Supreme Court agrees to hear case on whether airplane was improperly seized for transporting a six-pack of beer
The Supreme Court on Monday morning added a new case to its oral argument docket for the 2026-27 term. As part of a regularly scheduled…
Trump administration asks justices to have lower court reconsider protected status for Venezuelan and Haitian nationals
In submitted on July 9 and docketed on Monday, U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer urged the justices to order the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit to…
Narrow holdings with broad consequences
June brought two Second Amendment decisions. In United States v. Hemani, the court unanimously sustained Ali Hemani’s challenge to his indictment under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3), for possessing firearms while…
The court’s criminal law term: overview and observations
Approximately two weeks after of the 57 argued cases decided by the Supreme Court in the October 2025-26 Term was filed, this column presents an overview of the “pure” criminal…
Carroll Receives Payment from Trump
Plus, what Justices Kagan and Barrett told Congress about the court’s security concerns.
Justices Kagan and Barrett testify before Congress
In the first appearances by members of the Supreme Court before Congress in seven years, Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett testified on Tuesday in both the House of…
Executive power and its limits
Zachary Shemtob: So first of all, thank you so much to Amy. I’m really excited to have this conversation. There’s so much to talk about. Unfortunately, we have limited time,…
Two cheers – but not three – for Roberts and Barrett
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett deserve high praise for the pivotal role they played at the end of the just-concluded term in two key cases. Read…
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…
A history of justices testifying before Congress
Justices Kagan and Barrett will discuss the court’s budget request before House and Senate subcommittees.
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.…