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Eight days ago, the Roberts court handed the Trump administration its first major loss on the interim docket in several months. Throughout this term, the court will also be deciding several important issues relating to presidential power.
Happy New Year! SCOTUStoday will be back in your inboxes (and we will resume our regular programming) on Monday, Jan. 5. SCOTUS Quick Hits Chief Justice John Roberts is expected to release a year-end report on the federal judiciary today. Amy will be reporting on it.
On Jan. 21, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case of Lisa Cook, a member of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors whom President Donald Trump has attempted to fire based on unproven allegations of mortgage fraud.
On this day in 1853, the U.S. minister to Mexico and the president of Mexico signed the Gadsden Treaty, which addressed a dispute over the location of the U.S.-Mexico border.
On this day in 1971, former Justice John Marshall Harlan II died at age 72, just three months after retiring from the court due to declining health. Among his many accomplishments, Harlan is the namesake (along with Justice John Marshall Harlan I) for Executive Editor Zach Shemtob’s first child (and, yes, we realize how nerdy/dorky/dweeby that is).
Each holiday season, as peppermint mochas return to coffee shop menus and mall Santas take their posts, a familiar kind of religious freedom conflict appears in the news: disputes over nativity scenes.
Merry Christmas to all who celebrate it! SCOTUStoday will be back in your inboxes on Monday, Dec. 29. We’ll be sending abridged editions from Monday to Wednesday, Dec. 31, and then taking that Thursday and Friday off. We will resume our regularly scheduled programming on Monday, Jan. 5.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday left in place a ruling by a federal judge in Chicago that bars the Trump administration from deploying National Guard troops in Illinois.
The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here.
The first time a Christmas tree was placed in the Great Hall of the Supreme Court Building was 60 years ago, in 1965. “The Court has continued this holiday tradition ever since, with decorations added by Court employees.
Today marks three months since we launched the SCOTUStoday newsletter. Thank you so much for supporting our work — we are so grateful for your readership! A reminder: This is an abridged edition of SCOTUStoday, and we will also be sending abridged editions tomorrow and Wednesday.
The Supreme Court on Friday turned down a request from the Trump administration in a dispute over a policy limiting speaking engagements by immigration judges.
We haven’t had a film review on SCOTUSblog for quite some time now. Given that, we figured Bloomberg Law’s “Supreme Advocacy: What It Takes to Argue at the Supreme Court,” was the perfect candidate.
It may be Christmas and Hanukkah season, but I’ve got a Supreme Court ghost story to tell. It comes from Justice Antonin Scalia, who warned of a “ghoul in a late-night horror movie that repeatedly sits up in its grave and shuffles abroad.” Scalia wasn’t describing the ghosts of angry plaintiffs wandering the halls of One First Street.
Here’s a feel-good story for your Friday morning enjoyment: Judges and justices in Minnesota meet twice a month to “jam” in an old law library with their rock band, the Reasonable Doubts.
Please note that SCOTUS Outside Opinions constitute the views of outside contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SCOTUSblog or its staff. Updated on Jan. 15 at 6:47 p.m.
It has been slightly over six weeks since the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the challenge to President Donald Trump’s power to impose sweeping tariffs in a series of executive orders earlier this year.
On this day in 1944, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Korematsu v. United States, holding that the president and Congress did not exceed their war-time powers when they forced certain Americans of Japanese descent to move to relocation camps during World War II.
It’s the age-old question: Does the Supreme Court decide its cases based on rank partisanship rather than legal principles? Many scholars and commentators unhesitatingly answer in the affirmative.
Yesterday, Franklin the Turtle made an appearance on Reason’s Volokh Conspiracy blog. Here’s why. SCOTUS Quick Hits The court could issue decisions in the interim docket cases on President Donald Trump’s effort to deploy the National Guard to Illinois and a dispute between the Trump administration and immigration judges at any time.
Sixty years ago, on Dec. 16, 1965, students Mary Beth Tinker and Christopher Eckhardt were sent home from school for wearing black armbands to protest the U.S. government’s policy in Vietnam. They, along with Mary Beth’s brother, John, went on to win a major Supreme Court case on free speech.
The Supreme Court on Monday morning agreed to take up the case of a Mississippi man who contends that he was sentenced to death in violation of the Constitution’s ban on racial discrimination in jury selection.
You hear a lot about the 12 days of Christmas this time of year, but what about the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution? On this day in 1791, the Bill of Rights was ratified.
This morning, Friday, Dec. 12, the justices are gathering for their final regularly scheduled private conference of the year to discuss cases and vote on petitions for review.
As we regularly note, we read a lot of legal news as we prepare this newsletter. Here’s the most memorable headline we saw this week: No Religious Discrimination Shown in Enforcement of Septic Tank Code.
Yesterday’s argument in FS Credit Opportunities Corp. v Saba Capital Master Fund showed a bench surprisingly receptive of private parties having the ability to sue investment companies under the Investment Company Act of 1940.
A group of immigration judges on Wednesday afternoon urged the Supreme Court to leave in place a ruling by a federal appeals court that sent a dispute over a policy limiting their speaking engagements back to a federal trial court.
I am pleased to introduce SCOTUSblog readers to the Interim Docket Blog, where Will Baude, Dan Epps, I, and surely others, will comment on Supreme Court interim orders and related matters.
We are excited to announce that we’ve launched an Interim Docket Blog, which will feature analysis of interim docket developments from Jack Goldsmith, William Baude, and Daniel Epps. Goldsmith is a professor at Harvard Law School and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday wrestled with the case of an Alabama man who has been on that state’s death row for more than two decades. The question before the justices was how the lower courts should have addressed Joseph Smith’s claim that he is intellectually disabled and therefore cannot be executed when Smith has taken five separate IQ tests over a span of almost 40 years.
The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here.