Is the Supreme Court running behind?

When the justices take the bench on Thursday morning to issue opinions, the Supreme Court will have 20 cases left to decide, with just under two weeks to go before the end of June – the point by which the justices normally release all of their decisions and leave for […]

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Supreme Court may decide important case on immigration detention regarding attorneys’ fees

The Trump administration has made detention a key part of its hardline approach to migrants. Through aggressive enforcement tactics and changes to longstanding policies, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is detaining more people than ever before. Immigration lawyers have been pushing back on an equally unprecedented scale, challenging the […]

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Bivens at the bedside

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. October Term 2025 is drawing to a close in just a few weeks. And before the Supreme Court can close the books on the term, […]

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Haitian nationals ask for DIG in TPS Case

We’re now just three weeks away from our term-in-review event at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center, which will take place on July 8 from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. EDT. The event will feature a fireside chat with the ACLU’s Cecillia Wang, who argued the birthright citizenship case before the Supreme […]

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How Supreme Court precedents die before they are overruled

When the Supreme Court says a precedent has been “abandoned,” the real work has already been done. That was the story of Lemon v. Kurtzman, decided in 1971. For decades, the court invoked, revised, sidestepped, and criticized Lemon’s approach to the establishment clause of the First Amendment. The formal reports still contained […]

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Nine days in June

As we await the usual late-June flurry of decisions – some of them quite significant – I wanted to reflect on what I believe to be the most extraordinary June in the modern Supreme Court, which took place four years ago in 2022. In decisions between June 21 and June […]

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Court adds three cases to 2026-27 docket

Reminder: We’ve got new merch! Celebrate your love of SCOTUSblog and Advisory Opinions with a new hat or shirt. At the Court On Monday, the court added three cases to its oral argument docket for next term and denied several notable petitions for review. For more on Monday’s order list, […]

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Court agrees to hear three new cases, including on the constitutionality of six-person juries

The Supreme Court on Monday added three new cases, on issues ranging from hearings for noncitizens in immigration detention to the constitutionality of Florida’s six-person juries and the exceptions to the general rule on second petitions for federal post-conviction relief. The announcement came as part of a list of orders […]

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