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15 Jun SCOTUSblog is continuing our partnership with Casetext
I am excited to share that SCOTUSblog will continue to work with Casetext into the new Supreme Court term, to provide our readers access to court opinions, statutes and other primary legal content we cite in SCOTUSblog posts. If you are a frequent reader of...
03 Jun Opinion analysis: Justices reaffirm distinction between first and second habeas petitions
One of the most significant changes to federal post-conviction habeas review that Congress adopted in 1996 in the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act was the dramatic curtailment of second-or-successive habeas suits by which state and federal prisoners can challenge their confinement. But when a...
24 Apr Opinion analysis: Divided court upholds restrictive reading of immigration statute, limiting relief to noncitizens facing removal
Yesterday, the Supreme Court issued a 5-4 decision in Barton v. Barr, upholding a restrictive reading of a provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act that offers relief to noncitizens facing removal proceedings. In their respective opinions, both the majority and the dissent advance interpretations...
20 Apr Opinion analysis: With debate over adherence to precedent, justices scrap nonunanimous jury rule
In 1972, the Supreme Court ruled that the Sixth Amendment guarantees a right to a unanimous jury – but that defendants in state trials do not have such a right. Today, by a vote of 6-3, the justices reversed course, holding that the Sixth Amendment...
11 Apr Texas abortion dispute reaches Supreme Court (Updated)
UPDATE: In an unsigned order on Monday night, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit allowed medication abortions to go forward — the same relief that Planned Parenthood had sought in the Supreme Court — while litigation over the near-total ban on abortions...
23 Mar Opinion analysis: Court sends race-discrimination case back to lower courts, requires plaintiff to meet higher bar
This morning the Supreme Court issued its opinion in an important race-discrimination case. The justices unanimously ruled that a lawsuit brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1981, a part of the Civil Rights Act that prohibits racial discrimination in contracts, requires the plaintiff to show “but...
17 Mar Petitions of the week
This week we highlight petitions pending before the Supreme Court that address, among other things, whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel includes the right to a plea offer that was never made; whether a criminal defendant has a constitutional right to...
26 Feb Argument preview: Abortion debate returns to the Roberts Court
Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this post ran on January 27, 2020, as an introduction to this blog’s symposium on June Medical Services v. Russo, as well as at Howe on the Court, where it was originally published. When he ran for president in 2016, then-candidate Donald Trump promised...
27 Jan Symposium: Abortion debate returns to the Roberts Court
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in Featured, Symposium before oral argument in June Medical Services v. Russo
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When he ran for president in 2016, then-candidate Donald Trump promised that, if elected, he would appoint “pro-life” Supreme Court justices, which would result in the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision establishing a woman’s right to an abortion. In the three...
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