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:…
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.…
The rarity of Supreme Court do-overs
Plus, what Cecillia Wang said about arguing the birthright citizenship case during SCOTUSblog’s term-in-review event.
At SCOTUSblog’s term-in-review event, National Legal Director of the ACLU Cecillia Wang speaks about arguing birthright citizenship, the term in general, and what’s next on the organization’s docket
Cecillia Wang, the national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, called her April 1 argument in Trump v. Barbara, the challenge to President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking…
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…
Trump wants court to rehear birthright citizenship case
Plus, a brief overview of our term-in-review event.
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…
Kagan and Barrett to testify before Congress
Plus, Trump has asked the court to reconsider his appeal of a $5 million jury award.