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The justices added 15 new cases to their docket for the 2024-25 term.
The court turned down 9 high-profile requests on its emergency docket to temporarily block EPA regulations.

By Amy Howe on Oct. 4 at 11:44 a.m.

The court on Friday added 15 new cases to their docket out of Monday’s “long conference,” the first time the justices officially met to discuss petitions since early July. The added cases include a dispute involving a member of one of Chicago’s most prominent political dynasties, a relatively rare capital case, and Mexico’s lawsuit against U.S. gun manufacturers.

The justices released a list of 15 new cases they will hear this term on Friday morning. (Aashish Kiphayet via Shutterstock)

By Amy Howe on Oct. 4 at 1:24 p.m.

The court declined to put on hold federal air pollution rules that the Biden administration put in place earlier this year to curb hazardous air pollutants and planet-warming methane emissions. Republican-led states and industry groups said the rules overburdened power plants. The justices did not explain their decision to deny the requests.

By Amy Howe on Oct. 2 at 5:35 p.m.

At oral argument on Tuesday the court will examine a challenge to a 2022 federal rule that seeks to regulating unserialized guns assembled by a user from parts – known as ghost guns – that can be bought anonymously and without a background check. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives says the rule was implemented not to ban ghost guns but to regulate them, as traditional gun sales are, under the 1968 Gun Control Act.

By Amy Howe on Sept. 24 at 11:29 p.m.

A majority of the court turned down Marcellus Williams’ last appeals, allowing his execution to go forward in Missouri. He was killed by lethal injection shortly after the court issued its unsigned order. None of the forensic evidence found at the scene of the 1998 murder of Felicia Gayle tied Williams to the crime and the prosecutor later testified that he had excluded at least one potential juror based on race. Williams, who was Black, was convicted by 11 white jurors and just one Black juror.

In this video, Nate Mowry interviews Missouri Solicitor General Josh Divine. Divine represents his state and several individual challengers, who argue that the federal government’s efforts to influence content moderation by social media platforms violates the First Amendment.

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By Ellena Erskine on Oct 04, 2024 at 9:57 am

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:

Trump moves to toss Jan. 6 obstruction charges, citing Supreme Court ruling (Andrew Goudsward, Reuters)
Georgia prosecutors urge Supreme Court to keep Mark Meadows’ election subversion case in state court (John Fritze, CNN)
The Untold Link Between Justice Alito And Trump’s Election-Denying Efforts (Shawn Musgrave, The Intercept)
The Story Behind How a Death Row Inmate and the Oklahoma A.G. Concocted a Phantom “Brady Violation” and Got Supreme Court Review (Part I) (Paul Cassell, The Volokh Conspiracy)
The Supreme Court Should Stop the Glossip Execution (Kenneth Cuccinelli, The New York Times)

By Ellena Erskine on Oct 03, 2024 at 10:27 am

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:

Supreme Court will tackle transgender rights, ‘ghost guns’ in term beginning Monday (David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times)
Utah hoping Supreme Court will break precedent and transfer vast tracts of federal land to states (Kirk Siegler, NPR)
Prosecutors lay out new evidence in Trump election case and accuse him of having ‘resorted to crimes’ (Eric Tucker & Alanna Durkin Richer, The Associated Press)
Grieving Bronx mother urges US Supreme Court to uphold ‘ghost gun’ curbs (Andrew Chung, Reuters)
Party Divisions in Views of Supreme Court Keep Ratings Low (Jeffrey M. Jones, Gallup)

By Ellena Erskine on Oct 02, 2024 at 10:46 am

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:

Gun, transgender rights, porn cases loom as US Supreme Court returns (Andrew Chung, Reuters)
How the US Supreme Court could get involved in the 2024 presidential election (Devin Dwyer, ABC News)
Couple denied adoption because they aren’t married takes case to U.S. Supreme Court (Chris Ramirez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
The Supreme Court Tanked Its Reputation. This Is the Way Back. (Noah Feldman, Bloomberg Opinion)
I gave a Mass. judge a gift. The Supreme Court could learn from his response. (Andrew Haile, The Boston Globe)

By Ellena Erskine on Oct 01, 2024 at 10:54 am

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Tuesday morning read:

Georgia court strikes down state abortion ban (Phil McCausland, BBC News)
Colorado to pay web designer’s legal fees after losing LGBTQ anti-bias law case (Mike Scarcella, Reuters)
Eric Adams hopes Supreme Court’s curbing of corruption prosecutions helps gut his own (Jordan Rubin, MSNBC)
The Supreme Court Is on Collision Course With Its Ethics Struggles (Michael Linhorst, The New Republic)
Prosecutors Overreach in the Case Against Eric Adams (James Burnham & Yaakov Roth, The Wall Street Journal)

By Ellena Erskine on Sep 30, 2024 at 11:15 am

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:

Supreme Court flooded with prayers for relief from groups eager to promote religion (John Fritze, CNN)
Supreme Court Could ‘Extend Coattails’ of Trump’s Immunity to Mark Meadows (Sean O’Driscoll, Newsweek)
How Congress Gets Its Groove Back (David Dayen, The American Prospect)
‘Be Not Afraid’: Kavanaugh on the Importance of Being Thick-Skinned (Jimmy Hoover, The National Law Journal)
Roberts Court Steps Back Rights Where Warren Court Leaped Ahead (Philip Allen Lacovara, Bloomberg Law)

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1	2 Pulsifer v. United States (22-340) oral_arguments	3 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America, Limited (22-448) oral_arguments	4 Acheson Hotels, LLC v. Laufer (22-429) oral_arguments	5	6 Conference private_conferences	7
8	9 Columbus Day holidays	10 Murray v. UBS Securities, LLC (22-660) oral_arguments Great Lakes Insurance SE v. Raiders Retreat Realty Co., LLC (22-500) oral_arguments	11 Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP (22-807) oral_arguments	12	13 Conference private_conferences	14
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22	23	24	25	26	27 Conference private_conferences	28
29	30 Culley v. Marshall (22-585) oral_arguments	31 O’Connor-Ratcliff v. Garnier (22-324) oral_arguments Lindke v. Freed (22-611) oral_arguments

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5	6 Department of Agriculture Rural Development Rural Housing Service v. Kirtz (22-846) oral_arguments	7 U.S. v. Rahimi (22-915) oral_arguments	8 Rudisill v. McDonough (22-888) oral_arguments	9 Conference private_conferences	10 Veterans Day holidays	11
12	13 Orders orders	14	15	16	17 Conference private_conferences	18
19	20 Orders orders	21	22	23 Thanksgiving Day holidays	24	25
26	27 Brown v. U.S. (22-6389) oral_arguments	28 McElrath v. Georgia (22-721) oral_arguments Wilkinson v. Garland (22-666) oral_arguments	29 Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy (22-859) oral_arguments	30

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