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• Understanding the court’s next major case on asylum seekers: Wassily v. Blanche August 14, 2026
  This coming term, in Wassily v. Blanche, the Supreme Court will decide whether asylum beneficiaries are barred from obtaining lawful permanent residency if their asylum status has been terminated. Wassily is of considerable significance. While the termination of asylum status once was relatively uncommon, recent policy changes by the Trump administration have exposed far more […]
• Who exactly are the “friends of the court”? August 14, 2026
  On Oct. 13, the Supreme Court will hear argument in Beaird v. United States, a case brought by a Texas man challenging an increase to his sentence for having a gun after a prior felony conviction. Like most federal criminal cases at the Supreme Court, lawyers for both Beaird and the federal government will appear […]
• The transformation of Supreme Court arguments August 14, 2026
  Plus, a top Democrat is calling for Supreme Court reform.
• Once upon a time: storytelling in Learning Resources v. Trump August 13, 2026
  Every fall, with each new class of 1Ls, we legal writing teachers undertake a strange job. We spend an entire year trying to get students to not write like lawyers, a notoriously dreadful category of writers. In pursuit of that goal, we often target the bad qualities like jargon, legalese, word-wasting phrases, and other legal […]
• The Supreme Court expands protections for digital data – now what? August 13, 2026
  Please note that SCOTUS Outside Opinions constitute the views of outside contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SCOTUSblog or its staff.This term, in Chatrie v. United States, the Supreme Court recognized one’s digital location as firmly protected by the Constitution from police searches without a warrant. Beyond its particular context, Chatrie also opens the […]