The Laborious KBJ Justice Ginsburg was known as the Notorious RBG. Notoriety was a perfect adjective for Justice Ginsburg. She was famous, but… The post The Laborious KBJ appeared first on Reason.com. Reason · May 5
Paul Ehrlich Helped Create Roe v. Wade Justice Blackmun echoed the Population Bomb's concerns about "population growth," and Ehrlich thought Roe supported "compulsory abortion." Reason · Mar 18
Does the Supreme Court Favor the Rich? The NYT profiles a sloppy and highly problematic empirical study of the Supreme Court. Reason · Jan 5
Should The Denial Of Rights To Aliens Cut Against Restoring The Privileges or Immunities Clause? What rights do aliens have under Section 1? Reason · Nov 9, 2025
DCCHS Oral History of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg A set of interviews with the late justice is now available Reason · Oct 13, 2025
When Does a Regulation Become Final? The D.C. Circuit resolves a dispute over which set of visa regulations bind the public. Reason · Jul 11, 2025
See, I Told You So About Justice Barrett Justice Barrett compares the Constitution to Odysseus. But I feel like Cassandra. Reason · Jun 16, 2025
The Best Defense of Justice Amy Coney Barrett: No One Else Could Have Been Confirmed To Replace RBG Before The Election "Republicans couldn’t have filled the seat without Justice Barrett. Mitch McConnell knew this, and for that reason insisted that she needed to be the nominee." Reason · Mar 18, 2025
How To Think About Justice Jackson "& Juliet" The role that was created for her, and for no one else, has a value that cannot be stated on a disclosure form. Reason · Dec 17, 2024
KBJ Veers Into RBG Territory With "Hope" Comment About Harris There was some cross-talk on The View, but Jackson seems to have said that Kamala Harris's nomination "‘gives a lot of people hope." Reason · Sep 5, 2024
Most Americans have no idea how anti-worker the US supreme court has become The court’s current justices are some of the most hostile to labor rights in modern US history The Guardian - US · Jun 28, 2024
The Sixteenth Amendment did not "Overrule" Pollock Constitutional amendments change the organic law. They do not overrule a decision. Reason · Jun 21, 2024
Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito Secretly Recorded at the Supreme Court Historical Society I have been a member of the Supreme Court Historical Society for more than a decade. I very much enjoy reading the Journal of Supreme Court History. Also, when I am in town, I try to attend various events, especially the re-enactment of famous cases. One of my favorites was… Reason · Jun 10, 2024
Reason · May 23, 2024 Flagpole to Heaven I've learned a few things this past week about the Alitos. It seems that they have flag poles at their homes, and use flags to convey messages. I'm not sure if the Alitos have taken classes on flag semaphore. What those messages are, exactly, I do not know. At the…
Reason · Dec 17, 2023 Ten Reflections on Justices Kavanaugh and Barrett's Votes In Dobbs On Friday, I wrote a post that totaled nearly 6,000 words about the New York Times bombshell report on Dobbs. My initial goal was to simply lay out all of the new disclosures--and there were many of them. Now, I've had some time to think about this new information. Here,…
Reason · Dec 15, 2023 16 Disclosures from the New York Times Leak Report About Dobbs Jodi Kantor and Adam Liptak of the New York Times have published a remarkable story about Dobbs that reports on private correspondences, votes at conference, and more. This post will highlight sixteen of the largest disclosures, and close with some broader thoughts. And I've presented this narrative in (roughly) chronological…
Reason · Jul 31, 2023 Justice Alito's Interview in the Wall Street Journal As a general rule, Supreme Court Justices speak through their opinions. From time to time, Justices will be "interviewed"by friendly interlocutors during public events. The screened questions are usually softballs, and even then, the Justices tend to avoid saying anything newsworthy. In recent years, perhaps the biggest outlier was Justice…
Reason · Jul 17, 2023 Progressives Should Be Grateful For President Trump's Not-So-Conservative SCOTUS Picks Recently, Ron DeSantis, the Governor of Florida and GOP presidential candidate, offered a mild criticism of President Trump's three Supreme Court nominees. "I respect the three [Trump] appointees," DeSantis said, "but none of those three are at the same level of Justice Thomas and Justice Alito." DeSantis is not wrong.…
Reason · May 15, 2023 Supreme Court to Consider Whether Members of Congress Have Article III Standing to Sue Federal Agencies The Supreme Court has accepted certiorari in Carnahan v. Maloney to consider whether members of Congress can sue to force disclosure of information from the General Services Administration.
Reason · May 5, 2023 Jeff Rosen and Joan Biskupic Talk About Supreme Court Leaks RBG told Rosen that AMK wrote the Bush v. Gore PC, and Biskupic said a Justice likely leaked Dobbs wrangling to WSJ.
Reason · Apr 24, 2023 What Joan Biskupic "Learned" in Nine Black Robes? The inside-information largely trickled to a halt after 2020.
Reason · Apr 18, 2023 Judge James C. Ho's Remarks on Justice Thomas and Judge Kacsmaryk "We should apply the highest ethical standards, not hypocritical double standards."
Reason · Aug 23, 2022 D.C. Circuit Divides on Level of Scrutiny for Regulation of Filming on Federal Property A panel majority holds that "reasonableness" is all that is required and upholds the Park Service's permit-and-fee requirements.