The Supreme Court will close out its 2025-26 term with oral arguments in cases involving immigration law, the Fourth Amendment, generic drug labels, and the availability of claims alleging that a private company aided and abetted torture and serious violations of international human rights laws. The justices on Wednesday morning […]

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. It’s no secret that all three of President Donald Trump’s […]

Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean for the law, for lawyers and lower courts, and for people’s lives. The Supreme Court’s recent rulings allowing Texas and California to engage in mid-decade gerrymandering of congressional districts show the urgent […]

“It takes a while to write.” No, that’s not what I said when my editor asked me when I would finish this edition of SCOTUStoday, it is what Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson told “CBS Mornings” yesterday when asked why the Supreme Court hadn’t yet released its ruling on tariffs. “There […]

For decades, the U.S. solicitor general’s most familiar role at the certiorari stage has been reactive rather than proactive: When the Supreme Court wants the federal government’s views on a certiorari petition in a case in which the United States is not a party, it usually has to ask for […]

Ahead of Valentine’s Day, the Supreme Court is putting a spotlight on a “Match Made in Utah.” Its website currently features the marriage certificate for Justice George Sutherland and Rose Lee, which the couple received from Utah when it was still a territory, not a state. George and Rose “were […]

Last week, the Supreme Court issued a one-sentence order that cleared the way for California to use a new congressional map intended to add five Democratic seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. The California map was a response to Texas’ adoption of a new map that created five House […]

Now that the Supreme Court appears to have filled out its oral argument docket for the 2025-26 term (unless it opts to fast-track a case), it seems an apt time to survey the Second Amendment landscape and highlight some of the biggest issues that the justices have not yet tackled. […]

ScotusCrim is a recurring series by Rory Little focusing on intersections between the Supreme Court and criminal law. Imagine: A group of drug dealers beat and shoot dead a citizen they felt was interfering with their work. There are witnesses as well as video evidence establishing these facts and enabling […]

Yesterday marked 85 years since the death of Justice Willis Van Devanter. Van Devanter served on the Supreme Court from 1911 to 1937, and, during Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s presidency, was part of the four-justice conservative bloc known as the “Four Horsemen.” SCOTUS Quick Hits The court could rule at any […]