The home stretch

Good morning, and welcome to a new week and another opinion announcement day. We will be live blogging beginning at 9:30 a.m. EDT. We are expecting eight more decisions in argued cases (which are likely – though not guaranteed – to come down by the end of this week), including […]

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When justices wade into politics

Scholar Robert Dahl, writing back in 1957, once remarked that “Americans are not quite willing to accept the fact that [the Supreme Court] is a political institution and not quite capable of denying it; so that frequently we take both positions at once.” Generally, the justices have refrained from explicitly […]

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An unusual retort to a dissent from the bench

Next week, what is being billed as the biggest fireworks show ever in Washington, D.C., will help celebrate the nation’s 250th birthday. Yet the Supreme Court will offer its own pyrotechnics this morning with a dramatic and possibly unprecedented rebuttal by a majority opinion author to an impassioned dissent from […]

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Penultimate relists: papers, parents, and procedural puzzles

The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here. This Thursday’s conference is the last one currently scheduled during the October Term 2025. If past practice is any guide, the court will add a […]

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