Justice, Democracy, and Law is a recurring series by Edward B. Foley that focuses on election law and the relationship of law and democracy. The defining theme of the first year of Donald Trump’s second presidency, at least from the perspective of those who focus on the Supreme Court, has […]

Tuesday’s argument in M&K Employee Solutions v Trustees of the IAM National Pension Fund showed a bench skeptical of forcing actuaries to use out-of-date assumptions when they work on pension plans. The case involves a particular type of pension arrangement in which a group of employers in the same industry […]

It is a crisply cold winter morning in Washington as people filed into the Supreme Court for Trump v. Cook, about President Donald Trump’s effort to remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. It is warm in the courtroom, though, and by the time reporters are escorted upstairs, some notable guests […]

Rights and Responsibilities is a recurring series by Richard Garnett on legal education, the role of the courts in our constitutional structure, and the law of religious freedom and free expression. I have observed that, when it comes to religious freedom and church-state relations – and contrary to some commentators’ complaints […]

We’re on the precipice of the Supreme Court’s four-week winter recess. Only time will tell if the next month will be a quiet one or if we’ll get additional rulings. Plus, a reminder: we’re hiring! We’re looking for an editor to oversee a new daily newsletter for commercial litigators and […]

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. On Friday, the Supreme Court granted what may be its last grants of the October 2025-26 term. All of them were one-time relists: Monsanto Co. v. […]

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: […]

In December, the Supreme Court allowed Texas to use a new congressional map enacted to give Republicans five additional seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, blocking a lower court’s ruling that the map unconstitutionally sorted voters based on race. On Tuesday night, Republicans came to the Supreme Court, asking […]

The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared likely to leave Lisa Cook, a member of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, on the job while her challenge to President Donald Trump’s attempt to fire her continues. Although the Trump administration contends that the president acted within the law, a majority of […]

As the justices turn at last to releasing opinions in argued cases, it should be no surprise that they start with unanimous decisions like Berk v. Choy. There, although several of the justices may not be fans of medical malpractice litigation, none of them was willing to clutter up the […]