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239. The Alien Terrorist Removal Court
Bonus 238: The Court Against the Courts
238. Venue Engineering in the Efforts to Limit Gender-Affirming Medical Care for Minors
Bonus 237: Looking Toward OT2026
SCOTUS Talk with Chris Cillizza and Steve Vladeck!
Bonus 236: A Term of Self-Inflicted Wounds
Decision Day Summary: June 30, 2026
236. Three Thoughts Heading into the Last Decision Day of the Term
Decision Day Summary: June 29, 2026
235. Hypothetical Jurisdiction in Mullin v. Doe
Decision Day Summary: June 25, 2026
Bonus 234: The Ascension of Westside Mothers
234. DOJ's Alarming Arguments in the xAI Case
Decision Day Summary: June 18, 2026
Bonus 233: The (Two) E. Jean Carroll Cases
233. Why Did the Court Deny Lovelace v. Lee?
Bonus 232: The Term of the Summary Reversal
232. And Then There Were 23(ish)...
231. The Death of Purcell's "Principle"
Decision Day Summary: June 4, 2026
Bonus 230: Justice Barrett's Vote in Margolin
Decision Day Summary: May 28, 2026
229. A Tale of Two High-Profile Immigration Cases
Decision Day Summary: May 21, 2026
Bonus 228: The $1.776B Political Question
228. Justices Testifying Before Congress
Decision Day Summary: May 14, 2026
Bonus 227: New End-of-Term Bonus Features
227. "We're All Trying to Find the Guy Who Did This"
Lawfare Live: The Supreme Court’s Long Shadow (with Kate Klonick and Steve Vladeck)
Bonus 226: What Makes a Case "Big"?
226. Two More Data Points for the Inconsistent Court
225. How Congress Used to Leverage the Court
224. The Return of the Mifepristone Mess
Bonus 223: "They Are Who We Thought They Were"
223. The Revealing Summary Reversal in LULAC
222. The April Argument Calendar
Bonus 221: Sanewashing the Emergency Docket
The SCOTUS Shadow Docket, with Steve Vladeck
221. Chief Justice Roberts and the Clean Power Plan
Bonus 220: Verify, Don't Trust
220. Ideology and Shadow Docket Precedent
Bonus 219: The Demise of the Death Docket
219. Drunks, Lampposts, and the Birthright Citizenship Case
Bonus 218: Birthright Citizenship and the Cassandra Problem
218. Qualified Immunity and the Shadow Docket
Bonus 217: The Day the Supreme Court Wasn't Supreme
217. The Virtues and Vices of "Certiorari Before Judgment"
Bonus 216: Shadow Docket Shadowboxing
216. Taking the TPS Cases Seriously
Bonus 215: How I Write the Newsletter
215. The Supreme Court and Vietnam
Bonus 214: Emergency Relief from State Courts
214. The Court's (Selective) Impatience is a Vice
213. The Federal Tort Claims Act
Bonus 212: The Supreme Court is Not "Reining in" Executive Power
SCOTUS Talk with Steve Vladeck!
212. The Gorsuch-Kagan Tariffs Exchange
211. Making Sense of the Tariffs Ruling
Bonus 210: Federal Judges Speaking Out
210. The President's Lack of Power Over Elections
Bonus 209: State Courts and Federal Prisoners
5th Circuit on that Detention Bullshit w/ Steve Vladeck
209. The Modern Emergency Docket Turns Ten
208. The Fifth Circuit Jumps the Immigration Detention Shark
Bonus 207: The Court's True Transparency Problem(s)
207. The Justice Department Beclowns Itself (Again)
Bonus 206: Legal Scholarship and the Dual State
206. "Administrative Warrants" and the Percival Op-Ed
205. Chief Judge Schiltz and the Department of Justice
204. Accountability After Minneapolis
Bonus 203: Correcting the Record in the Social Security/DOGE Case
203. Legislative Standing and/After Bost
What to know about the Insurrection Act
Bonus 202: Searching Reporters' Homes
202. The Timing of Rulings in Argued Cases
Bonus 201: Ted Cruz, the AO, and Hannah Arendt
201. Who is the Chief Justice's Audience?