WHAT WE'RE READING
The morning read for Tuesday, Dec. 10
on Dec 10, 2024 at 9:47 am
The Supreme Court will issue one or more opinions from the current term this morning at 10 a.m. EST, followed by oral arguments in Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, Colorado. Follow along for our live coverage. In Seven County, backers of a proposed train linking Utah oilfields to refineries on the Gulf Coast ask the justices to overturn a lower court decision blocking the project and narrow the scope of what environmental impacts the 1970 National Environmental Policy Act requires agencies to review.
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Tuesday morning read:
- US supreme court hears oil railway case with environmental protections at stake (Nina Lakhani, The Guardian)
- Supreme Court weighs environmental dispute over Utah oil railway (Lawrence Hurley, NBC News)
- Supreme Court Turns Down Cases on Admissions, Gender Identity and Guns (Adam Liptak, The New York Times)
- Supreme Court turns away Wisconsin parents who say schools are hiding transgender support plans as Alito dissents (John Fritze, CNN)
- Supreme Court rejects challenge to Hawaii gun licensing rules — for now (Nina Totenberg, NPR)
Coming up: On Wednesday, Dec. 11, the court expects to issue one or more opinions from the current term.
