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Nov 12, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Stephen Vladeck
Because of all that has happened since President-elect Trump's first term in office, it is easy to forget that the Supreme Court repeatedly stood up to him during those chaotic four years. The court impeded Mr. Trump's initial efforts to ban people from six Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States. It blocked Mr. Trump's attempt to put a question on the 2020 census asking whether the respondent was a U.S. citizen.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Nancy Gertner |Stephen Vladeck
There are important cases among the 40 that the Supreme Court has agreed to hear in its new term beginning on Monday, but no blockbusters: nothing like last term's ruling in the Donald Trump immunity case, or the affirmative action case from 2023, or the abortion and guns rulings from 2022. The real issue in the new term is about the court itself - that is, the Supreme Court's increasingly eroding credibility, and what, if anything, the justices are going to do about it.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
jamanetwork.com | Lawrence O. Gostin |Stephen Vladeck
Guns, Hospitals, and “Sensitive Places” Joshua B. Romero, BA; Daniel G. Aaron, MD, JD; Richard S.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Kate Shaw |William Baude |Stephen Vladeck
Kate Shaw, a contributing Opinion writer, hosted a written online conversation with Will Baude, a law professor at the University of Chicago, and Stephen Vladeck, a law professor at Georgetown and the author of " The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic," to reflect on the dramatic end to the Supreme Court term. Kate Shaw: This Supreme Court term ended on a shocking note with Trump v. United States.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
la-razon.com | Stephen Vladeck |Mauricio Saravia |Erika Ibáñez
Cuando comenzó este periodo de la Corte Suprema en octubre pasado, una de las predicciones más intrigantes de los comentaristas fue que la jueza Amy Coney Barrett saldría de su caparazón y emergería como la nueva jueza indecisa de la corte, emitiendo el voto decisivo en los casos más divisivos.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Stephen Vladeck
When this Supreme Court term began last October, one of the more intriguing predictions from commentators was that Justice Amy Coney Barrett - entering her third full term on the court - would come out of her shell and emerge as the court's new swing justice, casting the decisive vote in the most divisive cases.
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Jul 7, 2024 | 
theatlantic.com | Stephen Vladeck
One of the surprising themes of the Supreme Court’s term that effectively ended this past Monday was how the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit—the federal appeals court in New Orleans that hears cases from Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas—won even as it lost.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
lithub.com | Stephen Vladeck
For generations, public discussion of the US Supreme Court has treated the Court largely as the sum of its written rulings—the dozens of legal disputes that the justices resolve each term through lengthy opinions handed down via a carefully choreographed procedure after months of briefing, oral argument, and internal deliberations. When we talk about the Court, we talk about Brown v. Board of Education (the 1954 ruling that desegregated public schools). We talk about Miranda v.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Stephen Vladeck
Sometimes a Supreme Court case appears to be about a minor technical issue, but is in fact a reflection of a much broader and significant legal development—one that could upend years of settled precedent and, with it, basic understandings of the allocation of powers across our system of government. That’s exactly what is happening in Garland v. Cargill , a case for which the Supreme Court heard oral argument at the end of February .
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
startribune.com | Stephen Vladeck
Opinion editor's note: Star Tribune Opinion publishes a mix of national and local commentaries online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. ••• The confrontation between state and federal officials in the border town of Eagle Pass, Texas, has created some wild hyperbole: From various commentators, it is the Fort Sumter for America's second civil war; or the triumphant vindication of states' rights at the expense of a weak president; or some twisted combination of both.
