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Court grants request from Republican groups to pause ruling, for now, on political broadcasting rates
2+ hour, 57+ min ago (223+ words) The Supreme Court on Friday cleared the way for political parties and joint fundraising committees, at least for now, to receive favorable advertising rates in the upcoming midterm elections. In a four-page, unsigned opinion, the justices temporarily paused a ruling…...
Court announces cases it will hear in December, including challenges to the constitutionality of bans on AR-15s
5+ hour, 39+ min ago (325+ words) The justices will hear seven separate arguments during the six days of the December argument session, which runs from Monday, Nov. 30, until Wednesday, Dec. 2, and then again from Monday, Dec. 7, until Wednesday, Dec. 9. In International Partners for Ethical Care v. Ferguson,…...
Mail-in voting returns to the interim docket
10+ hour, 54+ min ago (545+ words) If you are interested in attending The SCOTUSblog Summit: 2026 Term Preview on Wednesday, Sept. 16, in Washington, D.C., don’t forget to fill out this registration request. On Thursday, the Trump administration urged the Supreme Court to temporarily pause an order blocking the…...
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to clear the way for it to implement new mail-in voting rule
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (294+ words) A group of 23 states, led by California, and the District of Columbia went to federal court in Massachusetts to challenge the government’s implementation of the order. They argued that the executive order conflicts with provisions in the Constitution that give…...
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to clear the way for new mail-in voting rule to be implemented
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (294+ words) A group of 23 states, led by California, and the District of Columbia went to federal court in Massachusetts to challenge the government’s implementation of the order. They argued that the executive order conflicts with provisions in the Constitution that give…...
Court reform is liberal-coded nowadays. But it shouldn’t be.
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (189+ words) Please note that SCOTUS Outside Opinions constitute the views of outside contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SCOTUSblog or its staff. In Jan. 2023, a PDF attachment appeared in my inbox: draft legislation requiring the Supreme Court to…...
How William Howard Taft transformed from a portly president to a svelte chief justice
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (182+ words) As one writer observed, But enough about bathtubs. After Taft lost the presidential election of 1912 and accepted an offer to teach at Yale Law School, he began focusing once again on losing weight, returning to his proto-keto diet. Importantly, he…...
The Supreme Court’s realignment roundup: October Term 2025
1+ week, 10+ hour ago (871+ words) A legal realignment has been underway for some years now, in that legal views once associated with the right are now being espoused by the left, and vice versa. This post explores that point as to the Supreme Court’s October…...
The many layers of Landor
1+ week, 2+ day ago (186+ words) As it turned out, Landor has many layers. But isn’t that what Congress did with RLUIPA? Louisiana’s prisons receive federal funds on the conditions that they operate in ways that do not impose unnecessary “substantial burden[s]” on prisoners’ “religious…...
SCOTUS again asked to address Ten Commandments in schools
1+ week, 2+ day ago (493+ words) On Friday, Chief Justice John Roberts issued a temporary order, known as an administrative stay, allowing construction on the new White House ballroom to continue for now. The court could release its decision in the interim docket case at any…...