The immigration term
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court added Blanche v. Ozurumba, a case on whether someone who worked as a cook for a terrorist organization is eligible…
The October sitting so far
Plus, a bipartisan group of states and the NFL are urging SCOTUS to rule on prediction markets.
“Equal Justice Under Law” – except for Guam and the U.S. territories?
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…
A textbook 14th Amendment revolution
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…
Law and politics collide in asylum case
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…
Justices urged to leave order in place barring enforcement of Trump administration’s new policy for transgender inmates
Lawyers for a group of transgender inmates in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons on Thursday to leave in place an order by a federal judge in Washington,…
Justices emphasize comparing apples to apples in assessing investment choices for retirement funds
The argument yesterday in Anderson v. Intel Corp Investment Policy Committee showed a bench skeptical of claims that the investment choices of employee retirement funds should form an easy basis…
The first relists of the 2026-27 term
The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here. Read more Justices consider dispute…
Justices consider dispute over Air Force operations in Guam
Plus, the first relists of the 2026-27 term.
Wild card justices and the “Kagan court” for criminal cases
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…
Dispute over broadcasting rates for political ads returns to the Supreme Court
The battle over favorable advertising rates for political parties and joint fundraising committees returned to the Supreme Court on its interim docket on Thursday morning, just a little over a…