Kate Shaw, a contributing Opinion writer, hosted a written online conversation with Will Baude, a law professor at the University of Chicago, and Stephen Vladeck, a law professor at Georgetown and the ...

Baude: On its own terms, Justice Barrett’s opinion is excellent. Sophisticated, careful, clear and correct. Giving the lower ...

Steve, you’re one of a handful of court watchers who treats what happens on the emergency docket as though it’s equally if ...

President Donald Trump said his administration would proceed with his executive order denying citizenship to children of ...

Chief Justice of the United States William Rehnquist swears in Souter as an associate justice of the Supreme Court in October 1990. President George H.W. Bush, right, who appointed Souter, was part of ...

On June 30, 1934, Adolf Hitler launched his “blood purge” of political and military rivals in Germany in what came to be ...

Harding nominated former President William Howard Taft to be chief justice of the United States ... In 1958, the U.S. Senate passed the Alaska statehood bill. In 1971, the Supreme Court ruled, 6-3, ...

Tucked away on the sixth floor of the D’Angelo Law Library are two key-protected rooms enclosed in glass, holding some of the ...

If we wanted to give an example of a court decision that brazenly ignored precedent, contorted the written law, and that ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday affirmed a law allowing American citizens or their relatives impacted by terrorist attacks abroad attributed to the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation ...

Justice Jackson Warns of 'Reputational Cost' to Supreme Court After Ruling Published Jun 20, 2025 at 5:57 PM EDT Updated Jun 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM EDT By Mandy Taheri ...

Led by Justice Neil Gorsuch (Jackson’s sometimes-partner in certain libertarian-ish side-quests), the majority ruled against Karyn Stanley, a former firefighter who had sued a Florida city over ...