Our SCOTUStoday subscribers are certainly court watchers. But are you also court forecasters? Yesterday, we announced a forecasting contest that we developed in collaboration with Good Judgment Inc. Enter to test your prediction skills against other readers and artificial intelligence models. Hungry for more information about the 2026-27 term? In […]

The Supreme Court on Wednesday night cleared the way for the execution of Christa Pike, the only woman on Tennessee’s death row. In a brief, unsigned order, the court lifted a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit that had paused Pike’s execution shortly before it […]

On Dec. 1, the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral argument in Jouppi v. Alaska, a case stemming from the seizure of an airplane valued at $95,000 as punishment for the misdemeanor offense of transporting a small quantity of beer to a “dry village.” Expected to be “one of […]

On Monday, in Johnson v. United States Congress, the Supreme Court will revisit a 52-year-old ruling on judicial review of veterans’ benefits decisions as it considers whether a federal district court may hear a constitutional challenge to a law limiting disability benefits for certain incarcerated veterans. The case involves Floyd […]

Justice Benjamin R. Curtis resigned from the Supreme Court on this day in 1857. He is perhaps best known for leaking his dissenting opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford before the ruling was handed down, enabling at least one newspaper to predict – and then report on – the decision […]

Many SCOTUSblog readers have strong opinions on not only how the Supreme Court should decide particular cases, but how it will decide such cases. Indeed, we’ve received plenty of emails over the years stating, with absolute confidence, how the most important issues before the court will be resolved. Sometimes this […]

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in December in a challenge by immigrants to the government’s practice of deporting them to countries that are not identified in their removal orders – a procedure known as “third-country removals.” In a brief, unsigned order on Tuesday afternoon, the justices cleared the […]

On Sept. 18, over 2,000 people gathered around the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. – and held hands. Former employees, performing legends, long-time D.C. residents, and regular people from all across the country, physically standing around the building – to protect it from demolition. They couldn’t get all the way […]

This series for SCOTUSblog will recount two decades of constitutional change through the five editions of our casebook, the first published in 2008 and the latest to be published this December. Lawyers tend to internalize the constitutional law that existed when they attended law school. Consider a lawyer who took […]

Today marks 21 years since Chief Justice John Roberts was sworn in. At the Court On Monday, the Supreme Court announced that Justice Samuel Alito will not continue to participate in Suncor Energy Inc. v. County Commissioners of Boulder County, a significant climate change case that will be argued next […]