Can the Biden administration issue guidelines setting priorities in the enforcement of immigration law? Do states have standing to challenge these guidelines? And if the guidelines are unlawful, ...
Tired of reading jargon-filled law review articles with hundreds of footnotes? The perfect antidote is Painting Constitutional Law: Xavier Cortada’s Images of Constitutional Rights, edited by P...
Does the solicitor general’s office have too much influence over the Supreme Court? In “The Loudest Voice at the Supreme Court: The Solicitor General’s Dominance of Amicus Oral Argument,”...
Once considered taboo, court packing is now a topic at presidential debates, the subject of numerous op-eds and a trending hashtag on Twitter. Proponents of expanding the Supreme Court point out ...
https://www.scotusblog.com/2020/12/academic-highlight-the-past-present-and-future-of-court-packing/
Thirty years ago, President George H.W. Bush made the surprising choice to nominate the enigmatic David H. Souter to the Supreme Court. As Professor Chad Oldfather explains in a new article, “T...
In their article “How to Save the Supreme Court,” Daniel Epps and Ganesh Sitaraman argue that the Supreme Court faces a legitimacy crisis requiring it to either “radically change—or die.�...
In his concurrence in the 2018 Supreme Court decision upholding President Donald Trump’s travel ban, Trump v. Hawaii, Justice Clarence Thomas criticized the courts below for issuing injunctions...
Against all odds, a surprising number of Supreme Court justices have morphed into celebrities over the last decade. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has led the way: She is currently the subject of a ...
https://www.scotusblog.com/2019/11/academic-highlight-sherry-on-the-kardashian-court/
“By what moral right does the … Supreme Court establish controversial rules of law, some of which many people think are mistaken or even morally repugnant, and then enforce its dictates coerc...
On its face, Department of Commerce v. New York asks whether the government may add a question about citizenship status to the 2020 decennial census. But as Professor Justin Levitt explains in a ...