The Supreme Court and lower federal courts had many clashes in 2025, highlighting tensions between federal judges and the ...

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That approach "improperly narrow [ed] the requisite Fourth Amendment analysis," Kagan held. "To assess whether an officer ...

In late September, we launched our expanded daily newsletter, SCOTUStoday. Since then, we’ve released 71 editions of it, ...

On Jan. 21, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case of Lisa Cook, a member of the Federal Reserve’s Board of ...

Last week the Supreme Court gave the country one notable gift in blocking the Trump administration’s efforts to deploy the National Guard to Chicago, part of a campaign of intimidation that has seen t ...

The past year was remarkably notorious for the Supreme Court. Its conservative supermajority tore and tore into the very ...

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has a remarkable record of transforming his old dissenting opinions into the new majority ...

Last week the Supreme Court gave the country one notable gift in blocking the Trump administration’s efforts to deploy the ...

Last week the Supreme Court gave the country one notable gift in blocking the Trump administration’s efforts to deploy the ...

Still, the fact that Supreme Court justices are ex-officio superior to their district court brethren does not mean that they can dismiss district court opinions without so much as a discussion. It is ...