The Latest Breaking News from the Supreme Court

Justice Kagan mows down many circuit precedents without much explanation.

Once again, Justice Thomas raises questions the other Justices simply do not wish to answer.

Supreme blessing for supreme cruelty.

The principle that law enforcement needs a warrant to seize your property is a cornerstone of American freedom. However, the legal landscape is riddled with exceptions that have expanded over time, granting police significant power to confiscate assets on the spot. A particularly potent tool is civil asset forfeiture, which…

COMMENT: The ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ passing into law is the crowning achievement of the president’s first six months in the White House, a time marked by more wins than losses. But, says Mary Dejevsky, the US capital remains baffled by the president’s ability to get what he wants – and…

Recently, the Bengaluru bench of the Central Administrative Tribunal quashed the suspension of an IPS officer following the RCB stampede. Police officers are only human, the tribunal said, and not “bhagwan”.

The Supreme Court is clearing the way for the deportation of several immigrants who were put on a flight in May bound for South Sudan, a war-ravaged country where they have no ties

From the Eleventh Circuit, a reminder that First Amendment protections against government employer action are much weaker than the protections against the government as sovereign (especially, but not only, when the speech is also "disrespectful, demeaning, rude, and insulting").

Class actions and Administrative Procedure Act claims can achieve much the same result as the nationwide orders that the Supreme Court rejected.