Will the Supreme Court end nitrogen gas executions?

When President Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025, he directed his administration to “restor[e] the death penalty.” His embrace of capital punishment helped fuel a surge in executions at the state level last year, as I previously reported, and led the Justice Department to produce a report on […]

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Justices to testify before Senate committee

If you’re a Supreme Court nerd looking for something, well, unexpected to watch this weekend, we’ve got you covered. Yesterday, TED released Neal Katyal’s talk on the tariffs case, in which he explores how he used AI to help him prepare for oral argument and what he learned from the […]

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The extraordinary power sought by the Trump administration in the TPS case isn’t anything new in immigration law

Immigration Matters is a recurring series by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández that analyzes the court’s immigration docket, highlighting emerging legal questions about new policy and enforcement practices. A key feature of the United States’ humanitarian approach to migration will be handed entirely to executive branch officials if the Supreme Court […]

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More interim docket action

Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase died on this day in 1873. As we noted in our Closer Look on his life and career, Chase was a passionate abolitionist and was once praised by President Abraham Lincoln as being “about one and a half times bigger than any other man that […]

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The recent Voting Rights Act case

Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean for the law, for lawyers and lower courts, and for people’s lives. The Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais is the culmination of decades of its rulings limiting the Voting Rights Act. No […]

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A 2-3-4 wild card court; and Blanche v. Lau made easy

ScotusCrim is a recurring series by Rory Little focusing on intersections between the Supreme Court and criminal law. In today’s column I first offer a different, nuanced, way to think about the current court composition. Then I’ll switch gears. Last month I previewed Blanche v. Lau, a crimmigration case requiring […]

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