The biggest Supreme Court surprises this term
At the end of a recent talk on the Supreme Court’s latest term I was asked what surprised me most about the term. I was not surprised by the results…
The Supreme Court and the opinion-assignment guessing game
As we saw this term, by late May the Supreme Court begins releasing the bulk of its merits decisions, and with it a familiar guessing game starts among court watchers.…
A dissent worthy of a World Cup
This month the World Cup final will be played at MetLife Stadium, home of the New York Giants and Jets. Read more How Justice Samuel Alito stands out Nobody finds…
The man and the movement: a Q&A with Peter Canellos on his biography of Samuel Alito
Peter S. Canellos is a prize-winning journalist and the author of Revenge for the Sixties: Sam Alito and the Triumph of the Conservative Legal Movement, which Publishers Weekly called “a…
High court mysteries
One might argue that Supreme Court justices are more visible today than ever before. Six have published books and Brett Kavanaugh is apparently working on one to become the seventh.…
Justice shopping on the emergency docket?
Over the past year, I have written about the emergency docket, and each time the analysis has centered on substantive applications over such issues as whether agency heads can be…
Who is the Supreme Court’s most “ideological” justice? And does that question even make sense?
We often describe the court through a familiar shorthand: three Republican-appointed conservatives (Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch) at the far right of the court; three Democratic-appointed liberals…
Revisiting which Supreme Court cases are actually the most important
Please note that SCOTUS Outside Opinions constitute the views of outside contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SCOTUSblog or its staff. Read more The Supreme Court’s quiet…
The Supreme Court’s quiet coup
Please note that SCOTUS Outside Opinions constitute the views of outside contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SCOTUSblog or its staff. Read more Kagan and Barrett to…
The Supreme Court’s disturbing approach to federal spending
Last week, the Supreme Court finished handing down its opinions in argued cases this term. In light of its decisions on birthright citizenship and the administrative state, one decision, from…