Birthright citizenship: hard questions – and the best answers – for Trump’s challengers

In our last column, we imagined grilling Solicitor General D. John Sauer in a moot court on birthright citizenship. Today, we reverse angles and imagine some of the hardest questions that tough-minded justices could ask the challengers’ lawyer, our friend and ACLU counsel Cecilia Wang, at Wednesday’s Supreme Court oral […]

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Veterans benefits: a consensus candidate for cert

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. It was a relatively quiet week at the relist window – just one grant, one denial, one apparent hold, and one new relist. Specifically, the justices […]

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SCOTUStoday for Tuesday, March 31

Good morning, and welcome to what’s expected to be the fourth opinion day of the month. We will be live blogging beginning at 9:30 a.m. EDT. Also, to those of you who are in the legal profession, could you please fill out this brief survey about your work? At the Court On […]

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Immigration law wins for Trump do not necessarily suggest a citizenship victory

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. The Justice Department will soon be back before the Supreme Court defending President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship policy. The Trump administration has won […]

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Trump v. Barbara: an animated explainer

SCOTUSblog is excited to share the second in a series of animated videos, done in partnership with Briefly, on some of the most important upcoming cases of the 2025-26 term. Today’s video is an introduction to Trump v. Barbara, to be argued on Wednesday, April 1, which is a challenge to […]

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