You can't demonstrate here. This is the Supreme Court.

81 people were arrested for demonstrating in front of the Supreme Court today.

Come on, everybody. Let's study outdoors.

Lovely! Uh-oh... It's beautiful out there, but really, can you study outdoors? Yesterday, a student said let's do the class outdoors...

The jury must be able to "give meaningful effect or a 'reasoned moral response' to a defendant's mitigating evidence."

Wrote Justice Stevens , as the Supreme Court overturned three death sentences. Chief Justice Roberts writes in dissent: "'Whatever ...

Another Monday.

Just another manic Monday. ... ... as the Spring semester crashes in toward a close. Time for cutting pages out of the syllabus and thinking...

Are you, like me, always clicking on news stories about speeches given by Supreme Court justices...

... and finding that nothing interesting was said? It's so predictable. Sometimes I wonder why I have the Google Alerts I have. Actually...

"Given the lack of holdings from this Court regarding the potentially prejudicial effect of spectators’ courtroom conduct..."

The Supreme Court issued its opinion today in Carey v. Musladin, the case about spectators at a murder trial who wore buttons showing the p...

"It is not the presidency that 'won.' Instead, it is the judiciary that lost."

John Yoo has a new piece about the new military commission law, which Bush signed on Tuesday: The new law is, above all, a stinging rebuke ...

"A typical jury will understand that the victim is going to have a family, and they're going to be sorry he's dead..."

"... and they might be there at the trial. The buttons don't seem to add much to what the jury will derive from seeing the family s...

The compromise on the detainee legislation.

It's not easy to evaluate the compromise on the detainee legislation . You've certainly got to look beyond the President's consp...

Supreme Court invalidates Guantanamo military commissions.

SCOTUSblog reports: The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Congress did not take away the Court's authority to rule on the military co...

"Why is [Scalia] blogging his concurrence....?"

Read Dahlia Lithwick's write-up of yesterday's death penalty case, Kansas v. Marsh , in which the court upholds a state law that re...

The lethal injection case.

Linda Greenhouse writes about yesterday's lethal injection case, Hill v. McDonough: The case was filed under the Civil Rights Act of 18...

Picture buttons at a murder trial.

Does it violate the rights of a criminal defendant if the jurors see family members in court wearing buttons with a picture of the victim? T...

The argument in Hamdan.

SCOTUSblog describes today's oral argument in the Hamdan case: For the most part, the session was subdued and understated, especially g...

A quick setback for Padilla.

The Supreme Court agreed today to let the government transfer Jose Padilla to from a military to civilian custody. The United States Court ...

That Alito/Scalia contrast again.

Here 's a free link to get to Akiba Covitz's TNR piece saying why Alito is not the same as Scalia. The article mostly contrasts the ...

Day 4 of the Roberts hearings.

I'm finally getting around to my TiVo of the 4th day of the hearings. I'm not going to be able to check everyone's work, so I th...

The constitutionality of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act.

SCOTUSblog notes (via How Appealing ) that the Ninth Circuit is inquiring into the constitutionality of the changes to the habeas standard ...

Waiting for grilled cheese.

Marigold Café Originally uploaded by Ann Althouse . So here I am at the Marigold Café, with my casebook open to the habeas corpus c...

Teaching the Schiavo case.

I wonder if lawprofs are going to teach the Schiavo case in their classes, at least this semester, when the issue is very present in everyon...