How William Howard Taft transformed from a portly president to a svelte chief justice
As summer comes to a close, I thought SCOTUSblog readers might appreciate a brief escape from the day’s dreary headlines to something a bit different:…
Haitian nationals ask for DIG in TPS Case
Plus, if you’d like to attend our term-in-review event on July 8, remember to register your interest.
Haitian citizens ask justices to throw out dispute over whether Trump administration properly ended protected status for them
A group of Haitian citizens who are beneficiaries of a program that allows them to stay in the United States on Tuesday, asking the justices to throw out a dispute…
How Supreme Court precedents die before they are overruled
When the Supreme Court says a precedent has been “abandoned,” the real work has already been done. Read more Nine days in June That was the story of Lemon v.…
Nine days in June
As we await the usual late-June flurry of decisions – some of them quite significant – I wanted to reflect on what I believe to be the most extraordinary June…
Court adds three cases to 2026-27 docket
Plus, the justices denied several notable petitions for review on Monday.
Justices urged to stop Texas from enforcing age-verification and parental-consent law on apps
A student group and a trade association came to the Supreme Court on Monday afternoon on its interim docket, asking the justices to restore orders by a federal judge in…
Court agrees to hear three new cases, including on the constitutionality of six-person juries
The Supreme Court on Monday added three new cases, on issues ranging from hearings for noncitizens in immigration detention to the constitutionality of Florida’s six-person juries and the exceptions to…
The dissent that became a statute
Near the end of her career, Lilly Ledbetter received an anonymous note: she was being paid far less than every man doing the same job. Ledbetter was one of the…
Alabama responds to court’s order on nitrogen gas execution
Plus, what’s the most opinions released in one day?
Justices reject “rigid” rule punishing omissions by bankrupt debtors
Yesterday’s decision in Keathley v Buddy Ayers Construction squarely rejected a “rigid” rule adopted by the lower court to punish the failure of a debtor in bankruptcy to mention one…