Trump’s original petition for review was first distributed for the justices’ Feb. 20, 2026, conference, but the court repeatedly rescheduled it, finally considering it at the June 25 conference and ...
Today is retired Justice Anthony Kennedy’s 90th birthday. Kennedy joined the Supreme Court in 1988 and retired in 2018.
By now, you have probably read a great deal about the Supreme Court’s emergency docket – and a fair amount about the justices who disagree with its orders. Over the past year, in this space alone, I ...
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 ...
In previous articles, I explored two of the biggest unanswered questions in the Second Amendment space: Who are “the people,” ...
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 ...
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.
The Supreme Court’s decision about President Donald Trump’s attempt to narrow access to birthright citizenship left no doubt that a majority of justices agree it’s illegal. But two justices, Clarence ...
Approximately two weeks after the final opinion of the 57 argued cases decided by the Supreme Court in the October 2025-26 Term was filed, this column presents an overview of the “pure” criminal law ...
In the first appearances by members of the Supreme Court before Congress in seven years, Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett testified on Tuesday in both the House of Representatives and the ...
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 ...