Overruling Trump's Tariffs Should Be an Easy Decision for SCOTUS Plus: A love letter to the heavy metal band Slayer. Reason · Jun 5, 2025
US Supreme Court rejects Native American case against large copper mine High court declines to hear bid to block a project that an Apache Indigenous group says would destroy a religious site. Al Jazeera · May 27, 2025
What Does AI Think Will Happen In The Birthright Citizenship Cases? A guest post from Professor Seth Chandler. Reason · May 23, 2025
SCOTUS now captured by conspiracies In her new book "Lawless," law professor Leah Litman chronicles the collapse of reason at the highest court Salon · May 16, 2025
The Supreme Court May Rule for Trump on Nationwide Injunctions but Probably Not on Birthright Citizenship The president's executive order on birthright citizenship had its first test before the Supreme Court. Reason · May 15, 2025
Government Argues It's Too Much To Ask the FBI To Check the Address Before Blowing Up a Home The Department of Justice told the Supreme Court there were "policy tradeoffs that an officer makes" in determining if he should "take one more extra precaution" to make sure he's at the right house. Reason · May 9, 2025
‘Leather and bondage’: Supreme Court spars over details of LGBT+ children’s books at center of religious freedom dispute Justices spent some time discussing the content of the children’s books featuring LGBT+ storylines and characters The Independent UK · Apr 22, 2025
Alito and Thomas May Trust Trump To Follow a Court Order, but Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett Seemingly Do Not Understanding the Supreme Court's unusual late-night ruling against the Trump administration Reason · Apr 21, 2025
6 Cases That Paved the Road to Mass Incarceration In Justice Abandoned, a law professor argues that the Court got these key decisions wrong. Reason · Apr 21, 2025
Supreme Court Lets ATF Regulate (Some) DIY Firearms Kits More litigation is required to find out which kits and unfinished parts are subject to regulation. Reason · Apr 2, 2025
Are these Catholic groups religious enough to not pay taxes? The Supreme Court will decide A ruling against the charities could have far-reaching implications for the tax exemption status of religious-affiliated organizations The Independent UK · Mar 31, 2025
Michael Ramsey's "The Originalist Case Against the Insular Cases" An important new article explains why the Supreme Court's precedents denying many constitutional rights to residents of America's overseas territories are wrong. Reason · Mar 28, 2025
The 'state secrets privilege' sounds mysterious. Here's what it is and how it works The Trump administration is invoking a powerful tool in seeking to cut off a judge’s inquiry into whether it defied his order to turn around planes carrying Venezuelan migrants being deported from the United States The Independent UK · Mar 26, 2025
US Supreme Court Upholds Biden-era Regulation Of 'Ghost Guns' The US Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Biden-era federal regulation of untraceable "ghost guns" -- firearms sold in easy-to-assemble kits -- in a defeat for the powerful gun lobby. International Business Times · Mar 26, 2025
Reason · Mar 18, 2025 The Best Defense of Justice Amy Coney Barrett: No One Else Could Have Been Confirmed To Replace RBG Before The Election "Republicans couldn’t have filled the seat without Justice Barrett. Mitch McConnell knew this, and for that reason insisted that she needed to be the nominee."
Reason · Mar 13, 2025 SCOTUS DOGE: The Wall of Receipts for President Trump's Three Appointees Republicans have a problem. Since the Nixon Administration, Republican Presidents have appointed sixteen out of twenty-one Supreme Court justices. But… The post SCOTUS DOGE: The Wall of Receipts for President Trump's Three Appointees appeared first on Reason.com.
The Independent UK · Feb 21, 2025 Supreme Court won’t let Trump immediately fire whistleblower chief as legal challenge plays out Hampton Dellinger will remain at the Office of Special Counsel, for now
The Conversation · Jan 24, 2025 US Supreme Court is unabashedly liberal − in its writing style The current Supreme Court has upended historic precedent on abortion protections and drawn scrutiny for ethics conflicts, while its docket remains packed with high-profile cases set to dominate headlines in the months ahead.
Reason · Jan 17, 2025 From Daphne Keller (Stanford) on the Tiktok Case I've long much appreciated Keller's analyses, so I thought I'd pass along this one about today's TikTok decision; I disagree with parts… The post From Daphne Keller (Stanford) on the Tiktok Case appeared first on Reason.com.
Reason · Jan 17, 2025 SCOTUS Rules in Favor of TikTok Ban as Some Supporters Realize It's a Bad Idea "I cannot profess the kind of certainty I would like to have about the arguments and record before us," writes Justice Gorsuch.
Digital Camera World · Jan 17, 2025 BREAKING: The TikTok ban stands as Supreme Court denies First Amendment claims TikTok will go dark on Sunday (January 19) in the US as the Supreme Court upholds legislation requiring the app to sell
Latin Times · Jan 16, 2025 Supreme Court Justice Appears Unfamiliar with Pornhub During Free Speech Hearing: 'Is It Like the Old Playboy Magazine?' While considering a First Amendment case about access to explicit websites online, Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Samuel Alito appeared to be unfamiliar with websites such as PornHub, asking representing attorneys about the kinds of content available on such websites.
Reason · Jan 13, 2025 Maryland Cop Who Recklessly Shot a 5-Year-Old Boy Got Qualified Immunity The Cato Institute is urging the Supreme Court to take up the case and reaffirm that the liability shield does not apply to "obvious rights violations."
Reason · Jan 10, 2025 Trump's Latest Defeat Is One of Many Decisions That Suggest SCOTUS Won't Rubber-Stamp His Agenda Despite some notable wins, the president-elect's overall track record shows he cannot count on a conservative Supreme Court to side with him.
The Guardian - US · Jan 10, 2025 Donald Trump’s conviction is the latest twist in the Maga story The supreme court order may also be a harbinger of what awaits the US over the next four years: litigation that again divides the judiciary and the nation