1+ hour, 37+ min 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…...

1+ day, 1+ hour 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…...

6+ day, 2+ hour 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…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (186+ words) As it turned out, Landor has many layers. But isn’t that what Congress did with RLUIPA? Louisiana’s prisons receive federal funds on the conditions that they operate in ways that do not impose unnecessary “substantial burden[s]” on prisoners’ “religious…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (493+ words) On Friday, Chief Justice John Roberts issued a temporary order, known as an administrative stay, allowing construction on the new White House ballroom to continue for now. The court could release its decision in the interim docket case at any…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (638+ words) SCOTUSblog Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Trump administration asks justices to consider key border policy The Trump administration on Monday asked the Supreme Court to review a ruling by a federal appeals court…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (496+ words) Justice Lewis Powell died on this day in 1998. During his time on the Supreme Court, Powell was considered a moderate, leaning “to the right on some key issues and to the left on others.” CNN recently described him as one…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (417+ words) Justice James Wilson died on this day in 1798. This summer, Jesse Wegman published a biography of Wilson, highlighting, among other things, his time in debtors’ prison. Mark Walsh, ABA Journal Suzanne Monyak, Bloomberg Law Adam Liptak, The New York Times…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago   (317+ words) As we draw closer to the “long conference” on Sept. 28, our petitions page is filling up with notable petitions for review that are scheduled to be discussed. As Amy reported last year, over the past decade, the justices have granted…...

2+ week, 5+ day 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…...