Justice William O. Douglas announced his retirement on this day in 1975, more than 36 years into his tenure on the Supreme Court. Douglas is the ...

The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is ...

On Friday, the Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to use a modified version of the Department of Homeland Security’s Systematic ...

Over the summer, Judge Joshua Divine of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri issued an unusual (to put it mildly) “sentencing ...

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

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Analysis of the Supreme Court’s decisions most often focuses on the opinions and votes of the justices. Sometimes, though, strategic decisions by lawyers ...

As a new school year gets underway, law students might expect to soon be called upon to answer a seemingly simple question: What did the Supreme Court hold ...

Q: Why does the Supreme Court’s term begin on the first Monday in October. And can that be changed?A: Under a federal law first passed in 1916, Congress ...

This is my first article for SCOTUSblog, and I want to explain why I have chosen the header Born Free and Equal for my column. The phrase is derived from ...