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Antonin Scalia Would’ve Hated Today’s Supreme Court Security Restrictions

Today’s security restrictions would have put the brakes on one of Scalia’s favorite pastimes. The post Antonin Scalia Would’ve Hated Today’s Supreme Court Security Restrictions app...

Justice Scalia’s Message To Law School Faculty

Josh Blackman (South Texas), Justice Scalia’s Message To Law School Faculty: I became a law professor in the fall of 2012. In January 2013, I attended the Federalist Society facult...

Justice Alito: 'Practical Originalism' and Its Facile Critics

He explains his interpretive method and defends it against a hostile biographer-and his high-school English teacher.

Realizing Scalia’s vision: state originalism centers as legal civics education

It is no secret that, thanks to Justice Antonin Scalia, originalism is on the rise. This is true not only on the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary in general, but among state...

Fired U.S. Attorney In Washington Files Case That Should Overrule Whatever Remains Of Morrison v. Olson

Justice Scalia was right. Federal courts should not be allowed to appoint federal prosecutors who cannot be fired.

In A Year Of High-Stakes SCOTUS Decisions, Justice Alito Steals The Show

People are finally starting to appreciate how instrumental Justice Alito is to many of the Supreme Court's consequential decisions.

What happened between Alito and Sotomayor?

The Supreme Court is handing down major opinions at a rapid clip, but even with some of the biggest decisions yet to come there are signs of tension between the justices. One hi...

Samuel Alito Emerges as Most Pro-Trump Justice

Wall Street Journal: “The 76-year-old justice has emerged in the Trump era as the member of the court who is most likely to give voice to the populism and cultural grievances assoc...

What happened between Alito and Sotomayor?

The Supreme Court is handing down major opinions at a rapid clip, but even with some of the biggest decisions yet to come there are signs of tension between the justices. One hi...

The case for Callais

This publication has been inundated with essays by academics critical of Louisiana v. Callais, but has not published a single one in defense of it. So I decided to take it on in my...

Clarence Thomas Goes Nuclear on SCOTUS Majority Over Birthright Citizenship Ruling

Clarence Thomas Doubled Down on Presidential Power

The conservative justice pushed for greater executive authority even in cases in which Trump won.

Notable concurring opinions from this term

Sometimes concurring opinions of justices add little to what is in the court’s decision. Other times, however, they take a very different approach and urge a major change in the la...

Nine justices, nine styles

Please note that SCOTUS Outside Opinions constitute the views of outside contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SCOTUSblog or its staff.By my count, the 58 ora...

How Justice Samuel Alito stands out

Plus, a closer look at summer order lists.

Some Supreme Court Justices Are More Political Than Others

The recently ended term provides an interesting laboratory for examining how the various justices vote.

Justice Alito Gives No Indication He’s Ready to Step Down From the Supreme Court

This term, Justice Alito delivered major wins for conservatives on voting rights, immigration and guns. He’s given no indication that he’s ready to step down.

Liberal Justice Elena Kagan says the Supreme Court is not a rubber stamp for Trump

BELLEVUE — The U.S. Supreme Court may be deeply conservative, but it is not simply a rubber stamp for President Donald Trump, Justice Elena Kagan said Thursday.

Liberal Justice Elena Kagan says the Supreme Court is not a rubber stamp for Trump

BELLEVUE, Wash. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court may be deeply conservative, but it is not simply a rubber stamp for President Donald Trump, Justice Elena Kagan said Thursday. Kagan,...

A Typical Case of American Blind Justice

The judge wasn't going to look at the twenty seven eight-by-ten color glossy pictures.

Dear Mike Johnson, be careful what you ask for

For decades, political conservatives have been clamoring for “originalist” and “textualist” interpretations of the U.S. Constitution because they want to conserve the frozen-in-tim...

A Scalia letter, birthright citizenship's long game and an illegal dating problem

A newly surfaced Scalia letter defends his landmark religious-liberty ruling, conservatives vow to fight the birthright citizenship decision, and South Florida women warn of illega...

Sotomayor Skewers Fellow Justices For Giving Trump 'Far Greater Power Than Ever Before'

In a 49-page dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor slammed the majority's decision to undo 90 years of judicial precedent, writing, "chaos will follow."