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Justices to apply double jeopardy principles to federal firearm offense

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Oct. 7 in Barrett v. United States. Dwayne Barrett – along with others – committed...

Does Colorado’s “conversion therapy” ban violate free speech?

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Tuesday, Oct. 7 in Chiles v. Salazar, which concerns a challenge to Colorado’s ban on...

Supreme Court to consider when lawyers can be barred from speaking to their client

On Oct. 6 in Villarreal v. Texas, the court will consider whether a trial court may prevent a criminal defense lawyer from talking...

Do state limits on malpractice actions apply in federal court?

Berk v. Choy, to be argued on Oct. 6, surely will be the Supreme Court case of the year for medical professionals. At...

Supreme Court declines to take action on Trump’s request to fire Fed governor for now

The Supreme Court on Wednesday announced that it will hear oral arguments in January on a request from the Trump administration to allow...

SCOTUStoday for Tuesday, September 30

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s investiture ceremony took place on this day in 2022, but she actually had been serving on the court for...

The state of the death penalty

As the justices make their final preparations this week for the start of the 2025-26 term, they’ll also address the latest request for...

SCOTUStoday for Monday, September 29

The leaves are changing, pumpkin bars are baking, and the justices are back at the Supreme Court. They’ll gather today for the annual...

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...

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What James Madison thought about AR-15s

A Second Opinion is a recurring series by Haley Proctor on the Second Amendment and constitutional litigation. My most recent column considered the challenges involved in...

SCOTUStoday for Friday, November 14

On this day in 1878, the Supreme Court began hearing arguments in Reynolds v. United States, on whether a federal law banning bigamy...

A justice’s most lasting legacy

Empirical SCOTUS is a recurring series by Adam Feldman that looks at Supreme Court data, primarily in the form of opinions and oral arguments, to provide...

Originalism and judicial oversight: A report from the Federalist Society’s 2025 National Lawyers Convention

Late last week, Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett took center stage at the Federalist Society’s annual gala in the nation’s capital,...

Justices evaluate limits of the compassionate-release statute

In Fernandez v. United States and Rutherford v. United States, argued on Wednesday, the Supreme Court considered what constitutes permissible grounds for a federal inmate to...
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