Immigrants ask Supreme Court to leave ruling in place preventing Trump administration from deporting them to third-party countries

Lawyers for immigrants whom the Trump administration is seeking to deport urged the Supreme Court on Monday to leave in place a ruling by a federal judge in Massachusetts that bars the government from sending them to countries that are not identified in their removal orders – a procedure known […]

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The court’s summer recess that wasn’t

In the headline for my July 6 story revisiting the major interim docket matters that kept the justices busy during last year’s summer recess, I posed a question about the months ahead. “This year,” I asked, “will they actually get a break?” Nearly three months later, we know the answer: […]

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The long conference

So long, summer recess. Today’s “long conference” – the subject of this morning’s Closer Look – marks the unofficial start of the 2026-27 term. (The official start is the first day of oral arguments on Oct. 5.) At the Court On Friday, the Supreme Court cleared the way for the […]

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The High Court of Australia

Welcome to SCOTUSblog’s recurring series in which we interview experts on different supreme courts around the world and how they compare with our own. Today’s column focuses on the High Court of Australia. To help me understand this institution, I corresponded with professor Cheryl Saunders of Melbourne Law School. When […]

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Key takeaways from an active week at the court

[Newsletter ad — view on SCOTUSblog] This week may have fallen within the Supreme Court’s summer recess, but it wasn’t exactly restful for the justices – or for the team behind this newsletter. There was a flurry of activity in the ongoing battle over Missouri redistricting, which, on Tuesday, made […]

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