Announcing our first SCOTUS forecasting contest
Many SCOTUSblog readers have strong opinions on not only how the Supreme Court should decide particular cases, but how it will decide such cases. Indeed, we’ve received plenty of emails…
An interview with Sen. Ted Cruz on his biography of Justice Thomas
As a seminary student, Clarence Thomas worked especially hard studying Latin. According to him, excelling in the notoriously difficult subject was a way to prove his merit to those who…
When justices drift
Upon introducing Amy Coney Barrett as his nominee to the Supreme Court in September 2020, President Donald Trump praised her as “a woman of unparalleled achievement, towering intellect, sterling credentials,…
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…
Why religion and education will be in the spotlight next term
As the back-to-school spirit sweeps across the nation, education is likely on the minds of the Supreme Court justices (especially those with kids still at home or in college). The…
Solicitor General Sauer’s SCOTUS tightrope
Three weeks after D. John Sauer was confirmed as the 49th solicitor general, law professor and podcast co-host William Baude speculated that Sauer might be “either fired or disbarred by…
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…
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…
The scope of the Supreme Court’s emergency docket
On Aug. 12, an unusual emergency docket application captured court watchers’ attention. It centered on a dog named Bruce who was scheduled to die. Read more Trump administration awaits emergency…
Who exactly are the “friends of the court”?
On Oct. 13, the Supreme Court will hear argument in Beaird v. United States, a case brought by a Texas man challenging an increase to his sentence for having a…