Rights and Responsibilities is a recurring series by Richard Garnett on legal education, the role of the courts in our constitutional structure, and the law of religious freedom and free expression. It is still (very) early in the Supreme Court’s new term, and its calendar is far from full. The justices […]

Justice Clarence Thomas was confirmed to the court 34 years ago today. Not only is Thomas the longest serving current justice, he is less than three years away from becoming the longest serving justice of all time. Morning Reads Former Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer Applauds Legal Pragmatism at HLS […]

The Supreme Court on Tuesday morning turned down a plea from conservative media personality Alex Jones to hear his appeal of a Connecticut case brought by families of the children killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School more than a decade ago, in which he was found liable for defamation and […]

Justice, Democracy, and Law is a recurring series by Edward B. Foley that focuses on election law and the relationship of law and democracy. Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s new book, Listening to the Law, is an excellent read. I’ve strongly recommended it to my students and agree with Will Baude […]

Happy publication day to former Justice Anthony Kennedy, whose memoir, “Life, Law & Liberty,” is now in stores. Morning Reads New England courts become a battleground for challenges to Trump (Nate Raymond, Reuters) — Since President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January, “Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire […]

Retired Justice Anthony Kennedy’s memoir, Life, Law and Liberty, comes out today, Oct. 14. Within the next few weeks, SCOTUSblog will publish a review of the book. To whet readers’ appetites, however, below are several interesting passages from it (or, at least, passages that I found to be interesting), including […]

Last week, conservative media personality Alex Jones filed an emergency appeal with the Supreme Court, asking the justices to pause a lower-court judgment that would require him to pay more than $1.4 billion for making false claims about the 2012 school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. […]

Cases and Controversies is a recurring series by Carolyn Shapiro, primarily focusing on the effects of the Supreme Court’s rulings, opinions, and procedures on the law, on other institutions, and on our constitutional democracy more generally. A lot of attention has (appropriately) focused on the Supreme Court’s virtual reversal of Humphrey’s […]

Former President Herbert Hoover laid the cornerstone of the Supreme Court Building 93 years ago, on Oct. 13, 1932. Former Justice Anthony Kennedy recently wrote for The New York Times about his research into the building, including the source of the phrase “Equal justice under law,” which is engraved over […]

The Supreme Court on Friday afternoon added another case to its oral argument docket for the 2025-26 term. The justices agreed to take up the case of Munson Hunter, a Texas man who pleaded guilty in 2024 to aiding and abetting wire fraud. The court will weigh in on issues […]