When Roe v. Wade came out, Justice Ginsburg believed the motivation behind it was fighting overpopulation.

Emily Bazelon gets clarification directly from the Justice about a remark she made in 2009 that seemed perhaps to favor abortion for popula...

"A second Obama term could kill the Second Amendment."

Says James Taranto , inviting Obamans to make gun control a big campaign issue. The Supreme Court's recent cases finding an individual r...

Chief Justice Roberts writes an opinion limiting the commerce power and the spending power.

This is an important opinion about federalism and the scope of Congress's enumerated powers. Even as the individual mandate was upheld u...

The Supreme Court's new double jeopardy case divided 6-3 on gender lines: was this "some sort of gender-related 'empathy'"?

Lawprof Mark Tushnet wonders , noting the dissent limited to the 3 female Justices — Ginsburg, Kagan, and Sotomayor — and expressing the bel...

For the first time, a Supreme Court opinion uses the word "feminist."

The case is Coleman v. Court of Appeals of Maryland , which came out this year on March 20th. There are 19 other Supreme Court opinions wher...

C-SPAN chairman Brian Lamb asks Chief Justice John Roberts to televise the Obamacare oral arguments.

Though the Court releases audio recordings of oral recording, it has never gone on TV. Should Court accept cameras for this momentous case? ...

"Not everyone on the UW-Madison campus is a fan of the university's 'holistic' admissions policy."

"That's the gist of a strongly worded email I received over the weekend from UW-Madison physics professor Marshall Onellion," ...

"Where is the 9,000-foot cow?"/"What do you think about Satan?"/"What did James Madison think about video games?"

Justice Ginsburg lists the strangest questions asked last term at oral argument. "From the foregoing samples, you may better understand...

Prof. Chemerinsky says Justice Ginsburg "has in her power the ability to prevent a real shift in the balance of power on the court."

"On the other hand, there's the personal. How do you decide to leave the United States Supreme Court?" Wow! How much of this k...

The Wal-Mart case was decided unanimously, but it was 5-4 in a very important way.

Permit me to explain what is a bit complicated. Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23, which governs class action, there is a set of pre...

"The Supreme Court on Monday blocked a massive sex discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart on behalf of women who work there."

WaPo reports: The court ruled unanimously that the lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. cannot proceed as a class action, reversing a decisi...

"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...

"Her womb was a barren desert in which my seed could find no purchase."

April finally comes up with the quote that my quote from Larry Tribe reminded her of. I was riffing on "Neither Steve Breyer nor Ruth G...

"The talk in Washington is what the impending elevation of the former Harvard Law School dean and solicitor general will mean for the capstone of the judiciary."

Asserts David Broder , and I have to laugh. 1. There's the inane elevated tone of the writing: "impending elevation," "ca...

"Kagan is so Manhattan, Scalia is so Queens, Ginsburg is so Brooklyn and Sotomayor is so Bronx."

When Kagan is confirmed, there will be 4 Justices from New York City — but they're not all from the same place. Each is from a differen...

Live-blogging the McCain VP announcement. UPDATE: "MCCAIN PICKS SARAH PALIN."

8:26: I don't know what it says about me, but I got up this morning and didn't think about the McCain VP announcement on my own. It ...

Do you really think Justices Stevens and Ginsburg are about to create Supreme Court vacancies?

Do you imagine that they stay on the Court only because they don't want George Bush replacing them? Here's the AP: The oldest two ju...

McCain's judges.

John McCain gave a speech on judicial appointments yesterday, and it made me want to go back to a conference call he did with bloggers — inc...

"It is better to receive than to give... at least when the subject is guns."

Justice Ginsburg, concurring, characterizes today's opinion in Watson v. United States : For reasons well stated by Justice Scalia in h...

"Justice Ginsburg and Willie Wonka..."

"... separated at birth?"