Justice Alito in the spotlight

Justice Alito in the spotlight

Yesterday was publication day for Justice Samuel Alito, who drew on his past speeches to write a book – So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country – on his judicial philosophy.At the CourtOn Tuesday, the justices heard oral...
Law and politics collide in asylum case

Law and politics collide in asylum case

When the president signs a bill that Congress sends him, he imbues words with the elixir of the law. Once turned into law, words became orders that structure the world in which we live. But while the world constantly changes, the words that constitute a law don’t....
A textbook 14th Amendment revolution

A textbook 14th Amendment revolution

This is the second part in a series for SCOTUSblog recounting two decades of constitutional change through the five editions of our casebook, the first published in 2008 and the latest to be published this December.In 2005, the Supreme Court’s 14th Amendment...