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Earlier this year, SCOTUSblog published the first Interim Relief Docket Stat Pack, a statistical portrait of the Supreme Court’s interim/emergency/shadow docket for the 2024-25 term. Now that the 2025-26 term…
On the 40th anniversary of Justice Antonin Scalia’s swearing-in, I wanted to reflect on one major aspect of his legacy to the American people. As many SCOTUSblog readers are undoubtedly…
Last week, the Supreme Court, without a word of explanation, allowed the Trump administration to send immigrants to countries where they have no prior contact, where they do not speak…
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On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear argument in Department of the Air Force v. Prutehi Guåhan. The question raised: Does federal law allow the U.S. Air Force to conduct…
This is the second part in a series for SCOTUSblog recounting two decades of constitutional change through the five editions of our casebook, the first published in 2008 and the…
When the president signs a bill that Congress sends him, he imbues words with the elixir of the law. Once turned into law, words became orders that structure the world…
If you read my columns closely, you know this: over the past two terms, 21 of the court’s 30 “pure” criminal law decisions have been pro-defendant or defense position. Eleven…
When the court opens its term on Monday with the blockbuster case Suncor Energy Inc. v. County Commissioners of Boulder County, the justices will have digested four principal briefs. They…