Court unanimously sides with government in immigration dispute

The Supreme Court unanimously sided with the federal government on Wednesday in Urias-Orellana v. Bondi, holding in an opinion by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson that federal courts of appeals must use a relatively deferential standard of review when assessing the Board of Immigration Appeals’ determination that asylum seekers did not […]

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The SCOTUS attorney switcheroo

Empirical SCOTUS is a recurring series by Adam Feldman that looks at Supreme Court data, primarily in the form of opinions and oral arguments, to provide insights into the justices’ decision making and what we can expect from the court in the future. Perhaps one of the most widespread practices that goes (relatively) […]

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Birthright citizenship: an empirical analysis of supposedly originalist briefs

Brothers in Law is a recurring series by brothers Akhil and Vikram Amar, with special emphasis on measuring what the Supreme Court says against what the Constitution itself says. For more content from Akhil and Vikram, please see Akhil’s free weekly podcast, “Amarica’s Constitution,” Vikram’s regular columns on Justia, and Akhil’s new book, Born Equal: […]

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SCOTUStoday for Wednesday, March 4

Good morning, and welcome to the court’s fourth opinion day in less than two weeks. We will be live blogging beginning at 9:30 a.m. EST. At the Court On Tuesday, the court heard argument in Hunter v. United States, on whether a federal appeals court properly dismissed a Texas man’s […]

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Déjà vu all over again

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 is continuing to chip away at its relist backlog, though not exactly at warp speed. The justices denied review in three such cases […]

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The UK Supreme Court

Welcome to SCOUTSblog’s newest recurring series, in which we interview experts on different supreme courts around the world and how they compare to our own. For our debut column, we figured it only made sense to go back to the mother country and its mother court. And to help us […]

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SCOTUStoday for Tuesday, March 3

As we’ve noted before, we read a lot of legal news in the process of preparing this newsletter. Here’s a headline we saw recently that we won’t soon forget: References to ‘The Wire’ helped taint man’s trial, NJ Supreme Court rules. At the Court On Monday, the court heard argument […]

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The justices’ troubling message to lower courts

Civil Rights and Wrongs is a recurring series by Daniel Harawa covering criminal justice and civil rights cases before the court. In two recent decisions, the Supreme Court summarily reversed – that is, reversed without full briefing or oral argument – the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit’s […]

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Divided court sides with parents in dispute over California policies on transgender students

The Supreme Court on Monday night granted a request from a group of California parents to reinstate a ruling by a federal district court that prohibits schools in that state from “misleading parents about their children’s gender presentation” and that requires schools to follow parents’ instructions regarding the names and […]

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