The Latest Breaking News from Gorsuch

"[The decision] showcases the now-familiar contrast between the Court’s two different approaches to conservative jurisprudence: the strict formalism of Justice Gorsuch—a stern insistence that the United States live up to the letter of its legal obligations come hell or high water—as opposed to the status-quo, stare decisis driven conservative jurisprudence…

Forget Doe v. Mills. Justice Barrett will grant relief on the shadow docket when the Fifth Circuit steps out of line.

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…

She doesn't do a very good job of it.

Barrett was added to the SCOTUS short-list only seventeen days after she was confirmed to the Seventh Circuit.

In the SFFA affirmative action case, Chief Justice Roberts for the majority, Justice Thomas, concurring, and especially Justice Gorsuch, concurring, argued that in addition to other legal defects in the defendants' affirmative action programs, the classifications used they used for "diversity" purposes were not properly tailored to serve the schools'…

Not blockbusters, maybe, but important cases nonetheless

The importance of the trial records in Students for Fair Admissions and 303 Creative

Justice Jackson demonstrates why the usual recusal rules will not work for the Supreme Court.

What would Masterpiece have looked like with Justice Kennedy still on Court?

The decision this term that has the largest potential for a legal "jolt" was Mallory.