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Independent news and analysis on the U.S. Supreme Court.
The quickest U-turn in Supreme Court history followed a court opinion used to justify actual violence on American streets. @Anastasia_esq has the story scotusblog.com/2025/07/the-su…
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On Tuesday, lawyers for North Dakota filed a brief asking the Supreme Court to leave in place a lower court decision that could weaken the federal Voting Rights Act. Learn about their arguments in Amy Howe's latest post scotusblog.com/2025/07/north-…
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Who dissented the most? The least? What were the most memorable quotes? These questions and others are answered in this new post on the term's most intense dissents scotusblog.com/2025/07/the-mo…
![SCOTUSblog's tweet card. During the 2024-25 term, the court was unanimous 42% of the time in its Opinions of the Court. In the remaining 58% of such cases, the justices’ dissents were typically […]](https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1947331865070686216/-HkMeDgr?format=jpg&name=orig)
The Supreme Court ruled for the Trump administration in a case on the universal injunctions that kept the birthright citizenship order from taking effect, but the debate is far from over. Here is a timeline of key events scotusblog.com/2025/07/where-…
![SCOTUSblog's tweet card. Three weeks after the Supreme Court ruled to limit the use of nationwide, or universal, injunctions in a case stemming from President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship, a […]](https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1946268545030995968/NqZ5iC4l?format=jpg&name=orig)
The Supreme Court's emergency docket has gone quiet — for now Amy Howe explores what could happen next scotusblog.com/2025/07/the-em…
![SCOTUSblog's tweet card. On Tuesday, Justice Sonia Sotomayor denied a bid by an Ecuadorian national to stave off his extradition to that country to face sexual abuse charges. One day earlier, the full […]](https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1945673734737559552/nXaDPFKf?format=jpg&name=orig)
A group that includes two Native American tribes is challenging a ruling that potentially weakens the Voting Rights Act. Amy Howe explains the newest entry on the emergency docket: scotusblog.com/2025/07/group-…
![SCOTUSblog's tweet card. Updated on July 16 at 12:59 pm A group of plaintiffs challenging North Dakota’s state legislative maps came to the Supreme Court on Tuesday, asking the justices to block a […]](https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1947281261032333312/RKWSpuX7?format=jpg&name=orig)
Ten Commandments laws are making a comeback. What will the Supreme Court do? scotusblog.com/2025/07/the-te…
![SCOTUSblog's tweet card. Texas recently became the third state in two years, following Louisiana and Arkansas, to pass a law requiring Ten Commandments displays in public school classrooms. Soon after — like the […]](https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1947649611960586240/vPhdaUl5?format=jpg&name=orig)
The Supreme Court has cleared the way for the Trump administration to massively reduce the size of the Department of Education Amy Howe has the context: scotusblog.com/2025/07/suprem…
![SCOTUSblog's tweet card. The Supreme Court on Monday granted the Trump administration’s request to temporarily pause an order by a federal judge in Massachusetts that would require the Department of Education to reinstate […]](https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1947934892236394496/ctKjJMb_?format=jpg&name=orig)
Three members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission have asked the Supreme Court to leave an order in place allowing them to remain in their jobs. Amy Howe explains the Trump administration moves that prompted their response: scotusblog.com/2025/07/federa…
![SCOTUSblog's tweet card. Three members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission who were fired by President Donald Trump in May urged the Supreme Court on Friday to leave in place an order by […]](https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1946308122630643712/c4_PDfe9?format=jpg&name=orig)
As Chief Justice John Roberts closes out his 20th term, the Supreme Court has entered a new phase. @AdamSFeldman dug into how the 2024 term fits into the history of the Roberts court for SCOTUSblog scotusblog.com/2025/07/how-20…
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to allow Florida to enforce a state law that makes it a crime for anyone who entered the country illegally to enter or remain in the state. Amy Howe has the context: scotusblog.com/2025/07/suprem…
![SCOTUSblog's tweet card. The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to allow Florida to enforce a state law that makes it a crime for anyone who entered the United States illegally to enter or […]](https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1945639813094256640/Wfe-uQYC?format=jpg&name=orig)
The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for the Trump administration to implement an executive order calling for mass reductions in the federal workforce. scotusblog.com/2025/07/suprem…
![SCOTUSblog's tweet card. The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for the Trump administration to implement an executive order calling for mass reductions in the federal workforce. In a brief unsigned opinion, […]](https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1946243649421144064/1VXq4Oo5?format=jpg&name=orig)
The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration's request to pause a district court order preventing the government from formulating and implementing plans to initiate large-scale reductions of the federal workforce. Justice Jackson dissented.
SCOTUS trivia: which Supreme Court dissent sent one justice into a mental health crisis and left another on the floor of his chambers with a stroke? Read my In Dissent column for @SCOTUSblog to find out... scotusblog.com/2025/07/the-di… @PacificLegal
With a single paragraph on Thursday, Justice Kagan fanned the flames of the debate over her position on the court, which were already burning bright after a term that saw her in the majority more often than five other justices. scotusblog.com/2025/07/does-j…
![SCOTUSblog's tweet card. The most surprising part of the Supreme Court’s Thursday order enabling the Trump administration to move forward with sending eight immigrants to South Sudan wasn’t the decision. After all, the […]](https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1947710820328345603/N3B3H2Hs?format=jpg&name=orig)
The dissent that broke a justice From @Anastasia_esq scotusblog.com/2025/07/the-di…
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Beginning with Skrmetti, several of last term’s biggest cases are best analyzed through the prism of one of the Constitution’s biggest ideas: birth equality, argue Akhil and Vikram Amar in a new SCOTUSblog column. scotusblog.com/2025/07/skrmet…
