ScotusCrim is a recurring series by Rory Little focusing on intersections between the Supreme Court and criminal law. It’s always a wonder to me how some of the most important cases of the Supreme Court’s term receive the shortest amount of time to decide. But that is undoubtedly the impact […]

We will be live blogging as the court potentially releases opinions in one or more argued cases from the current term. Click here for a list of FAQs about opinion announcements. Note: A login is not required to participate in the chat. The post Announcement of opinions for Friday, April […]

The Seventh Amendment guarantees a right to a jury trial in “suits at common law” – that is, lawsuits seeking legal remedies, such as money, rather than a remedy (known as equitable relief) that orders a defendant to do something or to stop doing something – in which $20 or […]

Please note that the following does not reflect the official opinions of SCOTUSblog. The Supreme Court is losing legitimacy – the only superpower it has. It’s under attack from partisan critics and presidents who don’t want their power challenged. Yet the court isn’t perfect. Does the institution need to change to […]

Happy publication day to SCOTUSblog’s own Sarah Isgur. Her new book Last Branch Standing offers “[a] myth-busting glimpse into the inner workings of the Supreme Court.” At the Court The court will next hear arguments on Monday, the first day of its April sitting. The court has not yet indicated […]

Over the last two months, we have laid out in detail our ideas about the key issues in the birthright citizenship case, Trump v. Barbara. Today, we compare our arguments and analysis to what the justices asked and said at oral argument on April 1. As it turned out, virtually […]

The Second Amendment states that “[a] well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” As both critics and supporters of the amendment recognize, little of that language is particularly straightforward. What is a […]

Yesterday marked 81 years since the inauguration of President Harry Truman, who went on to select four Supreme Court justices while he was in office. Will President Donald Trump have the opportunity to place four justices on the court, as well? Read the latest on a potential retirement this term […]

One of the more frequent questions we get here at SCOTUSblog is how the court decides which cases to review on the merits – that is, to have additional briefing and oral argument on, followed by a written opinion. Although this has been written about in SCOTUSblog before, we thought […]

The Supreme Court justice memoir, so lucrative for its authors, tends to be a less than illuminating genre. Justice Neil Gorsuch’s A Republic, If You Can Keep It reiterated the case for originalism and attempted to illustrate why he was a worthy successor to Justice Antonin Scalia. Justice Amy Coney […]