Staten Island Goes To SCOTUS The New York nomination process begins on February 24, and the maps have still not been settled. Reason · Feb 13
Bad Bunny and the SCOTUS Precedent That Denies Constitutional Rights to Puerto Ricans Plus: Is this the Supreme Court’s next big immigration case? Reason · Feb 10
Drug Dogs Should Not Be Unleashed To Authorize Apartment Searches, a SCOTUS Brief Argues The 4th Circuit held that the doorstep of an apartment did not qualify as protected "curtilage" under the Fourth Amendment. Reason · Feb 4
What We Learned From Jodi Kantor's Latest Expose About The SCOTUS NDA The Chief is now requiring all employees (but likely not the Justices) to sign Non-Disclosure Agreements, which do not seem to be working. Reason · Feb 3
Trump $10B IRS Lawsuit Hits an Already Chaotic 2026 Tax Season A new Trump lawsuit and warnings from a tax-industry watchdog point to an IRS under strain, just as millions of taxpayers begin filing their 2025 returns. Kiplinger · Feb 3
NYT To SCOTUS: "I just want them to know we're watching them." We learn fascinating insights about how the newspaper of record covers the "holy of holies of American law." Reason · Feb 3
SCOTUS Summarily Reverses Fourth Circuit, Justice Jackson votes to deny writ of certiorari without opinion KBJ's dissent from the grant of certiorari, without a written opinion, is fairly rare. Reason · Jan 26
SCOTUS Seems Inclined To Reject Hawaii's Default Rule Against Guns on Private Property Open to the Public The state requires carry permit holders to obtain advance permission before bringing firearms into businesses. Reason · Jan 20
Three Very Short SCOTUS Unanimous Opinions In One Day, But No Tariffs The Tariffs case is still cooking, but the Court is clearing the brush. Reason · Jan 20
Eyes on Gorsuch as SCOTUS Weighs Transgender Student Athlete Bans Plus: Still waiting on the tariffs case. Reason · Jan 15
Justice Sotomayor Asks "Have You Studied The People" In SCOTUS Cases. I have. Conservative litigants are vilified. Liberal litigants are celebrated. Reason · Jan 15
Transgender Athletes, Guns, and the Federal Reserve: 3 SCOTUS Cases To Watch in January The Supreme Court’s January docket is packed with big cases. Reason · Jan 8
How Trump's agenda lands at the Supreme Court in 2026 Trump has relied heavily on emergency appeals during his second term thus far. Axios · Jan 1
Refusing To Let Trump Deploy the National Guard in Chicago, SCOTUS Adds a New Wrinkle To the Debate The justices suggested the president is misinterpreting "the regular forces," a key phrase in the statute on which he is relying. Reason · Dec 24, 2025
Reason · Dec 17, 2025 A Texas News Vlogger Asks SCOTUS To Decide Whether Criminalizing Journalism Is 'Obviously Unconstitutional' This is Priscilla Villarreal’s second trip to the Supreme Court, which last year revived her First Amendment lawsuit.
Reason · Dec 17, 2025 The Lower Court Revolt Continues in Boston Judge Brian Murphy will likely be reversed by SCOTUS a third time in the same case.
Reason · Dec 9, 2025 SCOTUS Sounds Ready To Let Trump Fire FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter Plus: It's the final day of Reason's webathon.
Reason · Dec 5, 2025 The Partisanship of Justice Kagan's Abbott v. LULAC Dissent In a SCOTUS first, Justice Kagan refers to "red and blue states" and implied that redistricting was a mark of "loyalty" to Trump.
Reason · Dec 4, 2025 SCOTUS Tackles Illegal File Sharing, Internet Music Piracy, and Copyright Law Plus: It’s webathon time.
International Business Times UK · Dec 3, 2025 MAGA Turns On Costco After Retail Giant Hauls Trump To Court Over 'Unconstitutional Tariffs' Retail giant Costco sues the Trump administration for refund of emergency-imposed tariffs that sparked outrage among MAGA supporters incensed at the challenge to the President.
Fortune · Dec 2, 2025 The trade war was never going to fix our deficit Trump's tariffs won't alter the trajectory of our national debt or entitlements. For the economy's sake, the Supreme Court should end this abuse of power.
Reason · Nov 13, 2025 Why Does SCOTUS Hear So Few Second Amendment Cases? The right to keep and bear arms occupies a curious place in American legal history.
Reason · Nov 11, 2025 This Foreign Policy Precedent Might Aid Trump's Tariffs at SCOTUS For the justices, the question is just how much deference the president deserves.
Reason · Nov 11, 2025 After Nearly One Year, SCOTUS Denies Cert In Vehicle To Overrule Kagama The Court rescheduled the case seventeen times and relisted it four times.
Reason · Nov 7, 2025 Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal Non-condensing furnaces, drag shows, and master accounts.