Rebecca Slaughter speaks out

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 […]

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The administrative agency cases were not the court’s only significant separation of powers decisions this term

Please note that SCOTUS Outside Opinions constitute the views of outside contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SCOTUSblog or its staff. This term, the court decided several important separation of powers cases. In Trump v. Slaughter and Trump v. Cook, the court addressed the relationship between Congress and administrative […]

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The public’s view of the Supreme Court

One of the more controversial topics concerning the Supreme Court is how attuned justices should be to public opinion. An even more fundamental question, however, is how closely public opinion matches the Supreme Court’s decisions. The Marquette Law School Poll, which I direct, conducts national polls on just that question […]

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Narrow holdings with broad consequences

June brought two Second Amendment decisions. In United States v. Hemani, the court unanimously sustained Ali Hemani’s challenge to his indictment under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3), for possessing firearms while being an unlawful user of a controlled substance. And in Wolford v. Lopez, the court held unconstitutional a Hawaii law that […]

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Carroll receives payment from Trump

On Tuesday, Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett testified for nearly four hours in total before House and Senate subcommittees. Look to the On Site section below for key takeaways. Plus, we’re now just one day away from Thursday’s LinkedIn Live event on the 2025-26 term’s most consequential cases, […]

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The court’s criminal law term: overview and observations

Approximately two weeks after the final opinion of the 57 argued cases decided by the Supreme Court in the October 2025-26 Term was filed, this column presents an overview of the “pure” criminal law decisions the court issued. By my characterization, there were 16 (or 17) “pure” criminal law cases […]

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Justices Kagan and Barrett testify before Congress

In the first appearances by members of the Supreme Court before Congress in seven years, Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett testified on Tuesday in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Although the focus of the justices’ testimony was the court’s budget, which Congress appropriates, the two […]

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Executive power and its limits

Watch on YouTube Zachary Shemtob: [00:00:00] So first of all, thank you so much to Amy. I’m really excited to have this conversation. There’s so much to talk about. Unfortunately, we have limited time, so I’m [going to] try and make it as substantive as possible – not that this […]

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