Enhance the Supreme Court minority’s procedural powers
This is the sixth piece in a series on what I believe the court can, and should, do better. Read more Solicitor General Sauer’s SCOTUS…
The Supreme Court of Israel
Welcome to SCOTUSblog’s recurring series in which we interview experts on different supreme courts around the world and how they compare with our own. Today’s column focuses on the Supreme…
The Supreme Court’s realignment roundup: October Term 2025
A legal realignment has been underway for some years now, in that legal views once associated with the right are now being espoused by the left, and vice versa. This…
Government urges SCOTUS to deny 9/11 petitions
Plus, would cameras in the courtroom boost public trust?
Fed Governor Lisa Cook responds to Trump administration’s letter stating that it is “considering” her removal
A lawyer for Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook told the White House on Wednesday that allegations Cook committed mortgage fraud before joining the Fed are “unfounded and untrue.” As a…
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…
What the public thinks of the Supreme Court
The Marquette Law School Poll, which I direct, conducts six polls each year that track approval of the court and ask for the public’s view on the outcome of cases.…
The ripple effects of SCOTUS’ mail-in voting decision
Plus, a man was arrested after a guillotine was parked next to the Supreme Court.
The orders docket, why it matters, and this term’s criminal law orders
The Supreme Court divides its website for official writings by the justices into two main parts: “Opinions of the Court” and “Opinions Relating to Orders.” (The court also maintains another…
The many layers of Landor
In recent years, the Supreme Court’s late June grand finale, headline-grabbing, crash-the-SCOTUSblog-live-feed decision-dumps have generally included salient church-state or religious-liberty cases. In 2021, for example, a unanimous court sustained, in…
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…