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…
Justices issue orders on murder-for-hire case involving social media influencer, the role of race in seizing persons, and the execution of a Texas man claiming to be intellectually disabled
Over a dissent by Justice Samuel Alito, the Supreme Court on Monday sent the case of a Texas woman convicted of hiring someone to commit murder back to the lower…
Court reimposes conviction of man found to have killed Etan Patz
The Supreme Court on Monday morning that called for a new trial for the man convicted of the 1979 kidnapping and murder of Etan Patz, one of the first missing…
Supreme Court agrees to hear case on the ability to sue federal officials
The Supreme Court on Monday morning added one new case, involving the ability to sue federal officials for violating constitutional rights even when there is no law specifically authorizing such…
Court determines federal defendants’ appellate waivers unenforceable if a miscarriage of justice would result
In Hunter v. United States the Supreme Court held that a federal defendant’s waiver of appellate review is unenforceable if it would result in a miscarriage of justice. Although the…
A victory for the defendant in United States v. Hemani, but little guidance for the lower courts
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 Hemani: proving the reason,…
Hemani: proving the reason, not just naming it
It’s not often that opinions written by Justices Neil Gorsuch, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Samuel Alito agree on how to decide a Second Amendment case. In United States v. Hemani…
A new wave of election cases
Plus, we’re expecting an order list this morning and opinion announcements tomorrow and Thursday.
Cameras in the courtroom?
Plus, laws on “habitual drunkards” featured prominently in the court’s latest Second Amendment ruling.
Divided court bars federal district court review of non-final state-court judgments
A divided Supreme Court on Thursday clarified the scope of a doctrine limiting lower federal courts’ authority to review state-court judgments. In an opinion from Justice Sonia Sotomayor in T.M.…
Court sides with challenger to law banning drug users from possessing guns
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in United States v. Hemani that the federal government cannot prosecute a Texas man on charges that he violated a federal law barring users…