Lawsuits rarely get tossed under Rule 8. But then again, lawsuits rarely spend 85 meandering pages talking about things like ...

Last week, the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority stayed a lower court ruling that had barred immigration stops based on racial profiling in Los Angeles, a county of more than 10 million ...

Every season seems to bring us another unnecessary book from a Supreme Court justice, and this fall’s entrant is Amy Coney Barrett’s Listening to the Law. Given that the book reportedly garnered her a ...

The Department of Education is currently accepting public comments on a proposed rule change that would prevent thousands of public interest attorneys, among many other public servants, from receiving ...

One possible reason the conservative justices usually don’t explain their pro-Trump shadow docket opinions: Their pro-Trump ...

Once again, the Court issues an unexplained shadow docket order that will inflict real-world harm on people whom Supreme ...

The simplest way to predict the outcome of any Supreme Court case is, “What is the result that would be most beneficial to ...

In September 2021, about a year after she joined the Supreme Court and six months before she cast the deciding vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, Justice Amy Coney Barrett attempted to assure anxious ...

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued a dissenting opinion yesterday that did not mince words about the Supreme Court’s eager facilitation of the Trump administration’s discriminatory agenda. It was ...

In the last three months, only one judge has created a new vacancy: Montana District Judge Susan Watters, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2013, announced that she will take senior status in ...

Brian Umphress is a state court judge in Jack County, Texas, who in the year of our Lord 2025 still refuses to officiate same-sex marriages. Umphress says that he opposes Obergefell v. Hodges, the ...