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Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to Alaska campaign finance laws

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The court did not add any cases to its docket on Monday for the 2024-25 term. The justices turned down several dozen petitions in a list of orders, including petitions on the constitutionality of two campaign finance laws enacted by Alaska voters in 2020 and an Alabama man’s death sentence appeal. The court did not act of a handful of high-profile petitions the justices have been considering at their private conferences.

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The justices have yet to fill in the final three argument sessions of the term. (Aashish Kiphayet via Shutterstock)

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Trump taps lawyer who argued his immunity case for solicitor general

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President-elect Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he will nominate D. John Sauer for solicitor general. Sauer argued and won Trump’s case in the Supreme Court earlier this year that earned him entitlement to broad immunity from prosecution. In private practice and as solicitor general of Missouri, Sauer has championed conservative causes including the death penalty, efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, and laws to bar transgender women and girls from competing in school sports.

PETITIONS OF THE WEEK

FCC asks court to uphold constitutionality of nationwide rural phone and internet subsidies

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A weekly look at new and notable petitions seeking Supreme Court review. This week: The Federal Communications Commission asks the justices to uphold the constitutionality of its Universal Service Fund, the initiative that provides cheaper rates for phone and internet access to remote areas, low-income families, and public schools and libraries.

ARGUMENT ANALYSIS

Justices debate particularity of complaint in NVIDIA securities fraud suit

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The Supreme Court heard arguments on Wednesday in a dispute over the standard for evidence in a securities fraud class action based on allegedly false statements. The dispute involves statements by NVIDIA about the extent to which its profits depended on sales to the volatile crypto-mining market. For the most part, the justices who spoke seemed to think the dispute was too fact-specific to warrant their attention.

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