Why religion and education will be in the spotlight next term
As the back-to-school spirit sweeps across the nation, education is likely on the minds of the Supreme Court justices (especially those with kids still at home or in college). The…
Solicitor General Sauer’s SCOTUS tightrope
Three weeks after D. John Sauer was confirmed as the 49th solicitor general, law professor and podcast co-host William Baude speculated that Sauer might be “either fired or disbarred by…
Has the Supreme Court rendered the First Amendment’s press clause invisible?
In 2021, the legal scholars RonNell Andersen Jones and Sonja West published a study tracking the Supreme Court’s references to the press in its opinions over time. The data they…
Alcohol at the Supreme Court
During the 2025-26 term, the justices pondered the Founding Fathers’ drinking habits as they considered a law barring habitual drug users from possessing guns. In the term ahead, they may…
The scope of the Supreme Court’s emergency docket
On Aug. 12, an unusual emergency docket application captured court watchers’ attention. It centered on a dog named Bruce who was scheduled to die. Read more Trump administration awaits emergency…
Who exactly are the “friends of the court”?
On Oct. 13, the Supreme Court will hear argument in Beaird v. United States, a case brought by a Texas man challenging an increase to his sentence for having a…
Are Republicans falling out of love with the Supreme Court?
Public opinion polls fielded and released this summer showed a by-now-familiar partisan gap in views on the Supreme Court. Republicans are not only more likely than Democrats to approve of…
What does the Trump administration want from the Supreme Court next?
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…
The court’s big gun cases – and what’s next
With the justices now on summer recess, let’s take a minute to reflect on the term and its impact on the Second Amendment. As a reminder, the court heard two…
The push to reduce the Supreme Court’s power
Supreme Court reform is in the spotlight this summer after a contentious term in which the court limited Congress’ ability to prevent the president from removing the heads of certain…