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…
Supreme Court allows Texas to enforce law requiring age verification and parental consent on apps
The Supreme Court on Monday allowed Texas to continue to enforce, at least for now, a law that requires app stores to verify its buyers’ ages and obtain parental consent…
The justices remained busy last summer. This year, will they actually get a break?
One year ago, the Supreme Court had just wrapped up the 2024-25 term with a series of high-profile rulings, including decisions limiting the availability of universal injunctions and upholding a…
The powerful, resilient, independent Supreme Court
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Is the Roberts court hyperopic or willfully blind?
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Looking back and looking ahead
The court just wrapped up a momentous term. Next term may also be consequential.
A tale of two justices and their children’s books
Now that the court has handed down its final opinions in argued cases for the 2025-26 term, Supreme Court observers must account not only for what has been decided but,…
The Trump term?
The Supreme Court’s 2025-26 term will likely be remembered as one of the most consequential in recent memory. This was certainly the case for President Donald Trump, who was the…
250 and the court
Don’t miss this animated explainer showing what we learned about the court this term.
An immigration law error in the court’s asylum decision threatens immigration courts
The Supreme Court’s decision last week blocking migrants stopped at the international boundary from applying for asylum turns on the text of federal immigration law. But the majority opinion reveals…
After Slaughter and Cook: future Fed fights, and maybe some midnight firings
Ninety-one years ago, when the Supreme Court held in Humphrey’s Executor v. United States that Congress could make agencies like the Federal Trade Commission “independent” from total presidential control, many…