The Latest Breaking News from Thomas

The Supreme Court held today that the Seventh Amendment right to a civil jury trial in fraud cases was violated when an administrative law judge of the S.E.C. decided the case.

And they charge that Justices Barrett and Kavanaugh "lost the will" to decide the case.

The real dissents are the concurrences by Justices Sotomayor and Jackson.

June 2022 was one victory after another for conservatives. June 2024 seems just the opposite.

Justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett are fracturing over originalism.

THE director of Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has dismissed a claim made by a senior Labour Party candidate that the financial situation of…

In November, I wrote that the Fifth Circuit's Rahimi decision "was a faithful application of Bruen." Seven months later, now having read the Supreme Court's Rahimi decision, I stand by what I wrote. After Justice Thomas's dissent, the most intellectually honest opinion in Rahimi was Justice Jackson's concurrence. Jackson explained…

Chief Justice Roberts announced the Court's per curiam opinion in Gonzales v. Trevino.

Justice Jackson thinks Apprendi was wrongly decided, Justice Gorsuch chides Justice Kavanaugh's fixation on tradition.

Justice Kavanaugh reaches out to resolve that a wealth tax is probably not constitutional.

A few practical thoughts for future cases (all bold emphasis added): [1.] The Court solidly accepts (with only Justice Thomas dissenting) that "the Second Amendment permits the disarmament of individuals who pose a credible threat to the physical safety of others," at least after a judicial finding of such threat.…