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After working 4 years as a reputed journalist, Laura wanted to explore internet-based journalism. She brought together the idea of InstaTribune to dispatch news that serves the need of readers with perfect information. She also contributes as a business news writer for the website.
Venezuelans ask Supreme Court not to allow Trump administration to end their protected status
Lawyers representing Venezuelan citizens living in the United States under a program that provides them with a safe harbor here urged the Supreme...
How birthright citizenship made it back to the Supreme Court
On Friday, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to determine the constitutionality of its birthright citizenship order. Although the administration’s decision to...
The strange case of the superfluous sentence
Some sentences reproach without a single accusatory word. “The captain was sober today” impugns by implication. The officer who logs this superfluous statement...
Supreme Court allows Trump administration to withhold billions in foreign-aid funding
The Supreme Court on Friday cleared the way for the Trump administration to withhold nearly $4 billion in foreign-aid funding. Over a dissent...
Trump urges Supreme Court to decide whether to end birthright citizenship
The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to weigh in on the legality of President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to...
SCOTUStoday for Friday, September 26
Today marks five years since President Donald Trump formally nominated Justice Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. Justice Barrett made an appearance...
Justice Barrett reflects on public scrutiny, swing votes, and recusals at SCOTUSblog Summit
Justice Amy Coney Barrett is not on social media to see critics calling her too conservative when she sides with her fellow Republican-appointed...
SCOTUStoday for Thursday, September 25
Former Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was sworn in on Sept. 25, 1981, becoming the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court. Five...
SCOTUStoday for Wednesday, September 24
On this day in 1789, President George Washington signed the Federal Judiciary Act into law, establishing the federal court system. We suggest you...
The funniest justice – SCOTUSblog
JUSTICE GORSUCH: So you have a dog in the hunt on the scope of the discovery rule — MR. EARNHARDT: Well — JUSTICE GORSUCH: —...
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Supreme Court will hear cases in January on transgender athletes, gun rights, and Trump’s firing of Fed governor
The Supreme Court will kick off 2026 with a series of arguments in blockbuster cases. In a calendar released on Wednesday afternoon, the justices announced...
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Borderlines, benchslaps, and burdens of proof
The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is...
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SCOTUStoday for Tuesday, November 11
The Supreme Court Building is closed for Veterans Day, and the justices are not hearing oral arguments. In recognition of the holiday, we...
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Trump administration and lawyers for Illinois and Chicago battle over president’s deployment of National Guard
On Monday afternoon, the Trump administration and lawyers for the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago filed additional briefs in response...
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Federal official challenges Trump administration’s power to fire her
Lawyers for Shira Perlmutter, who served as the head of the U.S. Copyright Office until she was fired earlier this year, urged the...



