SCOTUSblog » Lyle Denniston

The Supreme Court has not yet announced whether it will return to normal operations when the 2021-22 term begins in October. This article is part of a symposium about how the coronavirus pandem...

https://www.scotusblog.com/2021/07/lessons-from-the-pandemic-gains-losses-and-two-suggestions-for-a-new-normal/

Amid prospects that the Supreme Court will still be operating with one fewer Justice well into its next Term, the Justices on Tuesday added eight new cases for hearing and decision after the sum...

https://www.scotusblog.com/2016/06/court-to-hear-major-new-controversies-next-term/

Analysis Putting the right to abortion back on the same constitutional footing the Supreme Court laid down nearly a quarter-century ago, a divided Supreme Court on Monday swept away new forms of...

https://www.scotusblog.com/2016/06/opinion-analysis-abortion-rights-reemerge-strongly/

Analysis Ruling broadly (but not finally) in favor of a convicted ex-governor’s legal argument, even while denouncing his personal behavior and that of his wife as “tawdry,” a unanimous S...

https://www.scotusblog.com/2016/06/opinion-analysis-new-barrier-to-public-corruption-cases/

Commentary So much of the rhythm of my life, and that of my family, has been dictated for more than a half-century by the Supreme Court’s calendar.  And so it is with the completion this comin...

https://www.scotusblog.com/2016/06/one-journey-over-the-quest-continues/

Analysis President Barack Obama’s ambitious plan to overhaul U.S. immigration policy for millions of foreign nationals living in the U.S. came close to crashing down Thursday in a Supreme Cour...

https://www.scotusblog.com/2016/06/opinion-analysis-obama-immigration-plan-all-but-doomed/

Analysis With Justice Anthony M. Kennedy making a major effort to confine Supreme Court approval of affirmative action on college campuses to one case and one plan, and to limit even that approv...

https://www.scotusblog.com/2016/06/opinion-analysis-a-brief-respite-for-affirmative-action/

For the second time in two years, the Supreme Court on Monday assigned itself the task of clarifying the president’s power to fill government posts — even as the Court awaits a nominee to jo...

https://www.scotusblog.com/2016/06/again-the-presidents-power-to-appoint-is-at-issue/

Analysis For the second time in a week, the Supreme Court has rejected the government of Puerto Rico’s efforts to use its self-governing powers — this time, nullifying the commonwealth’s at...

https://www.scotusblog.com/2016/06/opinion-analysis-puerto-ricos-debt-woes-left-to-congress/

Seeking to bypass lower courts, a number of states have asked permission to sue each other directly in the Supreme Court in a high-stakes fight over millions of dollars’ worth of unclaimed prop...

https://www.scotusblog.com/2016/06/three-way-fight-over-unclaimed-property/