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States, civic groups urge Supreme Court to leave order in place prohibiting Trump administration from implementing parts of mail-in ballot rule
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (482+ words) A group of 23 states, led by California, and the District of Columbia went to federal court in Massachusetts, where they challenged the government’s implementation of the order. They contended that the order clashes with provisions in the Constitution that give…...
Court grants request from Republican groups to pause ruling, for now, on political broadcasting rates
1+ week, 1+ day 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…...
Mail-in voting returns to the interim docket
1+ week, 1+ day 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 new mail-in voting rule to be implemented
1+ week, 2+ day 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…...
How William Howard Taft transformed from a portly president to a svelte chief justice
1+ week, 3+ day 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…...
Justices navigate rising security threats
3+ week, 1+ day ago (417+ words) Justice James Wilson died on this day in 1798. This summer, Jesse Wegman published a biography of Wilson, highlighting, among other things, his time in debtors’ prison. Mark Walsh, ABA Journal Suzanne Monyak, Bloomberg Law Adam Liptak, The New York Times…...
Who exactly are the “friends of the court”?
4+ week, 1+ day ago (150+ words) From OT2016 through the beginning of OT2026, the Supreme Court made 24 amicus appointments. Of those 24 appointments, 19 (79%) were men, the vast majority of them white. And only two of the appointed amici – Amy Weil and Deepak Gupta – did not clerk at the court....
A reflection on John Roberts
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (344+ words) On this day in 1965, the Senate confirmed the appointment of Abe Fortas to the Supreme Court. Fortas ultimately served on the court for under four years, resigning in May 1969 amid a financial scandal and potential impeachment effort. Margaret Talbot, The…...
Beyond the swing justice: majority makers, dissent bridges, and coalition drift on the Supreme Court
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (741+ words) Justice Amy Coney Barrett recently resisted a label that has followed several members of the current Supreme Court. Asked whether her occasional breaks with the court’s conservative majority meant she was a swing vote, Barrett said the term made her…...
Trump administration appears not to have asked Supreme Court to rehear birthright citizenship case
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (228+ words) The challenges to Trump’s order then continued in the lower courts, and on Dec. 5, 2025, the justices agreed to review a ruling by a federal judge in New Hampshire striking down the order. On the final day before the court’s summer…...