Learn about the Judiciary Act of 1789, its definition, significance, and how it shaped the U.S. federal system.

A review of the US Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. CASA, Inc., which held that federal district courts’ universal preliminary injunctions that enjoin government officials from implementing and ...

Cases and Controversies is a recurring series by Carolyn Shapiro, primarily focusing on the effects of the Supreme Court’s ...

Justice Amy Coney Barrett delivers a welcome rebuke to Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and every other activist judge who thinks it is their job to make law ...

This is part of SCOTUSblog’s term in review series, in which scholars analyze some of the most significant cases of the ...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Friday, June 27, that federal district courts may not issue “universal” injunctions (the term ...

The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed a constitutional limit on lower courts’ authority, a big win for the president and the ...

When presidents have tried to make big changes through executive orders, they have often hit a roadblock: A single federal judge, whether located in Seattle or Miami or anywhere in between, could ...

Constitutional rights have to be enforceable. They can’t rely on the goodwill of the government. This utter lack of ...

In Trump v. CASA Inc., a 6-3 majority ruled that federal courts likely lack the authority to issue “universal injunctions” that block government policies nationwide.

The U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision in the birthright citizenship case, Trump v. CASA, Inc., but only on the issue ...