The measures would expand conflicts of interest rules that apply to the executive branch to the judiciary and require justices and judges to put certain financial assets in a blind trust.” “The ...
One of SCOTUSblog’s most popular features is our live blogging during major oral arguments and opinion hand down days. Throughout these live chats, our moderators (led by Amy) not only provide what’s ...
Plus, the justices added a case involving a seized plane and a six-pack of beer to next term’s oral argument docket.
And the decisions give no reason to believe that a substantial number of justices have misgivings about the Bruen approach. While Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson stated in a concurring opinion in Hemani ...
Bruen, the Supreme Court held that modern gun laws must be “consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation” to survive a Second Amendment challenge. Under that newly announced ...
The Supreme Court on Monday morning added a new case to its oral argument docket for the 2026-27 term. As part of a regularly scheduled summer order list, the justices agreed to review Jouppi v.
Everything’s bigger in Texas – even the number of people who brought a case that was ultimately argued before the Supreme Court during the 2025-26 term. A SCOTUSblog analysis of the 35 argued cases ...
In previous articles, I explored two of the biggest unanswered questions in the Second Amendment space: Who are “the people,” ...
A new Washington Post-Ipsos poll found that “[m]ore than half of Americans disapprove of how the Supreme Court is doing its job, while 46 percent believe that the court is rulin ...
Some provisions of the Constitution enjoy far more attention than others. At the Supreme Court, for example, it is a rare term that doesn’t have a case involving the First, Second, or Fourth ...
One of the more controversial topics concerning the Supreme Court is how attuned justices should be to public opinion. An even more fundamental question, however, is how closely p ...
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett deserve high praise for the pivotal role they played at the end of the just-concluded term in two key cases. One is Trump v. Barbara, the ...