In her 2019 testimony before a subcommittee on the House Committee on Appropriations, Justice Elena Kagan – ostensibly on Capitol Hill to discuss the Supreme Court’s budget – told lawmakers that Chief Justice John Roberts was studying a code of conduct fo
The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here. Litigants in federal courts may unwittingly find themselves in a “finality trap,” a tr