In Hunter v. United States the Supreme Court held that a federal defendant’s waiver of appellate review is unenforceable if it would result in a miscarriage of justice. Although the…
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It’s not often that opinions written by Justices Neil Gorsuch, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Samuel Alito agree on how to decide a Second Amendment case. In United States v. Hemani…
Plus, we’re expecting an order list this morning and opinion announcements tomorrow and Thursday.
Plus, laws on “habitual drunkards” featured prominently in the court’s latest Second Amendment ruling.
A divided Supreme Court on Thursday clarified the scope of a doctrine limiting lower federal courts’ authority to review state-court judgments. In an opinion from Justice Sonia Sotomayor in T.M.…
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in United States v. Hemani that the federal government cannot prosecute a Texas man on charges that he violated a federal law barring users…
The Supreme Court on Thursday sent the case of a Texas man who is seeking to appeal one of the conditions that a federal judge imposed as part of his…
Plus, is the Supreme Court running behind compared to the past five terms?
We will be live blogging as the court potentially releases opinions in one or more argued cases from the current term.