SCOTUS Deep Dive

The Supreme Court upheld state bans on transgender girls in female sports but issued a narrow ruling that leaves many policies untouched.

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• Dissents range from full opinions to bare "would grant/deny" notations
• Half of 386 objections since 2000-01 are mere votes, not explanations
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Two outlets spotlight sharply different facets of the term's constitutional shifts.

• Mackinac Center centers on unitary executive wins in Trump v....

The Court granted certiorari in Suncor Energy v. Boulder County on February 23, 2026, directing the parties to brief whether statutory and Article...

Justice Kagan portrayed the Court as no "rubber stamp" for Trump, stressing major losses on tariffs and birthright citizenship that checked executive...

Signs of friction among the justices surfaced publicly this week as the Court released major immigration rulings.

• Alito-Sotomayor clash: After...

Senate Republicans questioned Sotomayor far more aggressively on abortion in 2009 than Ginsburg in 1993 because the party had unified around opposing...

Trump’s petition for rehearing in the E. Jean Carroll $5 million case was distributed to the justices after the June 29 denial of cert.

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The Supreme Court follows a tightly structured, mostly private routine to decide cases.

• Agenda setting: Losers in lower courts file cert petitions;...

The Justice Department has updated its religious liberty guidance for parental rights and schools to reflect recent Supreme Court precedent clarifying...

The Supreme Court overruled its 91-year-old Humphrey’s Executor precedent, striking down limits on firing FTC commissioners and giving presidents...

The Supreme Court struck down Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship in a 6-3 ruling, with Chief Justice Roberts writing that the 14th...

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