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Trump brings ballroom dispute to the Supreme Court
2+ hour, 9+ min ago (260+ words) Sauer sought to pause Leon’s order to give the government time to file a petition for review at the Supreme Court. He also asked the justices to immediately issue an administrative stay, which would temporarily block the order while the…...
Who exactly are the “friends of the court”?
4+ hour, 49+ min ago (150+ words) From OT2016 through the beginning of OT2026, the Supreme Court made 24 amicus appointments. Of those 24 appointments, 19 (79%) were men, the vast majority of them white. And only two of the appointed amici – Amy Weil and Deepak Gupta – did not clerk at the court....
A reflection on John Roberts
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (344+ words) On this day in 1965, the Senate confirmed the appointment of Abe Fortas to the Supreme Court. Fortas ultimately served on the court for under four years, resigning in May 1969 amid a financial scandal and potential impeachment effort. Margaret Talbot, The…...
Beyond the swing justice: majority makers, dissent bridges, and coalition drift on the Supreme Court
1+ week, 1+ day ago (741+ words) Justice Amy Coney Barrett recently resisted a label that has followed several members of the current Supreme Court. Asked whether her occasional breaks with the court’s conservative majority meant she was a swing vote, Barrett said the term made her…...
A court trapped in amber
1+ week, 4+ day ago (481+ words) Apart from some scattered exceptions, the metaphor was essentially absent from judicial opinions, and it went decades without appearing in the Supreme Court. The amber metaphor, we might say, had itself become frozen in amber. So far as I am…...
Trump administration appears not to have asked Supreme Court to rehear birthright citizenship case
2+ week, 3+ day ago (228+ words) The challenges to Trump’s order then continued in the lower courts, and on Dec. 5, 2025, the justices agreed to review a ruling by a federal judge in New Hampshire striking down the order. On the final day before the court’s summer…...
Justices’ lucrative book deals deserve more scrutiny
2+ week, 4+ day ago (404+ 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. It was around the time the justices crossed the $10 million threshold in book earnings that I…...
Judicial ethics in the spotlight
3+ week, 2+ day ago (543+ words) As of this morning, the court has 25 cases scheduled for oral argument in the 2026-27 term. That’s behind where it was at this point last year (31 cases) and in 2024 (27) but ahead of the term before that (21). In case you missed it,…...
The ripple effects of the TPS ruling
3+ week, 3+ day ago (369+ words) Do you have a young Supreme Court nerd in your life? After pointing them to children’s books by the current justices, consider checking out A Supreme Friendship, a new book on Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia and the…...
Three profound constitutional provisions – and how the Supreme Court has avoided dealing with them
4+ week, 4+ hour ago (1291+ words) ...