SCOTUS
15 briefs
Tariffs Struck Down, Tariffs Coming Back
The Supreme Court ruled Trump's emergency tariff powers unconstitutional. The administration is already routing around the ruling.
The Justice Who Said What the Court Won't
Ketanji Brown Jackson's Yale speech against the shadow docket is not just dissent: it is a warning about what the Court has already become.
SCOTUS Is About to Rule on Birthright Citizenship. The Market Says 94% Chance They Strike It Down.
The Supreme Court heard final arguments on Trump's executive order redefining citizenship. The constitutional question is live. The outcome almost certainly isn't.
The Case That Could Let Big Telecom Ignore Privacy Fines
The Supreme Court hears argument April 21 on whether AT&T and Verizon had a right to a jury trial before the FCC fined them $104 million for selling customer location data. The answer could gut every federal agency's ability to enforce its rules.
The Court Ordered $133 Billion Back. Now What?
The Supreme Court struck down Trump's IEEPA tariffs. A federal court ordered refunds. Trump is already testing a workaround using a different statute. The constitutional crisis is just starting.
Who Is an American
SCOTUS heard two hours of argument on birthright citizenship. Conservative justices were skeptical of Trump. A ruling isn't the end of the story.
The Shadow Docket Catches Up
A divided appeals court sent the DOGE-Social Security data case back to district court. In the 89 pages of competing opinions, a Supreme Court justice's original warning about unfettered data access looks more prescient than when she wrote it.
The $166 Billion Waiting Room
The Supreme Court ordered a tariff refund. The money doesn't exist yet. Meanwhile Trump has already replaced the struck-down tariffs with a new legal theory a trade court is currently shredding.
Tariff Whack-a-Mole
After SCOTUS killed the IEEPA tariffs, Trump pivoted to Section 122. Now that too is before a federal court, and the question is whether any statutory authority can sustain his trade policy.
The Tariff That Outlived Its Legal Theory
Trump's 10% global tariff is standing on a 1974 law the Supreme Court already gutted, and a panel of judges just told him so.
SCOTUS Is About to Strike Down the Birthright Citizenship Order. That Is Not the Hard Part.
The justices are almost certain to rule against Trump. The question they are really debating is how far the 14th Amendment's citizenship clause reaches, and the answer will outlast this case.
Sotomayor Says the Supreme Court Did This to Itself
The Trump administration has filed 30 emergency SCOTUS applications. The court has ruled in its favor more than 80% of the time. Sotomayor's diagnosis: the conservative majority created the incentive by treating temporary orders as permanent wins.
SCOTUS Will Almost Certainly Strike Down the Birthright Order. The Reasoning May Be Worse Than the Order.
Polymarket gives Trump's birthright citizenship executive order a 4.9% chance of surviving. But Justice Sotomayor raised the question nobody wants answered: if the logic works for future babies, does it work for people already born?
The Court That Remade America: SCOTUS Is Now the First Since the 1950s to Reject Most Civil Rights Claims
A Washington Post statistical analysis finds Trump's three appointees pushed the Court to reject civil rights cases at a rate not seen in 70 years. Justice Sotomayor is publicly naming what happened.
Trump Threatened 50% Tariffs on Iran's Arms Suppliers. The Supreme Court Already Took Away His Authority to Do That.
Hours after signing a two-week ceasefire with Iran, Trump announced tariffs on any country arming Tehran. citing no legal basis, just days after the Supreme Court stripped his primary enforcement mechanism.