
The Based Direction
Rooker-Feldman, pronounced dead two decades ago, turns out to be alive — and the Court's formalists split right down the middle.
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Rooker-Feldman, pronounced dead two decades ago, turns out to be alive — and the Court's formalists split right down the middle.

We cover two immigration wins in one day: the Court clears the way to end TPS for Haiti and Syria, then decides asylum turns on whether you...

We break down Chatrie v. United States, the Court's ruling that a geofence warrant is a Fourth Amendment search — what it does to the third-...

The birthright-citizenship order goes down — but the vote is closer than anyone bet, and the four dissenters can't agree on why.

Humphrey's Executor falls and independent agencies lose for-cause protection — but the Fed, alone, somehow survives.

We're in triage mode as the Court clears its end-of-term backlog. We run through the week's opinion dump before focusing on two cases that l...

The big opinions are starting to drop, and we're doing our best to keep pace. We first discuss Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections...

We open with the usual grab bag—the "foot fault" pun buried in a Justice Thomas opinion, reading Justice Alito's clerk-hiring tea leaves, an...

After puzzling over an interesting follow-up question about Pitchford v. Cain, we unpack a summary vacatur in Whitton v. Dixon . We then spe...

The Court has been busy, and we somehow manage to cover a number of developments with unpredictable efficiency. We talk about the Court's la...

Live from the American Law Institute with Pam Karlan, we untangle a chaotic stretch of the interim docket—the Alabama redistricting GVR, Vir...

We dissect the Supreme Court’s Louisiana v. Callais decision and its sweeping narrowing of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, exploring how...

We cover leaked SCOTUS memos, shadow docket reversals, Sotomayor's Kavanaugh apology, and a contractor preemption case narrowing an infamous...

We recap and reflect on the oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara (the birthright citizenship case) and then analyze the Court's recent decisio...

We're live at WashU Law's Admitted Students Day! After catching up on some shadow docket activity, we dig into Olivier v. City of Brandon ,...

We announce an exciting new partnership with SCOTUSblog and introduce the show to new listeners. We then return to the mysterious origins of...

It's our live show at the University of Chicago! Hosted by the University of Chicago Federalist Society, we discuss this week's big shadow-d...

With unpredictable timeliness, we have a quasi-emergency episode on the 170-page tariffs decision, Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump . Come...

We're back for another live show at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, hosted by the Northwestern Federalist Society! We discuss the t...

With shocking and uncharacteristic efficiency, we manage to discuss three merits opinions and one orders list dissent in only 47 minutes. Sp...