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 […]

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 […]

The October 2025 Supreme Court Term was a good one for the Second Amendment. In United States v. Hemani, the court held by a 9-0 vote that it violates the Second Amendment to disarm a person solely because of occasional marijuana use. And in Wolford v. Lopez, the court refused […]

The Supreme Court on Monday morning added a new case to its oral argument docket for the 2026-27 term. As part of a regularly scheduled summer order list, the justices agreed to review Jouppi v. Alaska, an Alaskan bush pilot’s challenge to the forfeiture of his $95,000 airplane – which […]

Everything’s bigger in Texas – even the number of people who brought a case that was ultimately argued before the Supreme Court during the 2025-26 term. A SCOTUSblog analysis of the 35 argued cases with a single person (who was not a government official sued in their professional capacity) or […]

On this day in 1990, Justice William Brennan retired from the Supreme Court after nearly 34 years of service. He is among the longest-serving and most influential justices in the history of the court. At the Court This morning at 9:30 a.m. EDT, the court will release the first of […]

Johnny Brown, the father of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, died on Wednesday, according to an obituary published in the Miami Herald on Friday afternoon. He was 80 years old. Jackson appeared on Tuesday night in a conversation at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Alaska Public Media reported that the end […]

Some provisions of the Constitution enjoy far more attention than others. At the Supreme Court, for example, it is a rare term that doesn’t have a case involving the First, Second, or Fourth Amendments. Yet that is not true for every clause in the Constitution. Today I’d like to cover […]

The Supreme Court’s decision about President Donald Trump’s attempt to narrow access to birthright citizenship left no doubt that a majority of justices agree it’s illegal. But two justices, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, revealed that they also viewed the challenges to Trump’s executive order as about more than the […]

Thanks to everyone who joined yesterday’s LinkedIn Live event to hear SCOTUSblog’s Amy Howe and Briefly’s Adam Stofsky discuss the 2025-26 term. The video of the discussion remains available on the event page. And in case you missed it, a video of SCOTUSblog Executive Editor Zach Shemtob and ACLU National […]