Showing 1–50 of 93 items published in January 2026, most recent first.
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on April 1 in the challenge to President Donald Trump’s efforts to end birthright citizenship – that is, the guarantee of citizenship to virtually everyone born in the United States.
The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will hear argument in Salazar v. Paramount Global, on the interpretation of a federal law passed in 1988 intended to protect videotape rental histories from public disclosure.
Looking for some Supreme Court-themed weekend reading? Consider Robert H. Jackson: A Life in Judgment, a new book on former Justice Robert H. Jackson that’s been highlighted in The Washington Post and Moment Magazine in the past week.
Lawyers for the state of California on Thursday urged the Supreme Court to leave in place a new congressional map intended to give Democrats five additional seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.
On Nov. 5, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in the challenges to President Donald Trump’s authority to impose broad tariffs through a series of executive orders that he issued in 2025. As is often the case with high-profile cases, there is enormous interest in how the court will rule.
Yesterday was Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s birthday. Barrett, now 54, is the youngest current justice. Plus, a reminder: we’re hiring! We’re looking for an editor to oversee a new daily newsletter for commercial litigators and corporate counsel that highlights circuit court decisions, relists, denials, en banc grants, and notable dissents.
When the justices hold their private conference on Friday, Feb. 20, the petitions for review that they are slated to consider will include one from President Donald Trump, asking the Supreme Court to weigh in on the 2023 verdict against him in a civil suit brought by E. Jean Carroll.
The Supreme Court has made a mess of the law concerning the Second Amendment.
For years, scholars and commentators have tracked the Supreme Court’s merits docket through detailed statistical analyses. SCOTUSblog’s Stat Pack has become an essential resource for understanding how the justices decide cases after full briefing and oral argument.
Justice Louis Brandeis, the first Jewish justice, was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Woodrow Wilson on this day in 1916. SCOTUSblog executive editor Zach Shemtob recently gave a Jewish Study Center presentation on the history of Jewish justices and what the future could hold.
Friday, Jan. 9, was the Supreme Court’s first announced opinion day of the term, and the excitement that typically surrounds that occasion was heightened by rumors that the court would release its ruling on President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
Today is Chief Justice John Roberts’ birthday. Born in 1955, Roberts has served on the Supreme Court since 2005. SCOTUS Quick Hits On Monday, the court released an order list and announced that it will hear argument in Salazar v. Paramount Global, on the scope of the Video Privacy Protection Act.
The Supreme Court on Monday morning agreed to weigh in on the interpretation of a federal law, enacted in the wake of Judge Robert Bork’s unsuccessful Supreme Court confirmation hearings, intended to protect videotape rental histories from public disclosure.
Former Supreme Court Justice Joseph McKenna was sworn in on this day in 1898.
The Trump administration on Thursday urged the Supreme Court to block the new congressional map adopted by California voters in November.
Former Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart was born on this day in 1915. Although a distinguished jurist, he is perhaps best known for using the phrase “I know it when I see it” (see the fuller quote below) in describing how difficult it is to define “hard core pornography” for the purposes of policing the limits of the freedom of expression.
Tuesday’s argument in M&K Employee Solutions v Trustees of the IAM National Pension Fund showed a bench skeptical of forcing actuaries to use out-of-date assumptions when they work on pension plans.
It is a crisply cold winter morning in Washington as people filed into the Supreme Court for Trump v. Cook, about President Donald Trump’s effort to remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook.
We’re on the precipice of the Supreme Court’s four-week winter recess. Only time will tell if the next month will be a quiet one or if we’ll get additional rulings. Plus, a reminder: we’re hiring!
Updated on Jan. 22 at 6:32 p.m. The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here. On Friday, the Supreme Court granted what may be its last grants of the October 2025-26 term.
Updated at 3:45 p.m. on Jan. 21 The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared likely to leave Lisa Cook, a member of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, on the job while her challenge to President Donald Trump’s attempt to fire her continues.
Updated on Jan. 22 at 5:05 p.m. In December, the Supreme Court allowed Texas to use a new congressional map enacted to give Republicans five additional seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, blocking a lower court’s ruling that the map unconstitutionally sorted voters based on race.
Updated on Jan. 21 at 7:20 p.m. As the justices turn at last to releasing opinions in argued cases, it should be no surprise that they start with unanimous decisions like Berk v. Choy.
Yesterday’s majority opinion by Brett Kavanaugh in Ellingburg v. United States well may be the shortest of the term – less than five pages for a unanimous court holding that the ex post facto clause of the Constitution applies to sanctions imposed in federal criminal proceedings under the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act.
This morning, the Supreme Court will hear argument in a closely watched dispute over President Donald Trump’s firing of Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. We will be live blogging the argument beginning at 9:30 a.m. EST. Plus, a reminder: we’re hiring!
We live blogged as the court heard oral argument in Trump v. Cook, on President Donald Trump’s effort to remove Lisa Cook, a member of the Federal Reserve Board of […]
Updated on Jan. 21 at 11:10 a.m. The Supreme Court on Tuesday morning turned down several petitions for review challenging the ban on the possession of guns by people who have previously been convicted of felonies.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared to side with a group of Maui gun owners in their challenge to a Hawaii law restricting their ability to bring their guns onto private property that is open to the public.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared to side with a group of Maui gun owners in their challenge to a Hawaii law restricting their ability to bring their guns onto […]
The Supreme Court on Tuesday held in Coney Island Auto Parts Unlimited, Inc. v. Burton that litigants do not have unlimited time to challenge judgments as void.
Welcome to the Supreme Court’s third opinion day in less than two weeks. We will be live blogging beginning at 9:30 a.m. EST. Plus, a reminder: we’re hiring!
We were live as the court released its opinions in Berk v. Choy, Ellingburg v. United States, and Coney Island Auto Parts Unlimited, Inc. v. Burton.
In Barrett v. United States, the court held in an opinion by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson that the Constitution’s double jeopardy clause prohibits a defendant from receiving two convictions for a single act that violates two closely related federal firearm offenses, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A)(i) and 18 U.S.C. § 924(j).
The Supreme Court on Friday afternoon added four new cases, on topics ranging from the Fourth Amendment to federal preemption, to its Oral Argument Docket for the 2025-26 term. The announcement came as part of a list of orders released from the justices’ private conference earlier in the day.
The Supreme Court will hear oral argument on Wednesday in yet another battle over the president’s power to remove the heads of independent agencies created by Congress.
Next week’s argument in M&K Employee Solutions v. Trustees of the IAM National Pension Fund presents a technical question of great monetary significance – how to calculate what a business owes if it withdraws from a multi-employer pension plan.