Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court
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 Germany’s Federal…
9/11 and the Supreme Court
Friday marks the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. At the Supreme Court, the justices will soon consider whether to again wade into the legal fallout from…
More on Missouri’s congressional map and mail-in voting
Plus, Justice Kavanaugh will speak today at an event on 9/11.
Trump administration asks justices to decide on its appointments of acting U.S. attorneys
Arguing that a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit “threatens to inject mass confusion into five U.S. Attorney’s Offices in the Ninth Circuit that collectively…
A quick update on the Missouri congressional districting case
Hurray once again for Justice Brett Kavanaugh and his colleagues, who just hours ago benchslapped four lower-federal-court judges – one district judge and three appellate judges on the U.S. Court…
Supreme Court grants request to prevent Missouri from using congressional map expected to aid Republicans
The Supreme Court on Thursday morning paused a ruling by a federal judge in Missouri that would have allowed the state to use a new congressional map intended to give…
The architecture of persuasion: United States v. Hemani
Although some law professors make a living hiding the ball, I will repeat my thesis right up front: Good legal writers are simply good writers – strong English stylists. As…
The minoritarian difficulty
Court reform is a hot topic these days. Scholars, commentators, and politicians argue that the Supreme Court is aggrandizing its powers at the expense of Congress, undermining American democracy, and…
A new era of SCOTUSblog
Plus, the dispute over Missouri’s congressional redistricting is back at the Supreme Court.
Missouri congressional redistricting dispute returns to the Supreme Court
Just one day after Justice Brett Kavanaugh left in place a ruling by the Missouri Supreme Court that barred Missouri from using a new congressional map, intended to give Republicans…