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The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to clear the way for it to use the Department of Homeland Security’s Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements database to identify ...
This is the sixth of seven introductory articles on the relevance for constitutional law and the Supreme Court of the “born free and equal” clauses, which appeared in the Declaration of Independence ...
In a recent SCOTUSblog article, law professor Josh Blackman proposed that the chief justice farm out to his colleagues his roles of presiding at oral argument and assigning opinions when in the ...
Ever since the Supreme Court formally recognized the power of judicial review in the landmark 1803 case of Marbury v. Madison, the be-all and end-all on constitutionality has been the Supreme Court.
Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. (Geoff Livingston/Getty Images) I wanted to begin this series for SCOTUSblog by discussing some fundamentals (and fundamental ...
Less appreciated is that this process began far earlier, and in connection with presidential authority in foreign affairs. That story matters. For one thing, it established the template for the ...
All of this is why it’s of great significance for Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority in last summer’s decision holding that President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship executive ...
This is the eighth and final piece in a series on what I believe the court can, and should, do better. *** Every year, each justice hires four law clerks. Under the current practi ...
Today, SCOTUSblog and Johns Hopkins University are coming together to preview the cases and questions that will shape the 2026-27 Supreme Court term. This event, which is presented by Cooley, will ...
The annual SCOTUSblog Summit, held on Wednesday at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center, featured a variety of panels on several different topics concerning the Supreme Court.