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Trump administration notified the Supreme Court that Genalo v. Black, an immigration case set to be argued in October, was now moot – that is, no longer a live controversy – and should be dismissed ...

People complain that the current Supreme Court is a partisan institution, with the six Republican appointees deciding cases based on their partisan beliefs. But two recent and significant cases on the ...

The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to clear the way for it to use the Department of Homeland Security’s Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements database to identify ...

Preemption issues constantly come to the Supreme Court. Yet it is difficult to find a pattern in the court’s handling of them. Some seem to be explainable on ideological grounds, but others don’t. For ...

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This is the sixth of seven introductory articles on the relevance for constitutional law and the Supreme Court of the “born free and equal” clauses, which appeared in the Declaration of Independence ...

Ever since the Supreme Court formally recognized the power of judicial review in the landmark 1803 case of Marbury v. Madison, the be-all and end-all on constitutionality has been the Supreme Court.

In a recent SCOTUSblog article, law professor Josh Blackman proposed that the chief justice farm out to his colleagues his roles of presiding at oral argument and assigning opinions when in the ...

All of this is why it’s of great significance for Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority in last summer’s decision holding that President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship executive ...

California, joined by a group of 22 states and the District of Columbia, urged the Supreme Court on Wednesday to leave in place a ruling by a federal judge in Boston that prohibits the Trump ...

The annual SCOTUSblog Summit, held on Wednesday at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center, featured a variety of panels on several different topics concerning the Supreme Court.