Last week, the federal government joined President Donald Trump’s personal legal team in asking the Supreme Court to review an $83.3 million judgment against the president in a defamation case…
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The Supreme Court will kick off its 2026-27 term with oral arguments in a lawsuit brought by a Colorado county seeking millions of dollars from oil and gas companies for…
This article was adapted from an essay that first appeared in the essay collection America Unfinished: 250 Years of Law and Governance (MIT Press, 2026). Read more When the court…
In a decision allowing the Trump administration to move forward with plans to end humanitarian immigration protection for hundreds of thousands of people living and working in the United States,…
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Lawyers for a group of 23 states and the District of Columbia on Monday afternoon urged the Supreme Court to leave in place by a federal court in Boston that…
This is my first article for SCOTUSblog, and I want to explain why I have chosen the header Born Free and Equal for my column. The phrase is derived from…
In United States v. Rahimi, the Supreme Court denied that the Second Amendment is “a law trapped in amber.” That metaphor has now exploded onto constitutional law, appearing in six…
Plus, another high-profile Democrat expresses support for expanding the court.