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…
Justice Jackson reignites the interpretation wars, adding to textualism’s emerging cracks
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson may be starting a statutory-interpretation revolution. Read more Is Chief Justice Roberts moderating from the front? Jackson’s third full term was a doozy of separate opinions.…
Is Chief Justice Roberts moderating from the front?
Many commentators have complained that Chief Justice John Roberts has shown himself not to be a true institutionalist but rather a conservative ideologue. Hillary Clinton recently provided an example, suggesting…
The powerful, resilient, independent Supreme Court
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Is the Roberts court hyperopic or willfully blind?
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 Looking back and looking…
A tale of two justices and their children’s books
Now that the court has handed down its final opinions in argued cases for the 2025-26 term, Supreme Court observers must account not only for what has been decided but,…