the long-settled meaning of the citizenship clause to be an intolerable obstacle to his agenda. The reason? Each year it would make U.S. citizens of tens of […] ...

Yesterday brought the justices another of the term’s cases about the federal statute forcing the enforcement of arbitration agreements. The issue in this one – Flowers Foods, Inc. v. Brock […] ...

Yesterday’s unanimous decision in Cox Communications v. Sony Entertainment surprised no one who observed the argument, which had suggested a bench deeply skeptical of a billion-plus dollar judgment ...

Do you like piña coladas? What about getting caught in the rain? We here at SCOTUSblog liked discovering this week that ...

Attorney Pete Patterson’s latest post on birthright citizenship repeats the biggest mistakes of his original post and also makes some new mistakes, chasing irrelevances and mangling the key legal ...

The Supreme Court will hear oral argument on Monday in Abouammo v. United States, in which it will consider whether federal prosecutors can try a defendant not only in the […] ...

Next week’s argument in Jules v Andre Balazs Properties considers a technical question about the jurisdiction of federal courts to enforce an arbitration award. It is the immediate successor of […] ...

The text is the law, and it is the text that must be observed,” Justice Antonin Scalia famously insisted at page 22 of a ...

Yesterday’s argument in Keathley v. Buddy Ayers Construction displayed a bench almost uniformly skeptical of a lower court’s absolute standard for responding to the failure of a debtor in bankruptcy ...

Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean for the law, for lawyers and lower courts, and for people’s lives. […] ...

It’s going to be another busy day at the Supreme Court, and it’s expected to start with opinion announcements.

Professors Akhil and Vikram Amar have responded to my recent post arguing that the 14th Amendment does not grant automatic citizenship to the children of temporary visitors to the United […] ...