Every post 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.
Tradition may have been a balancing force in “Fiddler on the Roof” but nowadays it has originalists feeling out of whack.
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.