2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (423+ words) With sentence-level choices, Gorsuch immediately revealed that Hemani would prevail. We read that Hemani used marijuana “a few times a week.” But based on that fact alone, the government sought to “disarm him for life.” With this windup, Gorsuch asked…...

2+ week, 3+ 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…...

2+ week, 2+ day 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…...

3+ day, 42+ min ago   (287+ words) York Times Gregg Costa, The Wall Street Journal By Akhil Amar & Vikram Amar Missionaries of Saint John the Baptist, Inc. v....

3+ week, 2+ 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, 4+ 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…...

4+ week, 2+ day 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....

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (317+ words) but repeatedly attempts to fight the battle again? Akhil Amar and Andy Lipka reflect on this question as they...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (149+ words) The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a case that had been scheduled for argument in October after U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer notified the court that the case is now moot and the challenger agreed that it should be removed from…...

2+ week, 5+ 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…...