Professors Akhil and Vikram Amar have responded to my recent post arguing that the 14th Amendment does not grant automatic ...

The text is the law, and it is the text that must be observed,” Justice Antonin Scalia famously insisted at page 22 of a ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared likely to uphold the federal government’s policy of systematically turning back asylum ...

Controlling Opinions is a recurring series by Richard Re that explores the interaction of law, ideology, and discretion at ...

The Supreme Court announced last week that it will hear argument in late April on the Trump administration’s effort to remove ...

Citizens United v. FEC, a major case on political spending, was argued for the first time on this day in 2009. After reargument approximately six months later, the court in […] ...

Issue: Whether the court should " [I]ssue preliminary and permanent injunctions ordering California and Washington and their ...

In a list of orders released on Monday morning, the Supreme Court reversed a ruling by a federal appeals court, holding that ...

Issue: Whether Tex. Elec. Code § 86.0105, which makes it a crime “to compensate another person for assisting voters” who vote ...

The Supreme Court on Monday appeared ready to overturn a Mississippi law that allows mail-in ballots to be counted as long as ...

Nuts and Bolts is a recurring series by Stephen Wermiel providing insights into the mechanics of how the Supreme Court works.

Good morning, and welcome to the March argument session, which includes the argument on birthright citizenship on Wednesday, April 1. This Thursday, March 26, SCOTUSblog is teaming up with Briefly […] ...