SCOTUSblog

1. Petition of the day
   The petition of the day is:
2. Opinion recap: Saying little on retroactivity
   Analysis Amid signs that the ruling was a very easy one to reach, the Supreme Court on Monday allowed the state of Michigan to deny a man accused of murder a legal defense that he previously had but then lost the right to use at a second trial.  Allowing the withdrawal of a mental defect defense after [...]
3. Court to rule on government prayer
   Returning for the first time in three decades to the constitutionality of saying prayers at the opening of a government meeting, the Supreme Court on Monday took on a case involving Town Board sessions in the upstate New York community named Greece, a city of about 100,000 people.  For years, it followed the practice of having local clergy [...]
4. Live blog of orders and opinions (Sponsored by Bloomberg Law) (Updated: Completed)
   With the help of our reporter, Lyle Denniston, we will be live blogging as orders and opinions are issued today. Once you see the window and our initial welcome, we ask that you do not refresh your browser. Updates will appear without the need for refreshing. Live blog of orders and opinions
5. Monday round-up
   Briefly: As part of her outreach to poor and immigrant parents, Justice Sonia Sotomayor spoke recently at the New York City Department of Education’s English Language Learning Parent Conference, where she urged the audience to work hard to place their children on the path to college and career success.  Mark Walsh covers the event for [...]
6. This week at the Court
   On Monday the Court granted five new cases and issued four opinions in argued cases. The archived Live Blog is here. On Thursday the Justices will meet for their May 23 Conference. Our list of “Petitions to watch” for that Conference is here.
7. Solicitor General files invitation briefs for June 6 Conference
   Every Term, thousands of litigants file petitions for certiorari, asking the Justices to review their cases on the merits.  In roughly a dozen, the Justices initially neither grant nor deny review.  Instead, they issue an order “invit[ing] the Solicitor General to file a brief expressing the views of the United States” – also known as [...]
8. Petition of the day
   The petition of the day is:
9. Ask the author: Floyd Abrams & his fighting faith
   The following is a series of questions posed to Floyd Abrams by Ronald Collins on the occasion of the publication of Abrams’s new book, Friend of the Court: On the Front Lines with the First Amendment (Yale University Press, 2013). Welcome, Floyd.  Thank you for taking the time to participate in this Question and Answer [...]
10. Survey results
    We asked, over two thousand of you responded, and – as we will discuss further down in this post – we are already at work to try to implement some of your suggestions.  Many thanks to all of you who took the time to fill out our online survey. We thought that some of you [...]