It's become increasingly common for the Supreme Court's defenders to attack critics for seeking to delegitimize the Court. But when are legitimacy critiques ... legitimate? I sketch out some thoughts.

A few days ago, my co-blogger Josh Blackman posted some very interesting remarks about forum selection and judge-shopping from Judge Reed O'Connor

Same-sex marriage became legal in more states through cert. denials (18) than through the Court's June 2015 ruling in Obergefell (13). Strategic voting by Chief Justice Roberts is a big part of why.

New reporting from the New York Times raises some troubling questions about how (and how much) Chief Justice Roberts understands the Supreme Court's relationship with the public.

Speaking at the Tenth Circuit Conference, Justice Gorsuch tied the Court's declining output to the declining number of appeals being filed with the justices. There's one *big* flaw with that claim.

Four years after the Court ushered in the end of the "Lochner era," a 1941 ruling reinforced what that shift *meant* with regard to Congress's power to shape the policies of most workplaces

A recent effort to defend the Fifth Circuit's SCOTUS track record usefully (if unintentionally) highlights several of the most common methodological errors in efforts to marshal Supreme Court data

If it feels like the Supreme Court is handling a larger number of significant emergency applications during its summer recess than in any recent summer, that's only because it is.

The justices' efforts to explain their votes with respect to a major ruling on a pair of emergency applications raise more questions than they answer—again

The latest battle over student loans to reach the justices underscores the procedural, substantive, and optical consequences of how the Court has routinized emergency applications