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The Seventh Amendment guarantees a right to a jury trial in “suits at common law” – that is, lawsuits seeking legal remedies, such as money, rather than a remedy (known as equitable relief) that orders a defendant to do something or to stop doing something – in which $20 or more is at stake. In 2024, the Supreme Court ruled in SEC v. Jarkesy that the Securities and Exchange Commission’s imposition of fines in its administrative proceedings as a penalty for securities fraud violated that guarantee. On Tuesday, April 21, the justices will consider whether that same reasoning applies to fines that the Federal Communications Commission imposes for violations of federal communications laws. FCC v.

Happy publication day to SCOTUSblog’s own Sarah Isgur. Her new book Last Branch Standing offers “[a] myth-busting glimpse into the inner workings of the Supreme Court.” At the Court The court will next hear arguments on Monday, the first day of its April sitting. The court has not yet indicated when it will next announce opinions. Morning Reads Alaska man to plead guilty to threatening six US Supreme Court justices Nate Raymond, Reuters Additional details are emerging about a plea deal reached between an Alaska man and the prosecutors who charged him with making “threats against a judge and knowingly possess[ing] a handgun despite a prior felony conviction.” Panos Anastasiou, 77, will “plead guilty to threatening to assault and murder six U.S.

Over the last two months, we have laid out in detail our ideas about the key issues in the birthright citizenship case, Trump v. Barbara. Today, we compare our arguments and analysis to what the justices asked and said at oral argument on April 1. As it turned out, virtually every justice asked or said at least one thing – and several justices asked or said several things – that accord with our arguments and analysis. We make no claim, of course, that our writings in February and March directly or indirectly influenced any justice in any way. Perhaps many of our ideas were generally in the air prior to oral argument. Perhaps we have been channeling the justices, not vice versa. Many other explanations are also imaginable.

The Second Amendment states that “[a] well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the