Is the court done with Callais?

Mark your calendars: Two weeks from today, on Wednesday, May 20, at noon EDT, SCOTUSblog and Briefly are partnering for a LinkedIn Live event on this term’s highest-profile cases. Amy and Briefly’s Adam Stofsky will revisit memorable moments from oral arguments and reflect on what’s at stake in disputes that […]

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The nine lives of Employment Division v. Smith

On April 20, the Supreme Court announced that it will hear argument next term in St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy, in which a Catholic preschool is challenging its exclusion from Colorado’s “universal preschool” program by arguing that Colorado must allow it to deny admission to LGBTQ children and children […]

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The docket that cannot be named

Controlling Opinions is a recurring series that explores the interaction of law, ideology, and discretion at the Supreme Court. It’s a question that most Supreme Court watchers are all-too-familiar with: What should we call the court’s expanded practice of ruling on cases in an unusually expedited fashion? We confronted this […]

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Abortion pill dispute returns to Supreme Court

On Saturday, two companies that manufacture mifepristone came to the court in Danco Laboratories v. Louisiana, asking the justices to pause a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit in a lawsuit by Louisiana that reinstated the requirement that the drug, which is used in about […]

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When justices turn on each other

On April 15, the Supreme Court’s Public Information Office released a remarkable three-sentence statement. In that statement, Justice Sonia Sotomayor called remarks that she had recently made about a colleague “inappropriate” and “hurtful,” and she indicated that she had apologized to that individual. Although Sotomayor did not identify the colleague […]

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