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…banning or regulating firearms in a person’s home violated the Second Amendment. In both cases, the Supreme Court declared the laws unconstitutional. But since then, “the Supreme Court has rejected…

…sits on the court? A strong case can be made that the door to voting for Supreme Court justices has been open ever since the Supreme Court declared sovereignty over…

Late Friday, the Supreme Court rejected Texas’s election-related lawsuit against fellow states Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Georgia. The Supreme Court was right—and wrong. A week ago today, Texas filed a…

…themselves laws. In the strictest sense, the opinions rendered by the Supreme Court are binding only on the parties before it. The Supreme Court is just that, a court. It…

…Me Similarly, the scope of Texas’s theory is another indicator that it is the type of standing argument the Supreme Court has repeatedly rejected. While the Supreme Court has recognized…

…Every time Congress added a judicial circuit, they added a Supreme Court justice, so the Court expanded with the country. The changes in the Court’s membership were pragmatic, not political,…

…the Supreme Court in the event of a vacancy. “Would I do that? Of course,” he answered. Regardless of when a vacancy occurs, the Supreme Court and its effect on…

…directory” are no less moral authorities than the justices of the Supreme Court. To be clear, I’m talking about the scholarly debate over Supreme Court reform that characterized most of…

…to Intervene. The Supreme Court further held the lower court’s decision striking the Title 42 system could not take effect until the high court resolved the issue of intervention, which…

…of rifles and shotguns in a person’s home, violated the Second Amendment. In both cases, the Supreme Court declared the laws unconstitutional. Following Heller and McDonald, the Supreme Court has…

…4. This Case Was a Poor Vehicle for Supreme Court Review While refusing to hear Evans’ appeal left the lower courts in conflict, the Supreme Court’s decision makes sense for…

…Supreme Court to engage in political maneuvering. What the public expects from the court is law, not self-regarding institutionalism. What should officials do if the Supreme Court blinks? State legislatures…

…three Democrats to the state supreme court, giving the party a 5-2 majority. In a legislature, change of party control means new laws are bound to follow, but courts aren’t…

The size of the Supreme Court is fixed by statute and has been constant since 1869. But the court looks nothing like it did 150 years ago. It wades into…

…Supreme Court free-exercise jurisprudence. That jurisprudence has been stilted since the Supreme Court’s 1990 decision in Employment Division v. Smith, interpreting the Free Exercise Clause of the Constitution, which provides…

…Supreme Court has “exclusive jurisdiction” over such cases, meaning that such disputes can only be resolved by the U.S. Supreme Court. Paradoxically, however, the Supreme Court does not have to…

…formally asking the high court to review the adverse lower-court ruling. Texas has 30 days to file its response, which will argue that the Supreme Court should decline the appeal…

…members of the Pennsylvania House and Senate attempted to challenge the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision in the U.S. Supreme Court before the election, but, at the time, the justices refused…

…the court has heard these cases is sufficient, he says, to support his reading. That is a mistake. Supreme Court precedent is clear that if a court is silent on…

…the Supreme Court’s test. The majority, however, did not follow this approach. The D.C. Circuit is not alone. Courts across the nation have blatantly ignored the Supreme Court’s direction. Nearly…

…says surprisingly little about the court. Article III declares that “the judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme Court and in such inferior Courts as…

…from the crash. Religious Liberty Isn’t Worth the Supreme Court’s Time Treating some rights as more equal than others is now endemic among Supreme Court justices. Consider a case the…

Last week, the Supreme Court ruled that two of North Carolina’s congressional districts are unconstitutionally constructed based on race. In doing so, the court further clouded an already opaque line…

…manifest tenor of the Constitution void.” The court continued to evolve, however, eventually metastasizing into its present lawlessness. Despite whether one supports the policy shifts of Supreme Court decisions, the…

…was consistent with legal tradition. In the 18th and 19th centuries, Supreme Court justices individually “rode circuit,” by serving as judges in lower federal courts when the Supreme Court was…

…redistricting impasses get resolved in federal court. Hearkening back to a Wisconsin Supreme Court decision from 2002, WILL insisted that based on the Constitution, redistricting is a process that belongs…

…appeal, the Supreme Court also granted Louisiana’s cross petition to resolve that issue. Of the two questions before the Supreme Court, this latter question of whether abortion providers have standing…

…the expense of the judiciary’s independence. That includes term limits for Supreme Court justices, packing the court with new justices, and even ignoring or curtailing judicial review generally. These proposals…

The Supreme Court will decide whether the Biden administration acted lawlessly when it authorized the cancellation of hundreds of billions of dollars in student loans. The high court announced on…

…choice. In 1998, the Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld the choice program for religious schools in Jackson v. Benson. There, the court reversed the lower court, holding that the Milwaukee Parental…

…office of the office of associate justice of the supreme court shall be filled by appointment until the number of associate justices shall be reduced to six.” The Supreme Court,…

…Supreme Court so as to sidestep the ordinary course of judicial inquiry? The Supreme Court needs to be careful that it is not being manipulated. Big Tech Doesn’t Like Texas’s…

…Biden allies, have long claimed that what the Supreme Court has settled on abortion, let no man touch. “Roe and Casey are the settled law of the Supreme Court concerning…

…the 2020 election. Even after the attacks on the Supreme Court, Sen. Chuck Schumer went in March 2020 to the steps of the Supreme Court and specifically threatened Justices Neil…

…said. “But I don’t understand the connection between the opinions people disagree with and the legitimacy of the Supreme Court.” Following the Supreme Court’s rulings on several hot-button issues this past…

…courts, staffed by district court judges and Supreme Court justices in mixed panels. When their regular courts were not in session, the judges and justices would “ride circuit,” traveling around…