Key takeaways from an active week at the court

Key takeaways from an active week at the court

[Newsletter ad — view on SCOTUSblog]This week may have fallen within the Supreme Court’s summer recess, but it wasn’t exactly restful for the justices – or for the team behind this newsletter. There was a flurry of activity in the ongoing battle over Missouri...
The funniest justice of the 2025-26 term

The funniest justice of the 2025-26 term

As Justice Samuel Alito has said, there are “some people who have nothing better to do than count Supreme Court laughs.”True enough: Last September, I did just that, tallying the number of “laughs” between the 2017-18 and the 2024-25 terms to crown “the funniest...