WHAT WE'RE READING
The morning read for Friday, Jan. 10
on Jan 10, 2025 at 9:38 am
Last night, the court turned down President-elect Donald Trump’s request to block sentencing in his New York hush money case. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh wrote that they would have granted his request.
The justices will return to the bench this morning for oral arguments in TikTok, Inc. v. Garland, the dispute over a law that would ban TikTok in the United States on national security grounds if its parent company, ByteDance, doesn’t sell the app by Jan. 19. Listen live at 10 a.m. EST.
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read:
- TikTok is heading to the Supreme Court to challenge its U.S. ban. Here’s what to know (Bobby Allyn, NPR)
- Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to halt hush-money case sentencing (Kayla Epstein, BBC News)
- A Rebuke to Trump Provides a Telling Portrait of a Divided Supreme Court (Adam Liptak, The New York Times)
- FinCEN Asks Supreme Court to Reinstate Law Requiring Ownership Information (Mengqi Sun, The Wall Street Journal)
- New Mexico Supreme Court rejects local abortion restrictions (Nick Catlin, KOAT)
