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In a podcast for the Constitution Center, Carrie Severino and Michael Dorf try to “make sense of an unpredictable year” at the Court, while Sullivan & Cromwell looks back at the business cases at the Court. In The Economist, Steven Mazie contends that the “justice responsible for steering the court to the left was Anthony Kennedy, Scalia’s fellow Ronald Reagan nominee,” while in The New Yorker Jeffrey Toobin suggests that there was “so much drama” at the Court this Term “that it was possible to miss a curious subplot: the full flowering of Justice Clarence Thomas’s judicial eccentricity.”

As Lyle previewed in his lovely piece this weekend, the end of this Term is a turning point for SCOTUSblog.  We say a fond goodbye to our longtime reporter Lyle Denniston, and we welcome our current editor Amy Howe into that role.  Our access to...

This morning the Court issued its three final opinions in argued cases for the Term: Voisine v. United States, holding that a domestic-violence conviction is a misdemeanor crime of violence for purposes of limiting access to firearms; Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, holding that Texas’s...

Commentary So much of the rhythm of my life, and that of my family, has been dictated for more than a half-century by the Supreme Court's calendar.  And so it is with the completion this coming week of the Court's most recent Term.  With one more...

Yesterday was a big day at the Court, with opinions in three cases and equally divided affirmances in two more. Molly Runkle rounded up early coverage and commentary for this blog of the Court’s decision in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, holding that the race-conscious admissions policy in use when Abigail Fisher applied (unsuccessfully) to the university does not violate the Constitution, for this blog.  Other coverage comes from Tony Mauro of Supreme Court Brief (subscription required), David Savage of Los Angeles Times, Daniel Fisher of Forbes, and Michael Bobelian, also at Forbes.  Commentary supportive of the decision comes from David Gans at Balkinization; critical commentary comes from Terrence Pell at USA Today and Joshua Thompson at Forbes, And at Slate, Dahlia Lithwick concludes that, although the decision is “a loss for Alito and Clarence Thomas and the chief justice on affirmative action,” there is also “mass confusion about what it all means in any concrete terms.” 

This morning the Court issued three opinions in argued cases: Mathis v. United States, holding that the use of state convictions to impose enhanced federal sentences under the Armed Career Criminal Act depends on whether the elements of the state offense match a generic covered...

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