SCOTUS Deep Dive

Chief Justice Roberts issued a one-sentence administrative stay Friday, halting lower-court orders that required congressional approval for the...

The Justice Department will ask the Supreme Court to review a 2nd Circuit ruling that disqualified Trump appointee John Sarcone as acting U.S....

Court packing risks turning the Supreme Court into a political prize that parties manipulate with each election cycle.

• Historical warning: FDR's...

A federal district court became the first post-Dobbs to hold the Constitution protects a health-preserving abortion right under the Due Process...

Threats of structural reform and tactical litigation choices both aim to steer Supreme Court outcomes. FDR’s 1937 Court-packing push coincided with...

Modern justices face constant threats unlike earlier eras.

• Armored travel now standard with personal details, per Kagan and Barrett's funding...

Texas families have petitioned the Supreme Court to block Senate Bill 10, which requires Ten Commandments displays in public school classrooms from...

A pending petition in Pena v. City of Los Angeles asks the justices to decide whether the Fifth Amendment requires compensation when police destroy...

The Fourth Circuit's ruling in Grant v. Belangia holds that South Carolina's law giving voters over 65 easier mail-in access than younger voters...

A federal judge in Idaho ruled that the 14th Amendment protects a narrow right to abortion when pregnancy threatens a patient's physical or mental...

Brenda Andrew, Oklahoma's only woman on death row, will petition the Supreme Court within 90 days, arguing her 2004 conviction was tainted by...

Two pieces frame the White House ballroom litigation differently but reach the same underlying tension.

• Procedural angle: The administration’s...

Brittany McFarland, an Austin-area Christian mother, welcomes Texas's Ten Commandments displays in her kindergartner's classroom, viewing them as...

A survey of 1,455 adults reveals limited public awareness of the Supreme Court's emergency docket, with just 36% saying they had heard of quick...

Florida Republicans contend that the Census Bureau's statistical imputation for the 2020 count strays from the Constitution's "'actual Enumeration'"...

A dog named Bruce, facing euthanasia after biting incidents, filed a last-minute Supreme Court application seeking only to stay alive during appeals....

The filings stress that Congress alone controls federal property changes and spending under the Constitution, rejecting the administration's...

Texas families petition the Supreme Court to review whether public school Ten Commandments displays violate the Establishment Clause, after the 5th...

The Supreme Court is expected to rule any day on the Trump administration's emergency request to enforce its mail-in ballot restrictions, with the...

• Texas families petitioned the Supreme Court to strike down the law, arguing it violates the Establishment Clause under the 1980 Stone v. Graham...