SCOTUS NEWSCourt News
Will the Supreme Court hear Ghislaine Maxwell’s case?
While President Donald Trump fields questions about a potential pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, the Supreme Court is also playing a role in the debate over her future.
July 2025 Archive
Showing 1–50 of 83 items published in July 2025, most recent first.
WHAT WE'RE READING
The morning read for Thursday, July 31
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Thursday morning read:
Mississippi urges court to uphold restrictions on children’s access to social media
Mississippi on Wednesday urged the Supreme Court to leave in place restrictions on access by young people to major social media sites like Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat.
Cases and Controversies
SCOTUS FOCUSExplainers
What heavy metal band is each Supreme Court justice?
Those who know me well know that two things I love are the Supreme Court and heavy metal (not necessarily in that order). So this column asks the obvious question: What heavy metal band would each justice be? Some ground rules.
WHAT WE'RE READING
The morning read for Wednesday, July 30
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Wednesday morning read:
SCOTUS FOCUSExplainers
Where the Supreme Court’s two most conservative justices part ways
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want a more conservative court, go together. That twist on the popular proverb, or something like it, could be used to describe the relationship between Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, the Supreme Court’s most closely aligned — and most ideologically conservative — pair.
WHAT WE'RE READING
The morning read for Tuesday, July 29
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Tuesday morning read:
The most important cases of the next term
When the justices return to the bench to hear oral arguments in the fall, they will tackle several hot-button issues, including state bans on the participation by transgender athletes on women’s and girls’ sports teams, voting rights, religion, campaign-finance laws, and the death penalty.
WHAT WE'RE READING
The morning read for Monday, July 28
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Monday morning read:
Rights and Responsibilities
WHAT WE'RE READING
The morning read for Friday, July 25
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read:
Trump administration urges Supreme Court to pause order requiring payment of grants linked to DEI initiatives
Updated on August 1 at 9:57 am The Trump administration came once again to the Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon and asked the justices to pause an order by a federal court in Massachusetts that would require the National Institutes of Health to pay grants that NIH had terminated because they
Supreme Court pauses ruling that potentially weakens the Voting Rights Act
The Supreme Court on Thursday put on hold, at least for now, a ruling by a federal appeals court that could limit the power of the Voting Rights Act.
SCOTUS FOCUSExplainers
A brief history of Supreme Court rulings on hair
One of the cases the Supreme Court will hear during the 2025-26 term started with a haircut. Damon Landor’s head was forcibly shaved in 2020 after he arrived at Raymond Laborde Correctional Center, part of the Louisiana prison system.
WHAT WE'RE READING
The morning read for Thursday, July 24
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Thursday morning read:
Group challenges restrictions on children’s access to social media
A tech industry group came to the Supreme Court this week, asking the justices to temporarily block Mississippi from enforcing restrictions on minors’ access to social media against several major social media sites, including Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, X, Reddit, and YouTube.
Supreme Court sides with Trump administration in battle over ability to remove agency commissioners
The Supreme Court on Wednesday cleared the way for the Trump administration to remove three of the five members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission from office while their challenges to their firings continue.
WHAT WE'RE READING
The morning read for Wednesday, July 23
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Wednesday morning read:
North Dakota urges Supreme Court to leave in place decision that could limit the power of the Voting Rights Act
Lawyers for North Dakota on Tuesday urged the court to leave in place a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit that two Native American tribes (along with individual voters) say could “knee-cap Congress’s most important civil rights statute” – the federal Voting Rights Act.
WHAT WE'RE READING
The morning read for Tuesday, July 22
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Tuesday morning read:
The most intense dissents of the term
During the 2024-25 term, the court was unanimous 42% of the time in its Opinions of the Court. In the remaining 58% of such cases, the justices’ dissents were typically restrained and mundane. In a small number of cases, however, the dissents were somewhat more … critical.
WHAT WE'RE READING
The morning read for Monday, July 21
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Monday morning read:
Where does Trump’s birthright citizenship order currently stand?
Three weeks after the Supreme Court ruled to limit the use of nationwide, or universal, injunctions in a case stemming from President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship, a new nationwide injunction is blocking the order. Confused? You’re not the only one.
WHAT WE'RE READING
The morning read for Friday, July 18
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read:
The emergency docket goes quiet – for now
On Tuesday, Justice Sonia Sotomayor denied a bid by an Ecuadorian national to stave off his extradition to that country to face sexual abuse charges. One day earlier, the full court – over a dissent by the three Democratic appointees – cleared the way for the Trump administration to substantially reduce the size of the Department of Education.
WHAT WE'RE READING
The morning read for Thursday, July 17
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Thursday morning read:
Immigration Matters
WHAT WE'RE READING
The morning read for Wednesday, July 16
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Wednesday morning read: Federal health agency finalizes mass layoffs after Supreme Court lifts pause (Zac Anderson, USA Today) Trump Admin. Starts Moving CTE to Labor Dept.
Group challenges ruling that potentially weakens the Voting Rights Act
Updated on July 16 at 12:59 pm A group of plaintiffs challenging North Dakota’s state legislative maps came to the Supreme Court on Tuesday, asking the justices to block a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit that could weaken the power of the federal Voting Rights Act.
The Ten Commandments return to classrooms: What will the Supreme Court do?
Texas recently became the third state in two years, following Louisiana and Arkansas, to pass a law requiring Ten Commandments displays in public school classrooms. Soon after — like the other states that had passed such a law — it was sued over this policy.
WHAT WE'RE READING
The morning read for Tuesday, July 15
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Tuesday morning read:
Supreme Court clears the way for Trump administration to massively reduce the size of the Department of Education
The Supreme Court on Monday granted the Trump administration’s request to temporarily pause an order by a federal judge in Massachusetts that would require the Department of Education to reinstate nearly 1,400 employees who were fired earlier this year as part of the department’s efforts to reduce the size of its workforce.
TERM IN REVIEWTerm in Review
Expertise after Chevron: A potentially pyrrhic victory on executive control over preventive care
This is part of SCOTUSblog’s term in review series, in which scholars analyze some of the most significant cases of the 2024-25 Supreme Court term. With so much going on, it might have been easy to miss that the Affordable Care Act made its eighth major trip to the Supreme Court this term.
WHAT WE'RE READING
The morning read for Monday, July 14
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Monday morning read:
Federal employees urge Supreme Court to keep order in place preventing their firing
Three members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission who were fired by President Donald Trump in May urged the Supreme Court on Friday to leave in place an order by a federal judge in Maryland that required the Trump administration to reinstate them to their jobs.
WHAT WE'RE READING
The morning read for Friday, July 11
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read:
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