The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for the federal government to remove protections for citizens of Haiti and Syria under a federal program that allows foreign citizens to stay in the United States when the U.S. government believes that it is not safe for them to return to […]

The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the federal government’s policy of systematically turning back asylum seekers before they can reach the U.S.-Mexico border. By a vote of 6-3, the justices agreed with the Trump administration in Mullin v. Al Otro Lado that the policy, which was adopted a decade ago […]

The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a Hawaii law that makes it a crime for gun owners to bring their guns onto private property that is open to the public unless they have the property owner’s specific consent. In Wolford v. Lopez, by a vote of 6-3, the justices […]

Today is Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s birthday. Born in 1954, Sotomayor has served on the court since 2009. Plus, we will be live blogging this morning beginning at 9:30 a.m. EDT as the court announces opinions in one or more argued cases. We are expecting 12 more decisions by early July, […]

The Supreme Court’s April 29 ruling curtailing a key provision of the Voting Rights Act cleared the way for last-minute redistricting pushes in states such as Louisiana and Tennessee. As a result, it fueled new, more urgent calls for Congress to take action to ban mid-decade map drawing and partisan […]

In the month and a half since the Supreme Court decided Louisiana v. Callais, the actual and potential scope of that case’s destructive impact on the Reconstruction Amendments and on congressional power has only become clearer. As a reminder, in Callais, the Supreme Court effectively overruled Section 2 of the […]

On this day in 2022, the court released Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, holding that the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion. A draft of the majority opinion had leaked approximately seven weeks earlier, prompting protests across the country. At the Court On Tuesday, the court released […]

Tuesday’s decision in Pung v Isabella County squarely rejects an argument that the longstanding use of tax foreclosure sales as a method to collect unpaid real-estate taxes violates the takings clause of the Fifth Amendment or the excessive fines clause of the Eighth Amendment. The specific problem that gives rise […]

The Supreme Court on Tuesday in Blanche v. Lau cleared the way for immigration officers to more freely deny lawful permanent residents – also known as green card holders – admission into the United States. By a vote of 6-3, the court, in an opinion from Justice Clarence Thomas, held […]

The Supreme Court on Tuesday sent a dispute over the compensation that a Michigan county was required to pay to a homeowner after it sold his house because of unpaid taxes back to the lower court. In an opinion by Justice Samuel Alito, the court agreed in Pung v. Isabella […]