Originalist legal scholars Mike Ramsey and Mike Rappaport debate whether the major questions doctrine - an important theory underlying several recent Supreme Court decisions - can be squared with originalism or not.
A Florida woman has been threatened with fines for giving tips without the proper occupational licensing.
A comprehensive catalog of every case in which the Court considered a constitutional challenge to an act of Congress
I am one of the relatively few people who think the Court got both cases right.
Article for Cato Supreme Court Review
My forthcoming article the good, the bad, and the likely implications of the Supreme Court's decision West Virginia v. EPA
Even while conceding that the rifles they want to ban are commonly used for lawful purposes, they refuse to grapple with the implications.
Yet the civil rights movement has long had a gun rights component.
The Chief Justice has been the focus of widespread criticism during the last Supreme Court term. But he deserves credit for getting virtually every single major case right.
The Supreme Court decision overturning Roe has made bad law and bad medicine
The Court denied the Biden's request for a stay of a lower court injunction against new immigration enforcement guidelines.
A prominent academic expert on both same-sex marriage and full faith and credit weighs in.
Adding progressive justices to the bench would eventually backfire.
Does the bipartisan act protecting same-sex marriage run afoul of constitutional federalism principles? The answer is definitely not with respect to one of its provisions, and probably not with respect to the other.
“Without full briefing and argument,” Kagan objects, the Court is quietly resolving major disputes.
Passing an actual law is a good and proper way of enshrining recognition.
The New York Times misleadingly claims that cases like the abortion sought by a 10-year-old Ohio rape victim "are not as rare as people think."
The unanimous decision is a good first step for getting law enforcement out of prescription decisions.
The Supreme Court unambiguously rejected the sort of reasoning that a federal appeals court used to uphold New York's ban.
The Institute for Justice urges SCOTUS to renounce that open-ended exception to the Fourth Amendment.
The Supreme Court is skeptical of agency efforts to pour new wine out of old bottles.
Perhaps, as we relearn the virtues of local decision-making, we'll also reacquire a taste for individualism.
Several states are retaining subjective criteria for carry permits or imposing new restrictions on gun possession.
The state's trucking industry fears drivers will quit or work out of state.
A 1942 decision about the Commerce Clause takes on new importance post-Roe.
The Supreme Court proclaimed this term that the Lemon test had been abandoned. Is this what is in story for Chevron?
Some states promptly eliminated subjective standards, while others refused to recognize the decision's implications.
Like it or not, the Thomas Court is here.
I asked scholars, podcasters, and passersby how they'd change the nation's founding charter. Here's what they told me.
"I don't need to have numbers," Gov. Kathy Hochul said when asked about the evidence supporting the law.
Plus: A listener asks about Supreme Court legitimacy, and the editors practice "libertarian Festivus."
The university's own students are often not so lucky.
Leading libertarian legal scholar Randy Barnett talks about abortion, gun rights, and worrying trends at the highest court in the land.
The Court told appeals courts to reconsider their conclusions in light of last week's ruling against New York's restrictions on public possession of firearms.
In her forceful West Virginia v. EPA dissent, Justice Kagan challenges the majority's commitment to textualism.
The Reason senior editor and co-founder of the libertarian feminist group Feminists for Liberty examines a murky post-Roe future.
Plus: A new lawsuit challenges D.C.'s ban on carrying guns on public transit, Denver's latest housing affordability initiative will make the city more expensive, and more...
Several state supreme courts already have recognized the right to terminate a pregnancy. Will more states join the list?
Any future regulations will require clear authorization from Congress.
Chief Justice Roberts final opinion of the term rejects the statutory challenge to the Biden Administration's rescission of the "Remain in Mexico" policy.
Scrapping the policy is an important step in restoring a fair asylum-seeking process.
Chief Justice Roberts writes for a six-justice majority in West Virginia v. EPA.
The leading libertarian legal theorist talks about worrying trends at the Supreme Court as a conservative majority takes hold.
Justice Breyer consistently resisted conservative efforts to constrain federal power, so his opinion in Torres is a fitting swan song.
The Supreme Court announces when Judge Jackson will become Justice Jackson.
