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Court announces cases it will hear in December, including challenges to the constitutionality of bans on AR-15s
1+ week, 2+ day 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
1+ week, 2+ 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…...
Court reform is liberal-coded nowadays. But it shouldn’t be.
1+ week, 3+ day 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
1+ week, 4+ 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, 2+ 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…...
Ballroom dispute now fully briefed
3+ week, 3+ day ago (317+ words) As we draw closer to the “long conference” on Sept. 28, our petitions page is filling up with notable petitions for review that are scheduled to be discussed. As Amy reported last year, over the past decade, the justices have granted…...