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Supreme Court dismisses potentially significant immigration case that was scheduled for argument in October
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (149+ words) The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a case that had been scheduled for argument in October after U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer notified the court that the case is now moot and the challenger agreed that it should be removed from…...
The architecture of persuasion: United States v. Hemani
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (423+ words) With sentence-level choices, Gorsuch immediately revealed that Hemani would prevail. We read that Hemani used marijuana “a few times a week.” But based on that fact alone, the government sought to “disarm him for life.” With this windup, Gorsuch asked…...
States, civic groups urge Supreme Court to leave order in place prohibiting Trump administration from implementing parts of mail-in ballot rule
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (482+ words) A group of 23 states, led by California, and the District of Columbia went to federal court in Massachusetts, where they challenged the government’s implementation of the order. They contended that the order clashes with provisions in the Constitution that give…...
Court announces cases it will hear in December, including challenges to the constitutionality of bans on AR-15s
1+ week, 2+ day ago (325+ words) The justices will hear seven separate arguments during the six days of the December argument session, which runs from Monday, Nov. 30, until Wednesday, Dec. 2, and then again from Monday, Dec. 7, until Wednesday, Dec. 9. In International Partners for Ethical Care v. Ferguson,…...
Mail-in voting returns to the interim docket
1+ week, 3+ day ago (545+ words) If you are interested in attending The SCOTUSblog Summit: 2026 Term Preview on Wednesday, Sept. 16, in Washington, D.C., don’t forget to fill out this registration request. On Thursday, the Trump administration urged the Supreme Court to temporarily pause an order blocking the…...
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to clear the way for it to implement new mail-in voting rule
1+ week, 3+ day ago (294+ words) A group of 23 states, led by California, and the District of Columbia went to federal court in Massachusetts to challenge the government’s implementation of the order. They argued that the executive order conflicts with provisions in the Constitution that give…...
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to clear the way for new mail-in voting rule to be implemented
1+ week, 3+ day ago (294+ words) A group of 23 states, led by California, and the District of Columbia went to federal court in Massachusetts to challenge the government’s implementation of the order. They argued that the executive order conflicts with provisions in the Constitution that give…...
Court reform is liberal-coded nowadays. But it shouldn’t be.
1+ week, 4+ day ago (189+ words) Please note that SCOTUS Outside Opinions constitute the views of outside contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SCOTUSblog or its staff. In Jan. 2023, a PDF attachment appeared in my inbox: draft legislation requiring the Supreme Court to…...
How William Howard Taft transformed from a portly president to a svelte chief justice
1+ week, 5+ day ago (182+ words) As one writer observed, But enough about bathtubs. After Taft lost the presidential election of 1912 and accepted an offer to teach at Yale Law School, he began focusing once again on losing weight, returning to his proto-keto diet. Importantly, he…...
The Supreme Court’s realignment roundup: October Term 2025
2+ week, 3+ day ago (871+ words) A legal realignment has been underway for some years now, in that legal views once associated with the right are now being espoused by the left, and vice versa. This post explores that point as to the Supreme Court’s October…...