July 2024 Archive

The morning read for Wednesday, July 31

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court.

Progressivism and Eugenics in the Court of Justice Holmes

The morning read for Tuesday, July 30

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court.

The morning read for Monday, July 29

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court.

Biden proposes Supreme Court reforms

President Joe Biden on Monday proposed three reforms to the Supreme Court.

The morning read for Friday, July 26

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court.

Court schedules first cases for 2024-25 term

The Supreme Court will hear a challenge to the Biden administration’s efforts to regulate so-called “ghost guns” in the first week of the 2024-25 term in October, followed the next day by an unusual death-penalty case – in which the state’s attorney general supports the condemned man’s efforts to overturn his conviction and sentence.

Justices appoint former clerk to argue First Step Act cases

The Supreme Court on Friday afternoon appointed a former clerk to Justice Samuel Alito (who also served as a clerk to then-Judge Neil Gorsuch on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit) to defend a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit in a pair of cases involving the

Can Kamala Take the Money … Legally?

The morning read for Thursday, July 25

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court.

The morning read for Wednesday, July 24

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Wednesday morning read: Trump allies crush misinformation research despite Supreme Court loss (Cat Zakrzewski & Naomi Nix, The Washington Post) Bears, Fish, and Wolves’ New Predator: the Supreme Court?

The morning read for Tuesday, July 23

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court.

The morning read for Monday, July 22

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Monday morning read: California Cities Rethink Homelessness Tactics After Supreme Court Ruling (Patrick Sisson, Bloomberg) Can Robert Menendez’s Bribery Conviction Survive an Appeal?

Federal government asks court to allow enforcement of Title IX rule

The Biden administration on Monday asked the Supreme Court to temporarily put on hold a portion of two orders issued by federal trial courts in Louisiana and Kentucky that prohibit the Department of Education from enforcing any part of an April 2024 rule implementing Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which bars sex discrimination in education programs that receive federal funding.

The morning read for Friday, July 19

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read: US appeals court to reconsider ban on felons possessing guns (Nate Raymond, Reuters) Biden may endorse big Supreme Court reform.

Lobotomizing the DOJ

The morning read for Thursday, July 18

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court.

With Good Neighbor Plan in jeopardy, states, EPA ask: where should the agency’s opponents go to court?

The Petitions of the Week column highlights some of the cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here.

Court blocks Texas execution

The Supreme Court blocked the execution of Ruben Gutierrez, who was sentenced to die after 7 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday for the 1998 stabbing death of 85-year-old Escolastica Harrison in Brownsville, Tex. In a brief unsigned order released to reporters just after 6:30 p.m.

The morning read for Wednesday, July 17

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court.

INDICTMENT WATCH: Judge Cannon’s Bonkers-Adjacent Decision to Dismiss Trump’s Case

The morning read for Tuesday, July 16

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court.

The Assassination Attempt

The morning read for Monday, July 15

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court.

‘Who Has the Pen?’

The morning read for Friday, July 12

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court.

The morning read for Thursday, July 11

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Thursday morning read: The Supreme Court limited federal power. Health care is feeling the shock waves.

The morning read for Wednesday, July 10

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court.

Is ‘Text, History, and Tradition’ Alive and Well?

The morning read for Tuesday, July 9

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court.

Business owners seek to reclaim cash seized in drug bust

The Petitions of the Week column highlights some of the cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here.

The morning read for Monday, July 8

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court.

The morning read for Friday, July 5

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court.

Winning Without Winning

The morning read for Wednesday, July 3

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court.

Roberts court hands major wins to Trump, conservative movement in 2023-24 term

Former President Donald Trump loomed large over the Supreme Court’s 2023-24 term. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee for 2024 brought two cases to the justices and fared well in both; Trump could also benefit from the decision in a third case, brought by a defendant charged in the Jan. 6 attacks on the U.S. Capitol.

The morning read for Tuesday, July 2

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court.

Justices add five cases out of clean-up conference

The Supreme Court on Tuesday added five new cases – two of which will be argued together – to its docket for the 2024-25 term. The justices declined to take up a number of notable cases, including challenges to Illinois’s regulation of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and a challenge to the power of federal administrative agencies, here the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Supreme Court expands time frame to sue federal agencies

The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that a North Dakota truck stop can bring a challenge to a regulation issued 13 years ago by the Federal Reserve Board.

Trump Is ‘Absolutely Immune’ … Kind Of

Justices rule Trump has some immunity from prosecution

This article was updated on July 1 at 3:32 p.m. In a historic decision, a divided Supreme Court on Monday ruled that former presidents can never be prosecuted for actions relating to the core powers of their office, and that there is at least a presumption that they have immunity for their official acts more broadly.

Court sends social media moderation cases back to lower courts

The Supreme Court on Monday sent a pair of challenges to laws in Texas and Florida that would regulate how large social media companies control content posted on their sites back to the lower courts for another look.

The morning read for Monday, July 1

The court will release the remaining opinions for the October 2023-24 term this morning. We will be live at 9:30 a.m. EDT. Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court.

A dramatic last day in the courtroom

As I reach the courtroom on Monday, Michael Dreeben of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office has already taken a seat in the bar section. He can be pretty sure he will get the opinion in Trump v. United States today. Smith, who was present for oral arguments in late April, is not here today.

Fourteen new relists for the end-of-term mop-up conference

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.

Announcement of opinions for Monday, July 1 (complete)

On Monday, July 1, we were live as the court released the remaining opinions in argued cases from the 2023-24 term. In Corner Post, Inc. v. Board of Governors, the court […]