Chief Justice John Roberts often laments that he has limited clout as he deals with his eight Supreme Court colleagues.

Justice Samuel Alito said the Supreme Court ignored Congress's intention in its ruling on retroactive relief under the First ...

Justices” John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett allows President Donald Trump to cancel birthright citizenship in a flagrant undoing of the ...

Supreme Court justices lambasted each other's arguments in a ruling over an effort by the president to deny birthright ...

Here are some takeaways from the Supreme Court’s term: That’s where the court deals with cases that are still in their early ...

Even in the desensitized landscape of death-penalty cases, the justice’s opinion in Gutierrez manages to stun.

Chief Justice John Roberts chastised President Donald Trump early on in his second term, and Justice Amy Coney Barrett ...

But it also leaves lower courts room to continue defending trans rights, exploiting Roberts’ self-defeating sophistry to ...

The justices who signed on to this decision should be ashamed of themselves, and some of them should know better.

That there remains, even now, a narrow place for light. Correction, June 27, 2025: This post originally misstated that the Gutierrez majority opinion was written by Chief Justice John Roberts.

Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean ...