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Justices consider challenge to federal criminal sentencing guidelines
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that could change how much latitude judges have to determine sentencing in…
Supreme Court offers few clues in major environmental case’s outcome
In this analysis, journalist Mark Sherman breaks down arguments in the first case of the Supreme Court’s current term. Sherman…
Supreme Court to start new term with major environmental case
On the first Monday in October, the Supreme Court will begin its new term with one of the biggest cases on its docket: a lawsuit…
Supreme Court allows Trump voting executive order to move forward pending challenges
In an unsigned per curiam opinion, the Supreme Court has allowed President Donald Trump’s executive order about mail-in ballots…
Proposed Supreme Court changes back in the headlines
Once again, the subject of changing how many justices sit on the Supreme Court—and for how long—is in the news.
Idea of changing the number of Supreme Court justices is hardly new
Recent talk about the idea of expanding the Supreme Court after mid-term elections has resurfaced an old debate about the…
Constitutional Voices: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
A number of aphorisms have enshrined Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. in the American constitutional canon and his succinct…
The Supreme Court’s emergency docket steadily draws more attention
Not all of the Supreme Court’s significant actions come in the form of merits case decisions after full briefing and oral…
Constitutional Voices: John Marshall
Chief Justice John Marshall, in the words of longtime friend and colleague Justice Joseph Story, was "the expounder of the…
Does the War Powers Resolution debate take on a new context in the Iran conflict?
The recent military actions in Iran by Israel and the United States has reignited a simmering constitutional debate: the ability…
