Both sides in the landmark employment discrimination decision agree that laws should generally be interpreted based on the "ordinary meaning" of their words. But they differ on what that entails.
"Gyms are being treated dissimilarly without any justification for the distinction, given the record before the Court."
Eight justices found no equal protection violation, but there was no majority opinion on why.
What Lysander Spooner argued in 1845 became the law of the land in 1868
A Sixth Circuit panel rejects claims of qualified immunity for officers and Monell immunity for a Cleveland suburb.
Professor Zach Price on the Chief Justice Roberts' Decision in Dept. of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California
Why are we giving the world's biggest tech companies litigation subsidies they don't need?
The Introduction summarizes the book's argument and provides an outline of the chapters that follow.
Georgetown political philosopher Peter Jaworski makes the case for paying blood plasma donors. The same arguments also justify paying organ donors and participants in vaccine "challenge trials."
A spectacular fossil, tree-shaped air fresheners, and protecting and serving the poop out of you.
Cancel Culture is on the rise, it needs to stop if we are to preserve a free society.
We have edited the case down to 22 pages for the Barnett/Blackman supplement
The DHS Secretary erred because she rescinded the entire DACA policy, rather than just the parts CJ Roberts suggested might be unlawful
"If officials are now exempting protesters, how can they justify continuing to restrict worshippers? The answer is that they can’t."
The federal government almost classified Asian Indians as white in the 1970s.
Conservatives are 0-5 this week. A new #SCOTUS short list will not help.
CJ Roberts rejects the A&C analysis of the 2nd, 9th, and D.C. Circuits, and tentatively embraces the 5th Circuit's analysis about DACA's benefits
The decision is only a temporary reprieve for DACA recipients, and still permits Trump or a future president to repeal the program if he is willing to pay the political price of doing so.
In what appears to be a quite narrow ruling, Chief Justice John Roberts holds that if Trump wants to get rid of DACA, he'll have to try again.
Not a high-level official, not a spokesperson, not an endorser -- just an ordinary person.
The decision has been promptly appealed.
Designate a teaching assistant to serve as a "Zoom Producer" to manage the grid, check the queue, and toggle the screen share.
"The original meaning of the constitution binds us as a matter of the rule of law. Its restraint on our power cannot depend on whether we agree with its current application on policy grounds. Such a commitment to originalism would be no commitment at all. It would be a smokescreen for the outcomes that we prefer."
The hardest type of virtual learning: with some students in class, and some students remote.
"Feeding the body requires teams of people to work together in physical spaces, but churches can feed the spirit in other ways."
The first in a series of posts based on my book "Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom"
Right-of-center lawyers send me their to thoughts on Bostock, Blue Monday, and the Conservative Legal Movement
Several of the scholars associated with the now-closed BHL blog have started a new one.
Is the Trump Administration trying to get a precedent on classified information that would benefit incumbent Presidents at the expense of voters?
Judges should stop treating internal emails as confidential.
Hawley is right: Congress is "terrified about being held accountable for anything on any subject"
"If we've been fighting for originalism and textualism and this is the result of that, then I have to say it turns out we haven't been fighting for very much"
The Supreme Court will continue to ignore the Second Amendment until it receives a petition it has to grant.
The ruling is yet another setback for the administration, though legal battles over sanctuary jurisdictions will continue.
So says an order from Judge Landya McCafferty in the District of New Hampshire.
A unanimous panel concludes the Department of Health and Human Services Lacked Statutory Authority to Impose the Rule
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