Challengers ask court to pause agreement between Texas and the DOJ on deportation proceedings

Three cities and a group that provides legal services to immigrants came to the Supreme Court, asking the justices to pause an agreement between Texas and the Department of Justice that they described as the product of “egregious collusion.” A ruling in the challengers’ favor would temporarily restore a Biden-era […]

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The Tribal Supreme Court Project

The Native American Rights Fund recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Tribal Supreme Court Project, an initiative designed to establish an infrastructure that would allow tribal interests to reach better outcomes in Supreme Court litigation. For decades now, Supreme Court experts sympathetic to tribal interests have advised them to […]

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SCOTUS considers new take on old law

Justice Clarence Thomas was confirmed to the Supreme Court 35 years ago today. In May, he became the second-longest-serving justice in Supreme Court history. At the Court On Wednesday, the justices heard oral argument in Salazar v. Paramount Global, on whether and how the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act, which […]

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The immigration term

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court added Blanche v. Ozurumba, a case on whether someone who worked as a cook for a terrorist organization is eligible for asylum protections, to its oral argument docket for the 2026-27 term. Even before that grant, however, the docket was dominated by immigration issues. Since […]

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Justices grant Trump administration’s request to pause lower court ruling in political ad rate dispute

The Supreme Court on Wednesday cleared the way for political parties and joint fundraising committees to continue to receive favorable advertising rates in the run-up to the 2026 election. In a five-page, unsigned opinion, the justices extended a pause on a ruling by a federal appeals court in Virginia that […]

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Hooch, hardball, and Halloween

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. The Supreme Court has disposed of four of last week’s 14 relists and appears to be holding a fifth. As is frequently the case, the […]

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Witnessing a reorientation of the First and Second Amendments on the Roberts court

Please note that SCOTUS Outside Opinions constitute the views of outside contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SCOTUSblog or its staff. *** This is the third part in a series for SCOTUSblog recounting two decades of constitutional change through the five editions of our casebook, the first published in 2008 and […]

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Justices grant three cases

Earlier this year, SCOTUSblog published the first Interim Relief Docket Stat Pack, a statistical portrait of the Supreme Court’s interim/emergency/shadow docket for the 2024-25 term. Now that the 2025-26 term has concluded, Taraleigh Davis produced a second edition of this stat pack, which we released on Tuesday. At the Court […]

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