California urges court to permit it to use congressional map enacted to counter Republican gains in Texas

Lawyers for the state of California on Thursday urged the Supreme Court to leave in place a new congressional map intended to give Democrats five additional seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. Christopher Hu, the deputy solicitor general of California, called the desire by Republicans to retain a majority […]

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When will we get the tariffs ruling?

On Nov. 5, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in the challenges to President Donald Trump’s authority to impose broad tariffs through a series of executive orders that he issued in 2025. As is often the case with high-profile cases, there is enormous interest in how the court will rule. […]

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SCOTUStoday for Thursday, January 29

Yesterday was Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s birthday. Barrett, now 54, is the youngest current justice. Plus, a reminder: we’re hiring! We’re looking for an editor to oversee a new daily newsletter for commercial litigators and corporate counsel that highlights circuit court decisions, relists, denials, en banc grants, and notable dissents. SCOTUS […]

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Introducing the Interim Relief Docket Stat Pack

For years, scholars and commentators have tracked the Supreme Court’s merits docket through detailed statistical analyses. SCOTUSblog’s Stat Pack has become an essential resource for understanding how the justices decide cases after full briefing and oral argument. But the court’s “other” docket, the interim relief docket – also known as […]

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Second Amendment jurisprudence is a mess

The Supreme Court has made a mess of the law concerning the Second Amendment. Two years ago, in the last Supreme Court decision about the Second Amendment, United States v. Rahimi, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in a concurring opinion noted how “lower courts are struggling” with recent precedent concerning this amendment […]

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SCOTUStoday for Wednesday, January 28

Justice Louis Brandeis, the first Jewish justice, was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Woodrow Wilson on this day in 1916. SCOTUSblog executive editor Zach Shemtob recently gave a Jewish Study Center presentation on the history of Jewish justices and what the future could hold. Plus, a reminder: we’re hiring! […]

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Defending the Fed: agency independence in three dimensions

Controlling Opinions is a recurring series by Richard Re that explores the interaction of law, ideology, and discretion at the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court is creating a formidable presidential power to remove subordinate executive officials, even from many once-independent agencies. Yet the court is not simply tearing down the […]

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SCOTUStoday for Tuesday, January 27

Today is Chief Justice John Roberts’ birthday. Born in 1955, Roberts has served on the Supreme Court since 2005. SCOTUS Quick Hits On Monday, the court released an order list and announced that it will hear argument in Salazar v. Paramount Global, on the scope of the Video Privacy Protection […]

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The case for embracing “boring” cases

Friday, Jan. 9, was the Supreme Court’s first announced opinion day of the term, and the excitement that typically surrounds that occasion was heightened by rumors that the court would release its ruling on President Donald Trump’s tariffs. It felt as if the eyes of the whole country were on […]

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