"A challenge to a federal law that authorized intercepting international communications involving Americans appeared to face an uphill climb at the Supreme Court..."

"... on Monday, but not one quite as steep as many had anticipated," observes Adam Liptak at the NYT . The question in the case wa...

NYT/CBS poll shows low approval rating of the Supreme Court... but why?

A poll of 976 adults shows 44% approve of "the way the Supreme Court is handling its job," 36% disapprove, and 20% judiciously opi...

"No part of your argument has to do with racial or ethnic profiling?" asked Chief Justice Roberts, and the SG agreed.

The Arizona immigration case is emphatically not about the issue that seems to be all people opposed to the law argue about in the politica...

Adam Liptak — at the NYT — says the SG tried to appeal to Justice Kennedy's idea of liberty.

Liptak refers to the way the Solicitor General, Donald B. Verrilli Jr., ended his argument by connecting the health care law to liberty: “T...

Reports from this morning's oral argument in the Obamacare case.

Tom Goldstein, mid-argument : It is essentially clear that the four more liberal members of the Court will vote in favor of the mandate. But...

The big week of Obamacare oral arguments begins with "the most boring jurisdictional stuff one can imagine."

It's like "a kind of practical joke that the court is playing on the public," says Paul Clement (who represents the 26 states...

The Supreme Court will hear the Texas redistricting case — quickly, in time for the 2012 primary.

Adam Liptak reports: The court stayed orders from a special three-judge court in San Antonio, which issued electoral maps late last month th...

Supreme Court takes the Obamacare case.

Oral argument should be in March, with a decision by the end of the term , in time to have a massive impact on the presidential campaign. As...

"Justice Anthony M. Kennedy... said he aspired to Ernest Hemingway’s stripped-down language..."

Talk about falling short of your aspirations! Of all the Justices on the Court today, I find that Justice Kennedy writes in the least strai...

Jan Crawford interviews Justice Scalia at the Federalist Society annual dinner.

David Lat reports: Crawford asked Scalia if he ever found himself in a situation where he was torn between his personal conscience and his p...

"Adam Liptak has a somewhat puzzling critique of Supreme Court opinions in the New York Times..."

Says Orin Kerr , taking it all very seriously.

Replacing Linda Greenhouse at the NYT...

... is Adam Liptak. The resume is impressive. But what impressed me [i.e., Washington bureau chief Dean Baquet] most in my discussions with...

"I did shift from being against the death penalty to thinking that if it has a significant deterrent effect it’s probably justified."

Says Cass Sunstein, quoted in this article by Adam Liptak . For years, death penalty opponents used the argument that all the studies showed...

"I haven’t opened up a law review in years. No one speaks of them. No one relies on them."

So says Second Circuit Judge Dennis G. Jacobs, quoted by Adam Liptak. ( TimesSelect .) Liptak: Articles in law reviews have certainly become...

NYT turnaround.

This morning's NYT editorial page displayed embarrassing overenthusiasm for Judge Anna Diggs Taylor's decision in the NSA case, say...

Searching the congressman's office.

I'm trying to think why I haven't posted on the search of Representative Jefferson's congressional office. I've been eyeing ...

"The 'ridiculously obvious' point that the Supreme Court is 'a justificatory instrument' for military policy."

Adam Liptak taps lawprof opinion on why we lost the Solomon Amendment case: There is the reactionary Supreme Court hypothesis. William N. E...

About that highly experienced Supreme Court law clerk.

A few days ago, we were talking about Justice Alito's new law clerk Adam G. Ciongoli, an experienced lawyer who worked closely with Att...

Alito answers.

Let's take a look at the NYT coverage of Day 2 of the Alito hearings. The two Adams -- Liptak and Nagourney -- have this to say: If Sena...

"A betrayal of the law school's liberal values."

Adam Liptak writes about the way Yale lawprofs treat their own -- graduates Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito and colleague Robert Bork. But...