Announcing our first SCOTUS forecasting contest
Many SCOTUSblog readers have strong opinions on not only how the Supreme Court should decide particular cases, but how it will decide such cases. Indeed, we’ve received plenty of emails…
The Supreme Court’s two decades of constitutional change
This series for SCOTUSblog will recount two decades of constitutional change through the five editions of our casebook, the first published in 2008 and the latest to be published this…
Trump administration again asks for emergency relief
Plus, Justice Alito will no longer participate in a major climate change case.
The Supreme Court is building power no one gave it
On Sept. 18, over 2,000 people gathered around the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. – and held hands. Former employees, performing legends, long-time D.C. residents, and regular people from all…
Supreme Court to hear argument on Trump administration’s deportation of immigrants to third-party countries
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in December in a challenge by immigrants to the government’s practice of deporting them to countries that are not identified in their removal…
The “born free and equal” clauses and the right to pursue a profession of one’s choice
This is the last of seven introductory articles on the relevance for constitutional law and the Supreme Court of the “born free and equal” clauses, which appeared in the Declaration…
Trump administration asks justices to block lower court order on transgender inmate policy
The Trump administration on Monday morning asked the Supreme Court to block an order by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., that bars the Federal Bureau of Prisons from enforcing…
Immigrants ask Supreme Court to leave ruling in place preventing Trump administration from deporting them to third-party countries
Lawyers for immigrants whom the Trump administration is seeking to deport urged the Supreme Court on Monday to leave in place a ruling by a federal judge in Massachusetts that…
Justice Alito will no longer participate in climate change dispute
The Supreme Court on Monday that Justice Samuel Alito will not continue to participate in Suncor Energy Inc. v. County Commissioners of Boulder County, a significant dispute that will be…