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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: —...

Supreme Court behavior on the shadow docket

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

A plea for transparency – SCOTUSblog

Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean for the law, for lawyers...

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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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