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WASHINGTON - The last Supreme Court term ended with a constitutional cliffhanger. In a pair of cases that had the potential to reshape American democracy, the justices refused to decide whether election maps can be so warped by politics that they violate the Constitution. | In a 5-4 ruling along the usual lines, the Supreme Court backed a strict interpretation of an immigration detention law. Justice Breyer, dissenting from the bench, said the majority had betrayed basic American values. https://t.co/BYynaxHEQN | 1 |
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear challenges to "net neutrality" regulations adopted in 2015 by the Federal Communications Commission during the Obama administration and upheld by a federal appeals court the next year. | Today at #SCOTUS:
10 a.m. Opinions
10:15-ish Arguments in U.S. v. Microsoft, on prosecutors' access to digital data held abroad
11:15-ish Fane Lozman, world-class gadfly and floating-home owner, returns for rare second act, now on First Amendment retaliation | 1 |
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Monday on President Trump's efforts, in the final days of his presidency, to exclude unauthorized immigrants from the calculations used to allocate seats in the House. | Last month, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that a Muslim inmate could be put to death without his imam present.
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Tonight, the court voted 7-2 to stay the execution of a Buddhist inmate who wanted his spiritual adviser present.
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WASHINGTON - In the summer of 2020, as the pandemic raged and the presidential election neared, Michael D. Cohen, President Donald J. Trump's onetime lawyer and fixer, was put to a choice. Mr. Cohen wanted to serve out the balance of his three-year sentence, for campaign finance violations and other crimes, at home. | In today's paper, a special report on the 50th anniversary of the publication of the Pentagon Papers, with a fascinating oral history, smart reflections from @SangerNYT and @peterbakernyt and my look at the legacy of the Supreme Court decision
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WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday upheld Ohio's aggressive efforts to purge its voting rolls, siding with Republicans in the latest partisan battle over how far states can go in imposing restrictions on voting. | WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a last-ditch attempt by former President Donald J. Trump to shield his financial records, issuing a brief, unsigned order that ended Mr. Trump's bitter 18-month battle to stop prosecutors in Manhattan from poring over his tax returns as they investigate possible financi... | 1 |
Supreme Court asks for more briefs in case on class-action settlement in which plaintiffs got no money. May not bode well for prospect of a decision on the merits. https://t.co/uX1PRyiQum | Later this month, in Frank v. Gaos, @tedfrank will handle the Supreme Court argument in a case that bears his name. He'll join a small group of lawyers who have argued their own cases. On the whole, they've done pretty well.
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Justice Kavanaugh, addressing the Federalist Society's annual gala dinner, said there is more talk of sports and less of Shakespeare at the justices' lunches since he replaced Justice Kennedy. "To thine own self be true," he said.
https://t.co/etB5dt8C03 | Partisan behavior by en banc courts used to be rare, but that changed in the Trump era. A new study found "a dramatic and strongly statistically significant spike in both partisan splits and partisan reversals."
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WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court returns to the bench on Monday to start a term that will be studded with major cases on gay and transgender rights, immigration, abortion, guns and religion. The rulings will arrive by June, in the midst of an already divisive presidential campaign. | Vying for a place in the Hall of Fame of Bad Timing, Saudi Arabia filed a Supreme Court brief urging the justices to protect the sanctity of its embassies and consulates https://t.co/9mj6d1zFZJ | 1 |
WASHINGTON - President Trump's two Supreme Court appointees went to the same Jesuit high school in the Washington suburbs - at the same time. After attending Ivy League colleges and law schools, they worked as law clerks on the Supreme Court - for the same justice, in the same term. | In case on mysterious grand jury subpoena to a foreign corporation that may be related to the Mueller probe, a request from the corporation to file a partly redacted petition seeking #SCOTUS review https://t.co/5rwMWoj8j4 | 1 |
"In today's world of 'fake news' and near-constant attacks on the traditional media, this Court is especially sensitive to upholding the legal protections that enable the press to act effectively in its essential task of policing the government."
Congrats to @TLoLawFirm https://t.co/JFNsLNyFbs | Supreme Court deals a sharp blow to public unions. By a 5-4 vote, with the conservatives in the majority, the court says government workers cannot be forced to pay fees for collective bargaining. | 1 |
Many of the liberals who say Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made a terrible miscalculation when she decided not to retire are now urging Justice Stephen G. Breyer to step down and let President Biden nominate his replacement. | NEW in Pennsylvania case: "The motion to expedite consideration of the petition for a
writ of certiorari is denied. JUSTICE BARRETT took no part
in the consideration or decision of this motion." | 1 |
WASHINGTON - In the Supreme Court's first ruling on abortion since the arrival of Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the court on Tuesday reinstated a federal requirement that women seeking to end their pregnancies using medications pick up a pill in person from a hospital or medical office. | Justice Kavanaugh, addressing the Federalist Society's annual gala dinner, said there is more talk of sports and less of Shakespeare at the justices' lunches since he replaced Justice Kennedy. "To thine own self be true," he said.
https://t.co/etB5dt8C03 | 1 |
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court said on Thursday that election officials in Pennsylvania may count mailed ballots accompanied by voters' declarations that were signed but not dated. The court's order came in a tight race for a seat on a state court, but it is likely to affect other contests in the state as well. | Waiting for the Supreme Court to act on an emergency request to block a Louisiana law that could severely restrict the number of abortion providers in the state. Last week, Justice Alito entered a stay that put the law on hold. It expires today. https://t.co/RugjvsO5RS | 1 |
WASHINGTON - It seems that every 23 years, or about once in a generation, the Supreme Court considers whether presidents must abide by the rules that govern other citizens. In 1974, it unanimously required President Richard M. Nixon to turn over tapes of conversations in the Oval Office. Twenty-three years later, in 19... | BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to move forward with plans to build a border wall with military funds. Ginsburg, Sotomayor and Kagan dissent. Breyer would allow preparatory work but not construction. https://t.co/VymBFuusbH | 1 |
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court issued rulings on Monday in favor of a death row inmate whose lawyer disobeyed his instructions and a driver of a rental car that was searched without his permission after the police learned he was not listed as an authorized driver on the rental agreement. | "The First Amendment already protects the right to freedom of speech and freedom of association," the panel wrote. "Using the normal canons of interpretation, we would not expect the Free Exercise Clause to be surplusage - it must be doing more work." | 1 |
WASHINGTON - Last summer, the City Council in River Falls, Wis., censured a member for calling an opponent of wearing masks during the coronavirus pandemic "a rancid tub of ignorant contagion." | Before Justice Ginsburg's death, the Supreme Court twice rejected challenges to coronavirus restrictions on church services by 5-to-4 votes. A new case from Brooklyn may show whether Justice Barrett will change the court's direction.
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WASHINGTON - Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. defended the independence and integrity of the federal judiciary on Wednesday, rebuking President Trump for calling a judge who had ruled against his administration's asylum policy "an Obama judge." | Alito: "The Constitution guarantees the free exercise of religion. It says nothing about the freedom to play craps or blackjack, to feed tokens into a slot machine, or to engage in any other game of chance. But the Governor of Nevada apparently has different priorities." | 1 |
By a 7 to 2 vote in 1973, the Supreme Court established a constitutional right to abortion, striking down laws in many states that had barred the procedure. The court said states could not ban abortions before fetal viability, the point at which the fetus can survive outside the womb. That was around 28 weeks at the ti... | The Supreme Court on Monday returned a challenge to Alaska's limits on campaign contributions to a lower court, suggesting that the limits were too low. The court also turned away appeals from defendants in a libel suit over climate change and from Adnan Syed, whose murder conviction was examined by the podcast "Serial... | 1 |
WASHINGTON - President Trump has been consulting the Constitution. In a Twitter post on Monday, he recited part of Article II, Section 4, the provision that allows Congress to remove federal officials who commit "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors." | Many of the liberals who say Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made a terrible miscalculation when she decided not to retire are now urging Justice Stephen G. Breyer to step down and let President Biden nominate his replacement. | 1 |
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court cleared the way on Thursday for prosecutors in New York to seek President Trump's financial records in a stunning defeat for Mr. Trump and a major statement on the scope and limits of presidential power. | From the court: "Justice Breyer took a Covid-19 rapid test this morning prior to oral argument and the result was positive. That test has now been determined to be a false positive . . . Out of an abundance of caution, Justice Breyer participated in oral arguments today." | 1 |
Photoshopping the justices: It turns out the official 2017 Supreme Court group photo is a digital composite. And other tidbits about the 150-year-old tradition of #SCOTUS class photos. https://t.co/OozVPE32j1 | @RMFifthCircuit Basically not a thing. But Burger dissented from the court's decision to treat a stay application in a capital case as a cert. petition and granting it. "I conclude that no issues are presented that merit plenary review by this Court," he wrote.
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WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear challenges to "net neutrality" regulations adopted in 2015 by the Federal Communications Commission during the Obama administration and upheld by a federal appeals court the next year. | WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court cleared the way on Tuesday for a pipeline to transport natural gas from Pennsylvania to New Jersey, ruling that PennEast Pipeline Company, the project's developer, may exercise the federal government's power of eminent domain to condemn land owned by New Jersey. | 1 |
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court returns to the bench on Monday to start a term that will be studded with major cases on gay and transgender rights, immigration, abortion, guns and religion. The rulings will arrive by June, in the midst of an already divisive presidential campaign. | BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to move forward with plans to build a border wall with military funds. Ginsburg, Sotomayor and Kagan dissent. Breyer would allow preparatory work but not construction. https://t.co/VymBFuusbH | 1 |
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a transgender youth's victory in a case on access to high school bathrooms and revived a lawsuit from the parents of a man who had died in police custody. | WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court's decision in Bush v. Gore 20 years ago was supposed to work like the tape recorder in "Mission: Impossible." It was meant to produce a president and then self-destruct. | 1 |
WASHINGTON - Saying that a capital trial in Georgia may have been marred by a juror's racism, the Supreme Court on Monday gave a death row inmate there a fresh chance to argue that he should receive a new trial. | Justice Clarence Thomas misses arguments on the first day of the new term. Chief Justice Roberts said he was "indisposed." A court spokeswoman said he was resting at home, likely with the flu. He'll participate in the day's cases based on briefs and transcripts. | 1 |
NEW: Chief Justice Roberts issues an administrative stay temporarily blocking disclosure of grand jury materials in the Mueller report to the House while the court considers briefs on whether to enter a longer stay. | NEW: Abortion providers in Texas return to #SCOTUS, asking it to require the Fifth Circuit, which has been slow-walking the case, to send the providers' challenge to S.B. 8 back to the district court for prompt action.
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WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it would hear a case on whether the Trump administration can exclude undocumented immigrants from the calculations it will use in apportioning congressional seats. The court put the case on a fast track, saying it will hear arguments on Nov. 30. | WASHINGTON - Around 10 a.m. Thursday, the Supreme Court is set to decide whether President Trump can block the release of his financial records. The ruling, concerning tax returns and other information the president has fought hard to protect, is likely to yield a major statement on the power of presidents to resist de... | 1 |
Just a few rogue votes in the Electoral College could tip the 2020 election. A new petition asks the Supreme Court to rule now on whether "faithless electors" may vote their consciences, before the justices know which candidate would benefit.
https://t.co/1QBzUyV4Yh | @RMFifthCircuit Basically not a thing. But Burger dissented from the court's decision to treat a stay application in a capital case as a cert. petition and granting it. "I conclude that no issues are presented that merit plenary review by this Court," he wrote.
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Chief Justice Roberts, joined by the four conservatives in a 5-4 religion case today: "A State need not subsidize private education. But once a State decides to do so, it cannot disqualify some private schools solely because they are religious."
https://t.co/9xFFSRrUX0 | NEW: A splintered #SCOTUS partly backs a religious challenge to Covid restrictions in California.
Kagan, dissenting: "In the worst public health crisis in a century, this foray into armchair epidemiology cannot end well."
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If Judge Kavanaugh is confirmed, Chief Justice Roberts would become the swing justice. And he "would be the least swinging swing justice in the post-World War II era." https://t.co/enAdlcouQt | "In today's world of 'fake news' and near-constant attacks on the traditional media, this Court is especially sensitive to upholding the legal protections that enable the press to act effectively in its essential task of policing the government."
Congrats to @TLoLawFirm https://t.co/JFNsLNyFbs | 1 |
WASHINGTON - Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court, was welcomed by her colleagues on Friday at an investiture ceremony at the court that was attended by President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. | NEW: Abortion providers in Texas return to #SCOTUS, asking it to require the Fifth Circuit, which has been slow-walking the case, to send the providers' challenge to S.B. 8 back to the district court for prompt action.
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WASHINGTON - Anonymous evaluations of professors by their students can be caustic or catty. But they are also unfailingly candid, and collectively they paint a revealing picture of a teacher's strengths and weaknesses. | NEW: Abortion providers in Texas return to #SCOTUS, asking it to require the Fifth Circuit, which has been slow-walking the case, to send the providers' challenge to S.B. 8 back to the district court for prompt action.
https://t.co/V2wCELF3ZX | 1 |
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Thursday that a Catholic social services agency in Philadelphia could defy city rules and refuse to work with same-sex couples who apply to take in foster children. | WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear a third major challenge to the Affordable Care Act, setting up likely arguments this fall in a case that could wipe out President Barack Obama's signature domestic achievement. | 1 |
WASHINGTON - Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has sat in the center seat on the Supreme Court bench since his arrival in 2005. But only this term did he assume true leadership of the court. | New Sidebar: A college student in Georgia faced discipline for talking about his Christian faith in a campus "free speech zone." The state AG said his speech "arguably rose to the level of 'fighting words.'"
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NEW: Abortion providers in Texas return to #SCOTUS, asking it to require the Fifth Circuit, which has been slow-walking the case, to send the providers' challenge to S.B. 8 back to the district court for prompt action.
https://t.co/V2wCELF3ZX | @NYAppellate @mjs_DC Lots of such decisions in the copyright context from lower courts but no definitive ruling from the Supreme Court. (The Court did strike down a federal law that had sought to allow patent claims.) | 1 |
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court divided 5 to 4 twice along its usual lines on Tuesday, with its conservative majority ruling against the parents of a teenager killed by an American agent shooting across the Mexican border and a death row inmate in Arizona who said his sentencing was unlawful. | WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously ruled against the heirs of Jewish art dealers in Nazi-era Frankfurt who sought to sue Germany in American courts over artifacts they say the dealers were forced to sell for a third of their value. | 1 |
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court upheld President Trump's ban on travel from several predominantly Muslim countries, delivering to the president on Tuesday a political victory and an endorsement of his power to control immigration at a time of political upheaval about the treatment of migrants at the Mexican border. | Last month, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that a Muslim inmate could be put to death without his imam present.
https://t.co/PZYs6Edrvx
Tonight, the court voted 7-2 to stay the execution of a Buddhist inmate who wanted his spiritual adviser present.
https://t.co/i8ZNr9sX04 | 1 |
Unnamed donors, sitting judges, secrecy pledges and loyalty oaths at Heritage Foundation "training academy" for law clerks. After questions from The Times, the passages below were deleted from the application materials.
https://t.co/VKabsCzrEw https://t.co/o7LfTutAw1 | BREAKING: Justice Ginsburg has been hospitalized for treatment of acute cholecystitis, a benign gallbladder condition, at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, the Supreme Court said. She plans to participate in tomorrow's arguments by phone from the hospital. | 1 |
WASHINGTON - The first woman to serve on the Supreme Court was just 75, young by its standards, and still sharp and vigorous when she left. But she gave up the job she loved, along with extraordinary power, to guide and comfort her husband, who was struggling with Alzheimer's disease. | @ChrisRickerd Juxtaposed with 23 senators, sure. And unlike DOMA, the BLAG was unanimous across partisan lines. And institutions are by their nature represented by their leadership. But I see your point. | 1 |
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court said on Thursday that election officials in Pennsylvania may count mailed ballots accompanied by voters' declarations that were signed but not dated. The court's order came in a tight race for a seat on a state court, but it is likely to affect other contests in the state as well. | If Judge Kavanaugh is confirmed, Chief Justice Roberts would become the swing justice. And he "would be the least swinging swing justice in the post-World War II era." https://t.co/enAdlcouQt | 1 |
WASHINGTON - Brett M. Kavanaugh, President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, urged prosecutors investigating President Bill Clinton to question him in graphic detail about his sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern, according to a memorandum released on Monday by the National Archives. | Supreme Court denies stay in mysterious grand jury subpoena case that may be linked to the Mueller investigation. The subpoenaed company must now provide information or pay contempt sanctions. https://t.co/OpUa07JHvt | 1 |
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday in an appeal from a death row inmate in Missouri with a rare medical condition that he says will cause excruciating pain if he is put to death by lethal injection. Lawyers for the inmate, Russell Bucklew, said his condition, cavernous hemangioma, would make him ... | BREAKING: Justice Ginsburg has been hospitalized for treatment of acute cholecystitis, a benign gallbladder condition, at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, the Supreme Court said. She plans to participate in tomorrow's arguments by phone from the hospital. | 1 |
WASHINGTON - Against the backdrop of a national crisis of soaring opioid overdoses and deaths, the Supreme Court on Tuesday considered the cases of two doctors accused of operating pill mills, with the justices struggling to articulate a legal standard that would separate unconventional medical practices from drug deal... | WASHINGTON - A New York law that imposes strict limits on carrying guns outside the home seemed unlikely to survive its encounter with the Supreme Court, based on questioning from the justices on Wednesday. | 1 |
BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to move forward with plans to build a border wall with military funds. Ginsburg, Sotomayor and Kagan dissent. Breyer would allow preparatory work but not construction. https://t.co/VymBFuusbH | BREAKING: Justice Ginsburg has been hospitalized for treatment of acute cholecystitis, a benign gallbladder condition, at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, the Supreme Court said. She plans to participate in tomorrow's arguments by phone from the hospital. | 1 |
WASHINGTON - President Trump has been consulting the Constitution. In a Twitter post on Monday, he recited part of Article II, Section 4, the provision that allows Congress to remove federal officials who commit "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors." | Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton suffered unanimous losses in the Supreme Court. How is Donald Trump likely to fare if the court agrees to hear his challenge to a grand jury subpoena for his tax records?
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@joldmcginn Fair point and quite right. There is a textual comeback: that the rule lists "the following persons" to whom it applies but doesn't mention judges. Other FRCP do by their terms forbid judges from taking certain actions. | Is "pay to play" is warping criminal justice in Texas? A new study finds that lawyers who donate to judges' campaigns get a disproportionate share of assignments to represent poor criminal defendants.
https://t.co/nXBW1e9Bfp https://t.co/5pvqlZX7dE | 1 |
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it would hear a case on whether the Trump administration can exclude undocumented immigrants from the calculations it will use in apportioning congressional seats. The court put the case on a fast track, saying it will hear arguments on Nov. 30. | WASHINGTON - Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. defended the independence and integrity of the federal judiciary on Wednesday, rebuking President Trump for calling a judge who had ruled against his administration's asylum policy "an Obama judge." | 1 |
WASHINGTON - Against the backdrop of a national crisis of soaring opioid overdoses and deaths, the Supreme Court on Tuesday considered the cases of two doctors accused of operating pill mills, with the justices struggling to articulate a legal standard that would separate unconventional medical practices from drug deal... | Waiting for the Supreme Court to act on an emergency request to block a Louisiana law that could severely restrict the number of abortion providers in the state. Last week, Justice Alito entered a stay that put the law on hold. It expires today. https://t.co/RugjvsO5RS | 1 |
WASHINGTON - Three days after the fierce battle over his nomination ended in his elevation to the Supreme Court, Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh joined his new colleagues on the bench for the first time on Tuesday morning, taking a seat on the far right side of the bench, in the spot reserved for the most junior justice. | BREAKING: Justice Ginsburg has been hospitalized for treatment of acute cholecystitis, a benign gallbladder condition, at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, the Supreme Court said. She plans to participate in tomorrow's arguments by phone from the hospital. | 1 |
BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to move forward with plans to build a border wall with military funds. Ginsburg, Sotomayor and Kagan dissent. Breyer would allow preparatory work but not construction. https://t.co/VymBFuusbH | NEW: Justice Sotomayor rejects emergency request to block New York City's vaccine mandate for public school workers. She did not (1) ask for a response, (2) refer the request to the full court or (3) give reasons - all indications that the application was one shaky legal ground. | 1 |
The college eventually abandoned its speech code, and the question for the Supreme Court is whether that made the case moot. This may remind you of last term's Second Amendment case. | Walter had a lively and playful intellect that saw angles and connections no one else had. And he was honest and decent. A giant has left the legal community. https://t.co/mYmcjxUoca | 1 |
WASHINGTON - Three days after the fierce battle over his nomination ended in his elevation to the Supreme Court, Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh joined his new colleagues on the bench for the first time on Tuesday morning, taking a seat on the far right side of the bench, in the spot reserved for the most junior justice. | Hip-hop stars including Chance the Rapper, Meek Mill, Killer Mike and 21 Savage are urging the Supreme Court to hear the case of a Pittsburgh rapper sent to prison for threatening police officers -- in a song
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WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court late Friday night lifted California's restrictions on religious gatherings in private homes, saying they could not be enforced to bar prayer meetings, Bible study classes and the like. The court's brief, unsigned order followed earlier ones striking down limits on attendance at houses of ... | @ChrisRickerd Juxtaposed with 23 senators, sure. And unlike DOMA, the BLAG was unanimous across partisan lines. And institutions are by their nature represented by their leadership. But I see your point. | 1 |
WASHINGTON - Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Clarence Thomas may not agree about much, but they have both said the Supreme Court's oral arguments have been plagued by too many interruptions. A few years ago and again this fall, the court took steps to address their concerns. | The two faithless elector cases, which had been consolidated for one hour-long argument, will now be argued separately after Justice Sotomayor recused herself from one on realizing that she was friends with one of the parties. | 1 |
WASHINGTON - In recent months, churches in California and Nevada asked the Supreme Court to lift government restrictions on attendance at religious services meant to address the coronavirus pandemic. The churches lost. | WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court seemed ready on Monday to rule that immigrants allowed to stay in the United States temporarily for humanitarian reasons may not apply for green cards if they had entered the country unlawfully. | 1 |
Chief Justice Roberts, joined by the four conservatives in a 5-4 religion case today: "A State need not subsidize private education. But once a State decides to do so, it cannot disqualify some private schools solely because they are religious."
https://t.co/9xFFSRrUX0 | Supreme Court rules that the government generally needs a warrant to get cell tower location data. Vote was 5 to 4, with Chief Justice Roberts and the liberals in the majority. | 1 |
WASHINGTON - In 2012, American sailors injured in a terrorist attack won a $314 million default judgment against the government of Sudan. The award was at risk at the Supreme Court on Wednesday over what might otherwise have seemed a minor and technical question: whether the sailors had properly served Sudan by sending... | On the eve of the Federalist Society's annual convention, a new group of leading conservative lawyers called Checks and Balances is speaking out about Trump's attacks on the justice system and the news media.
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Less than two hours after the Supreme Court ended a wrenching term last month, it welcomed a new member. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who had been waiting in the wings since she was confirmed by the Senate in April, took two oaths of office - and joined a court in turmoil. | The college eventually abandoned its speech code, and the question for the Supreme Court is whether that made the case moot. This may remind you of last term's Second Amendment case. | 1 |
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court seemed ready on Monday to rule that immigrants allowed to stay in the United States temporarily for humanitarian reasons may not apply for green cards if they had entered the country unlawfully. | Supreme Court denies stay in mysterious grand jury subpoena case that may be linked to the Mueller investigation. The subpoenaed company must now provide information or pay contempt sanctions. https://t.co/OpUa07JHvt | 1 |
WASHINGTON - In his first 13 years on the Supreme Court, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.'s main challenge was trying to assemble five votes to move the court to the right, though there were only four reliably conservative justices. | WASHINGTON - In 2012, American sailors injured in a terrorist attack won a $314 million default judgment against the government of Sudan. The award was at risk at the Supreme Court on Wednesday over what might otherwise have seemed a minor and technical question: whether the sailors had properly served Sudan by sending... | 1 |
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear a third major challenge to the Affordable Care Act, setting up likely arguments this fall in a case that could wipe out President Barack Obama's signature domestic achievement. | Is "pay to play" is warping criminal justice in Texas? A new study finds that lawyers who donate to judges' campaigns get a disproportionate share of assignments to represent poor criminal defendants.
https://t.co/nXBW1e9Bfp https://t.co/5pvqlZX7dE | 1 |
WASHINGTON - The Constitution should mean the same thing in Arizona as it does in Texas. But federal appeals courts have issued starkly different rulings about whether border guards in those states can be held to account for shootings across the Mexican border that took the lives of two teenagers. | Photoshopping the justices: It turns out the official 2017 Supreme Court group photo is a digital composite. And other tidbits about the 150-year-old tradition of #SCOTUS class photos. https://t.co/OozVPE32j1 | 1 |
WASHINGTON - Three days after the fierce battle over his nomination ended in his elevation to the Supreme Court, Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh joined his new colleagues on the bench for the first time on Tuesday morning, taking a seat on the far right side of the bench, in the spot reserved for the most junior justice. | WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in favor of three Muslim men who say they were put on the no-fly list in retaliation for refusing to become government informants. | 1 |
Justice Kennedy, who holds the key vote in Masterpiece Bakeshop, sent sharply contradictory messages at Tuesday's argument. He called discrimination against gays an affront. And he said the case had been tainted by hostility to religion. | In a 5-4 ruling along the usual lines, the Supreme Court backed a strict interpretation of an immigration detention law. Justice Breyer, dissenting from the bench, said the majority had betrayed basic American values. https://t.co/BYynaxHEQN | 1 |
Justice Kennedy, who holds the key vote in Masterpiece Bakeshop, sent sharply contradictory messages at Tuesday's argument. He called discrimination against gays an affront. And he said the case had been tainted by hostility to religion. | Chief Justice Roberts fears that nominal-damages suits will turn judges into advice columnists, prompting two questions: Which justice's advice column would you most like to read? And what should it be called?
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WASHINGTON - The immediate question for the Supreme Court justices at an argument on Tuesday was whether Congress was free to exclude residents of Puerto Rico from a Social Security program that provides monthly cash payments to older, blind and disabled people who cannot support themselves. | Partisan behavior by en banc courts used to be rare, but that changed in the Trump era. A new study found "a dramatic and strongly statistically significant spike in both partisan splits and partisan reversals."
https://t.co/nG1z7u5tKY | 1 |
WASHINGTON - Around 10 a.m. Thursday, the Supreme Court is set to decide whether President Trump can block the release of his financial records. The ruling, concerning tax returns and other information the president has fought hard to protect, is likely to yield a major statement on the power of presidents to resist de... | Before this morning's argument, Chief Justice Roberts welcomes a visitor: Attorney General Garland. "We wish you well in the discharge of the duties of your new office," the chief justice says, using the customary language. The two men served together on the D.C. Circuit. | 1 |
"I'm going back and forth with the correspondent from The Times": At about 24:00, Chief Justice Roberts continues to fight a losing battle over his 2008 citation of a Bob Dylan lyric https://t.co/HcXyKEqx9X | New Sidebar: A Black Lives Matter protest turned violent, and an injured police officer sued a leader of the protest. On Friday, @ACLU asked the Supreme Court to rule that the First Amendment bars such claims.
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WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that the Constitution places limits on the ability of states and localities to take and keep cash, cars, houses and other private property used to commit crimes. | WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether the government can block a detainee at Guantánamo Bay from obtaining information from two former C.I.A. contractors involved in torturing him on the ground that it would expose state secrets. | 1 |
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court's decision in Bush v. Gore 20 years ago was supposed to work like the tape recorder in "Mission: Impossible." It was meant to produce a president and then self-destruct. | Supreme Court stays execution of a Texas inmate who asked for a spiritual adviser in the death chamber. Trial court ordered to "promptly determine" whether that would cause "serious security problems." https://t.co/0YwDIdmE5x | 1 |
Impeachment proceedings against Presidents Nixon and Clinton focused on accusations that they had used their power to frustrate lawful investigations. They could provide a roadmap to House Democrats in the wake of the Mueller report.
https://t.co/yEv95NqtXV | NEW: A splintered #SCOTUS partly backs a religious challenge to Covid restrictions in California.
Kagan, dissenting: "In the worst public health crisis in a century, this foray into armchair epidemiology cannot end well."
https://t.co/1E05eFXzD8 | 1 |
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court has gotten a fair amount of praise for the way it adjusted to the coronavirus pandemic: hearing arguments by conference call, with the justices asking questions one at a time in order of seniority, and the public allowed to listen in. | WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court returns to the bench on Monday to start a term that will be studded with major cases on gay and transgender rights, immigration, abortion, guns and religion. The rulings will arrive by June, in the midst of an already divisive presidential campaign. | 1 |
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that the Constitution places limits on the ability of states and localities to take and keep cash, cars, houses and other private property used to commit crimes. | WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court cleared the way on Tuesday for a pipeline to transport natural gas from Pennsylvania to New Jersey, ruling that PennEast Pipeline Company, the project's developer, may exercise the federal government's power of eminent domain to condemn land owned by New Jersey. | 1 |
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that the Constitution places limits on the ability of states and localities to take and keep cash, cars, houses and other private property used to commit crimes. | WASHINGTON - In 2012, American sailors injured in a terrorist attack won a $314 million default judgment against the government of Sudan. The award was at risk at the Supreme Court on Wednesday over what might otherwise have seemed a minor and technical question: whether the sailors had properly served Sudan by sending... | 1 |
Photoshopping the justices: It turns out the official 2017 Supreme Court group photo is a digital composite. And other tidbits about the 150-year-old tradition of #SCOTUS class photos. https://t.co/OozVPE32j1 | In case on mysterious grand jury subpoena to a foreign corporation that may be related to the Mueller probe, a request from the corporation to file a partly redacted petition seeking #SCOTUS review https://t.co/5rwMWoj8j4 | 1 |
Tom Goldstein of @SCOTUSblog urges the Supreme Court to give reasons when it rejects Texas' lawsuit, saying "a simple five-page per curiam opinion genuinely could end up in the pantheon of all-time most significant rulings in American history."
https://t.co/nwpgi3RMCr | Supreme Court denies stay in mysterious grand jury subpoena case that may be linked to the Mueller investigation. The subpoenaed company must now provide information or pay contempt sanctions. https://t.co/OpUa07JHvt | 1 |
WASHINGTON - In the Supreme Court's first ruling on abortion since the arrival of Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the court on Tuesday reinstated a federal requirement that women seeking to end their pregnancies using medications pick up a pill in person from a hospital or medical office. | In case on mysterious grand jury subpoena to a foreign corporation that may be related to the Mueller probe, a request from the corporation to file a partly redacted petition seeking #SCOTUS review https://t.co/5rwMWoj8j4 | 1 |
WASHINGTON - A New York law that imposes strict limits on carrying guns outside the home seemed unlikely to survive its encounter with the Supreme Court, based on questioning from the justices on Wednesday. | Before this morning's argument, Chief Justice Roberts welcomes a visitor: Attorney General Garland. "We wish you well in the discharge of the duties of your new office," the chief justice says, using the customary language. The two men served together on the D.C. Circuit. | 1 |
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear challenges to "net neutrality" regulations adopted in 2015 by the Federal Communications Commission during the Obama administration and upheld by a federal appeals court the next year. | WASHINGTON - Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Clarence Thomas may not agree about much, but they have both said the Supreme Court's oral arguments have been plagued by too many interruptions. A few years ago and again this fall, the court took steps to address their concerns. | 1 |
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a challenge to the voting map for Virginia's House of Delegates, saying that state lawmakers were not entitled to appeal a ruling striking down parts of the map on race-discrimination grounds. The Supreme Court's action is likely to help Democrats in elections this fal... | A death row inmate, represented by Don Verrilli, says his trial lawyer had to choose between presenting an effective defense and getting paid. @JustADCohen takes a look. https://t.co/E9BgQR2XB1 | 1 |
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a transgender youth's victory in a case on access to high school bathrooms and revived a lawsuit from the parents of a man who had died in police custody. | Great good wishes to @tonymauro, who is stepping back from daily coverage of the Supreme Court. He is a sterling colleague, fierce advocate for press freedom and a prince of a guy. | 1 |
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court partly granted on Tuesday a request from North Carolina Republicans to block a voting map drawn by a federal court there. That court had interceded after finding that a map drawn by state lawmakers for the General Assembly had relied too heavily on race and had violated state laws. | A new filing asks the Supreme Court to reconsider its January order allowing the Trump administration's "public charge" rule to proceed. A coalition led by New York said the rule will deter immigrants from seeking health care during the pandemic.
https://t.co/AcacQ0le9r | 1 |
D.C Circuit, in ruling against Trump in case on Brian Karem's press pass, says, in response to a DOJ argument, that the White House retains the power to remove "rogue, mooning journalists." https://t.co/yUKHpiXl8H | In today's Supreme Court arguments on partisan gerrymandering, Justice Breyer suggested calling for new arguments next term in all three pending cases (WI, MD, NC). A sign that there is no consensus? A bid to get Justice Kennedy to stay? | 1 |
WASHINGTON - There was a framed copy of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 on the wall of the chambers of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died on Friday. She counted the law among her proudest achievements, even as it illustrated her limited power. As part of the Supreme Court's four-member liberal wing, she did... | @JonEndean Article addressed this. At Harvard, "he mostly taught about the separation of powers, but recently . . . he turned his attention to the Supreme Court." And "Judge Kavanaugh's class at Yale, in 2011, was on national security law." | 1 |
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it would hear a case on whether the Trump administration can exclude undocumented immigrants from the calculations it will use in apportioning congressional seats. The court put the case on a fast track, saying it will hear arguments on Nov. 30. | WASHINGTON - Like lots of Americans, Robert Frese is not shy about expressing his views on the internet. Last year, in a comment on a newspaper's Facebook page, he said a New Hampshire police officer who had given him a traffic citation was "a dirty cop." The police chief, Mr. Frese added, was a coward who had covered ... | 1 |
WASHINGTON - Over the dissents of its three liberal members, the Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear an appeal from a death row inmate in Missouri who said the way the state planned to execute him would cause him excruciating pain. The inmate, Ernest Johnson, had asked to instead be put to death by a firing squad. | The two faithless elector cases, which had been consolidated for one hour-long argument, will now be argued separately after Justice Sotomayor recused herself from one on realizing that she was friends with one of the parties. | 1 |
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday upheld Ohio's aggressive efforts to purge its voting rolls, siding with Republicans in the latest partisan battle over how far states can go in imposing restrictions on voting. | The Supreme Court on Monday returned a challenge to Alaska's limits on campaign contributions to a lower court, suggesting that the limits were too low. The court also turned away appeals from defendants in a libel suit over climate change and from Adnan Syed, whose murder conviction was examined by the podcast "Serial... | 1 |
WASHINGTON - Proposals to expand the size of the Supreme Court are facing skepticism from some members of the commission that President Biden appointed to consider overhauling the federal judiciary. But there is something closer to a consensus that imposing term limits on the justices is worth exploring. | New Sidebar: Can the families of Mexican teens killed by American officials in cross-border shootings sue? It depends on the state the bullets were fired from. Stark, consequential circuit split for #Scotus to consider https://t.co/yWeusjk4Cg | 1 |
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that its decision last year banning non-unanimous jury verdicts in cases involving serious crimes did not apply retroactively, dashing the hopes of thousands of inmates for new trials. | Partisan behavior by en banc courts used to be rare, but that changed in the Trump era. A new study found "a dramatic and strongly statistically significant spike in both partisan splits and partisan reversals."
https://t.co/nG1z7u5tKY | 1 |
As we wait to hear whether the Supreme Court will shut down a climate-change trial in Oregon, @jswatz looks at the case and Julia Olson, the lead lawyer for the plaintiffs
https://t.co/RicUHrlcRS | From the court: "Justice Breyer took a Covid-19 rapid test this morning prior to oral argument and the result was positive. That test has now been determined to be a false positive . . . Out of an abundance of caution, Justice Breyer participated in oral arguments today." | 1 |
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court returns to the bench on Monday to start a term that will be studded with major cases on gay and transgender rights, immigration, abortion, guns and religion. The rulings will arrive by June, in the midst of an already divisive presidential campaign. | The Supreme Court on Monday returned a challenge to Alaska's limits on campaign contributions to a lower court, suggesting that the limits were too low. The court also turned away appeals from defendants in a libel suit over climate change and from Adnan Syed, whose murder conviction was examined by the podcast "Serial... | 1 |
WASHINGTON - Two justices on Friday called for the Supreme Court to reconsider New York Times v. Sullivan, the landmark 1964 ruling interpreting the First Amendment to make it hard for public officials to prevail in libel suits. | Justice Clarence Thomas misses arguments on the first day of the new term. Chief Justice Roberts said he was "indisposed." A court spokeswoman said he was resting at home, likely with the flu. He'll participate in the day's cases based on briefs and transcripts. | 1 |
BREAKING: Justice Ginsburg has been hospitalized for treatment of acute cholecystitis, a benign gallbladder condition, at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, the Supreme Court said. She plans to participate in tomorrow's arguments by phone from the hospital. | @RMFifthCircuit Basically not a thing. But Burger dissented from the court's decision to treat a stay application in a capital case as a cert. petition and granting it. "I conclude that no issues are presented that merit plenary review by this Court," he wrote.
https://t.co/B5uAqUucRc | 1 |
A new filing asks the Supreme Court to reconsider its January order allowing the Trump administration's "public charge" rule to proceed. A coalition led by New York said the rule will deter immigrants from seeking health care during the pandemic.
https://t.co/AcacQ0le9r | NEW: The Supreme Court said it will not decide what would have been its first major Second Amendment case in a decade. New York City's repeal of the challenged gun control regulation, the majority said, had made the matter moot.
https://t.co/u7mjOYUYjh | 1 |
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to hear an appeal from a Colorado web designer who objects to providing services for same-sex marriages, returning the justices to a battleground in the culture wars pitting claims of religious freedom against laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orient... | WASHINGTON - Two justices on Friday called for the Supreme Court to reconsider New York Times v. Sullivan, the landmark 1964 ruling interpreting the First Amendment to make it hard for public officials to prevail in libel suits. | 1 |
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide whether the Biden administration can end a Trump-era immigration program that forces asylum seekers arriving at the southwestern border to await approval in Mexico. | @RMFifthCircuit Basically not a thing. But Burger dissented from the court's decision to treat a stay application in a capital case as a cert. petition and granting it. "I conclude that no issues are presented that merit plenary review by this Court," he wrote.
https://t.co/B5uAqUucRc | 1 |
WASHINGTON - Three days after the fierce battle over his nomination ended in his elevation to the Supreme Court, Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh joined his new colleagues on the bench for the first time on Tuesday morning, taking a seat on the far right side of the bench, in the spot reserved for the most junior justice. | The two faithless elector cases, which had been consolidated for one hour-long argument, will now be argued separately after Justice Sotomayor recused herself from one on realizing that she was friends with one of the parties. | 1 |
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court has gotten a fair amount of praise for the way it adjusted to the coronavirus pandemic: hearing arguments by conference call, with the justices asking questions one at a time in order of seniority, and the public allowed to listen in. | The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously upheld a key aspect of the federal response to the worst debt crisis in Puerto Rican history, one that threatened basic services like schools and hospitals, some $50 billion in public pension obligations and more than $70 billion in debts to bondholders. The crisis worsened after... | 1 |
As we wait to hear whether the Supreme Court will shut down a climate-change trial in Oregon, @jswatz looks at the case and Julia Olson, the lead lawyer for the plaintiffs
https://t.co/RicUHrlcRS | The two faithless elector cases, which had been consolidated for one hour-long argument, will now be argued separately after Justice Sotomayor recused herself from one on realizing that she was friends with one of the parties. | 1 |
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court cleared the way on Thursday for prosecutors in New York to seek President Trump's financial records in a stunning defeat for Mr. Trump and a major statement on the scope and limits of presidential power. | In today's paper, a special report on the 50th anniversary of the publication of the Pentagon Papers, with a fascinating oral history, smart reflections from @SangerNYT and @peterbakernyt and my look at the legacy of the Supreme Court decision
https://t.co/T1nAU8RZDc | 1 |
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