Justice Kagan says court gets a “bad rap”

In case you missed it, actor Matt Damon recently shared his memories of taking an acting class with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson when they were both students at Harvard, noting that he bragged to his kids about doing a scene with her when she was nominated to the Supreme Court. […]

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Trump’s petition for reconsideration of $5 million verdict in E. Jean Carroll case may be considered by the justices in August

Three days after the Supreme Court issued its first set of summer orders, President Donald Trump’s request for the Supreme Court to reconsider its decision to leave in place the 2023 verdict against him in a civil suit brought by E. Jean Carroll has been distributed to the justices. This […]

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Nine justices, nine styles

Please note that SCOTUS Outside Opinions constitute the views of outside contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SCOTUSblog or its staff. By my count, the 58 oral arguments of October Term 2025 resulted in 5,095 questions from the justices. What kind of questions did they ask? Are there patterns […]

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Democrats push Supreme Court term limits

Today is retired Justice Anthony Kennedy’s 90th birthday. Kennedy joined the Supreme Court in 1988 and retired in 2018. Morning Reads Senator Whitehouse aims to keep Supreme Court ethics conversation alive with term limits bill Benjamin S. Weiss, Courthouse News Service In an interview with Courthouse News Service, Sen. Sheldon […]

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The case for Callais

This publication has been inundated with essays by academics critical of Louisiana v. Callais, but has not published a single one in defense of it. So I decided to take it on in my column. After all, I am pretty sure Justice Antonin Scalia would have approved of the decision. […]

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Judicial ethics in the spotlight

As of this morning, the court has 25 cases scheduled for oral argument in the 2026-27 term. That’s behind where it was at this point last year (31 cases) and in 2024 (27) but ahead of the term before that (21). At the Court In case you missed it, the […]

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The live blog comments that stuck with us

One of SCOTUSblog’s most popular features is our live blogging during major oral arguments and opinion hand down days. Throughout these live chats, our moderators (led by Amy) not only provide what’s happening at the court in real time, but we also feature plenty of comments and questions by readers […]

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The history the court would rather not see

In 2021’s New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, the Supreme Court held that modern gun laws must be “consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation” to survive a Second Amendment challenge. Under that newly announced history-and-tradition test, defenders of gun laws must point to historical […]

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The ripple effects of the TPS ruling

Do you have a young Supreme Court nerd in your life? After pointing them to children’s books by the current justices, consider checking out A Supreme Friendship, a new book on Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia and the importance of “not letting strong differences get in the way […]

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