Please note that SCOTUS Outside Opinions constitute the views of outside contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SCOTUSblog or its staff. Last month, the Supreme Court held oral argument on two landmark anti-discrimination cases: Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J. The states in these cases – Idaho […]

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson just lost out on a major award to the Dalai Lama. To understand why they were in competition, look to the Morning Reads section below. SCOTUS Quick Hits On Jan. 20, a group of California Republicans asked the court on its interim docket to block the […]

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. By the middle of January of this term, the Supreme […]

In Dissent is a recurring series by Anastasia Boden on Supreme Court dissents that have shaped (or reshaped) our country. On a Depression-era dinner table sat a can of milk that wasn’t quite milk. It was called Milnut, and it was technically a “filled milk” – meaning it looked and […]

Civil Rights and Wrongs is a recurring series by Daniel Harawa covering criminal justice and civil rights cases before the court. On Jan. 20, in what would be an otherwise unremarkable order, the Supreme Court dismissed Danny Howell’s petition for review, denying his request to proceed “in forma pauperis” – […]

Saturday marked 20 years since Justice Samuel Alito took his seat on the Supreme Court. The question of whether Alito might retire came up often at the end of last term, but President Donald Trump said in December that he hopes Alito remains on the court. SCOTUS Quick Hits On […]

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on April 1 in the challenge to President Donald Trump’s efforts to end birthright citizenship – that is, the guarantee of citizenship to virtually everyone born in the United States. That case, Trump v. Barbara, is one of eight cases scheduled during the […]

Please note that SCOTUS Outside Opinions constitute the views of outside contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SCOTUSblog or its staff. Tradition may have been a balancing force in “Fiddler on the Roof”but nowadays it has originalists feeling out of whack. Originalists unite around the belief that constitutional provisions […]

Looking for some Supreme Court-themed weekend reading? Consider Robert H. Jackson: A Life in Judgment, a new book on former Justice Robert H. Jackson that’s been highlighted in The Washington Post and Moment Magazine in the past week. And remember that our own Sarah Isgur’s book, Last Branch Standing, is […]

The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will hear argument in Salazar v. Paramount Global, on the interpretation of a federal law passed in 1988 intended to protect videotape rental histories from public disclosure. For some court watchers, the line on the order list that said “[t]he petition for a […]