Robert Bork has died.

He was 85. From the above-linked NYT obituary: Judge Bork, a bear of a man with a scraggly red beard and untamed frizz on a balding pate who...

6 highlights from Chris Wallace's great interview with Justice Scalia.

From the transcript of this morning's Fox News Sunday (and video ). 1. Obamacare. Since Scalia is on the show to promote his new book ...

Wouldn't it be wonderful if Chief Justice Roberts did switch his vote?

"There has been tons of speculation in the last day that Chief Justice Roberts changed his vote at some late stage in the Affordable Ca...

"It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices."

That's the quote from Roberts' opinion that he extracted up front as he began the announcement of the opinion today. There's mat...

"Ponchos and sombreros: Partygoers don ‘insensitive’ attire despite student efforts."

Imagine! Student efforts failing to sear prick the conscience of the Mifflin Street Block Party people. The student group that wants respec...

Stripping the political rhetoric out of Obama's preemptive attack on a Supreme Court that would strike down the ACA...

... Attorney General Eric Holder files the 3-page, single-spaced letter demanded by the 5th Circuit explaining the Administrations actual po...

This week, Paul Clement argues that a federal statute is constitutional.

After last week's superb performance attacking the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act in the Supreme Court, former Solicitor G...

5th Circuit reacts to Obama's remarks on the Supreme Court case and orders response on whether the Administration thinks courts may strike down a federal law.

Jan Crawford reports: Mr. Obama all but threw down the gauntlet with the justices, saying he was "confident" the Court would not ...

"It must be nice living in a fantasy world where every law you like is constitutional and every Supreme Court decision you don't is 'activist.'"

Said Senator Orrin Hatch , commenting on President Obama's preemptive attack on a Supreme Court opinion that would strike down the healt...

The legal left sounds like Newt Gingrich?

A Wall Street Journal editorial says: [T]he left has taken to mau-mauing the Justices by saying that if they overturn the [Obamacare] mandat...

Do you care about Congress's limited, enumerated powers and the idea of judicially enforceable federalism?

Or do you think that's all a lot of conservative bull that we shouldn't have to pay attention to? — I ask Bob Wright, who asserts a ...

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 2012 congressional redistricting cycle following the 2010 Census... seems likely to make much less difference than many of us expected."

Writes Michael Barone: I predicted that this cycle, like the 2002 cycle, would produce significant gains for Republicans. Their success in e...

Wisconsin Republican legislators — in federal court — argue that state constitutional law forbids redrawing the election districts they drew last year.

The case, brought by Democrats and Voces de la Frontera (an immigrant rights group), is before a 3-judge panel (at the trial level) , and ye...

Greta Van Susteren asks if anyone is demanding that Justices Prosser and Bradley step down.

"Are any of the newspaper asking for them to step down? People have very serious disputes and their whole lives depend on decisions on ...

"The hope that the next justice will be a check on the power of corporations is entirely appropriate."

Writes Jeffrey Rosen: After all, Stevens holds the seat that was previously occupied by William O. Douglas and Louis Brandeis, two of the le...

"Professors Found to Keep Political Views Quiet, but Students Detect Them."

Now, there's an article I'd love to talk about, on one of my favorite subjects, but it's in The Chronicle of Higher Education , ...

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...

On classroom advocacy, diversity, and neutrality.

Lawprof Stanley Fish is doing guest columns this month in the NYT, and today -- TimesSelect link -- he's denouncing teachers who approp...

"We wanted gender diversity. We wanted racial diversity, economic diversity, age diversity."

Lawyer Robert A. Levy talks about assembling the plaintiffs and putting together the case for the successful attack on the D.C. gun ban : ...