A history of birthright citizenship at the Supreme Court

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A history of birthright citizenship at the Supreme Court

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A death row plea for DNA testing

Court sets March argument schedule

Trump changes government’s position in pending trans healthcare case

San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu on the city’s Clean Water Act case

The morning read for Friday, Feb. 14

The morning read for Thursday, Feb. 13

The morning read for Wednesday, Feb. 12

The morning read for Tuesday, Feb. 11

The morning read for Monday, Feb. 10

A death row plea for DNA testing

Court sets March argument schedule

Trump changes government’s position in pending trans healthcare case

San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu on the city’s Clean Water Act case

The morning read for Friday, Feb. 14

The morning read for Thursday, Feb. 13

The morning read for Wednesday, Feb. 12

The morning read for Tuesday, Feb. 11

The morning read for Monday, Feb. 10

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By Amy Howe updated on Feb. 6 at 2:04 p.m.

On Jan. 20, President Donald Trump issued an executive order ending birthright citizenship in the United States. A Reagan-appointed federal judge in Seattle quickly blocked the order, calling it “blatantly unconstitutional.” As the dispute moves through the lower courts, a look at the Supreme Court’s most significant rulings on the guarantee of citizenship to anyone born in the United States.

The carving above the Supreme Court steps

A challenge to Trump’s order could be headed to the Supreme Court. (Amy Lutz via Shutterstock)

By Amy Howe on Feb. 13 at 11:38 a.m.

Ruben Gutierrez has long maintained that access to DNA testing on several pieces of evidence would exonerate him of the 1998 Brownsville, Tex., murder for which he was sentenced to death. Gutierrez was sentenced for killing 85-year-old Escolastica Harrison but argues that he was not in the house when two other men killed her. Last year, a lower court ruled that Gutierrez does not have the right to sue over Texas’s DNA testing law.

By Amy Howe on Feb. 10 at 4:12 p.m.

The Supreme Court issued its schedule for the March argument session on Monday. The justices will hear nine cases between March 24 and April 2, including a dispute over a lower court’s decision to strike down a map that created a second majority-Black congressional district in Louisiana and an attempt to revive the so-called “nondelegation doctrine.”

By Amy Howe on Feb. 7 at 3:12 p.m.

The Trump administration notified the justices that the government’s position had changed on a Tennessee law banning the use of puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender minors. Under the new administration, the letter said, the government no longer views the law as unconstitutional.

David Chiu discusses City and County of San Francisco v. EPA, in which the court is considering whether the Environmental Protection Agency violates the Clean Water Act when it imposes generic prohibitions in a permit for a city’s water discharges, without specifying explicit standards for discharges.

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By Ellena Erskine on Feb 14, 2025 at 9:35 am

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

Texas Judge Fines New York Doctor and Orders Her to Stop Sending Abortion Pills to Texas (Pam Belluck & Mary Beth Gahan, The New York Times)
What Marbury v. Madison means for the Supreme Court — and America (Mark Sherman, The Associated Press)
Will the Supreme Court Preserve the Rule of Law? Chief Justice Roberts May Have the Answer (Michael Dell, Time)
Trump’s EEOC and NLRB Firings Will Likely Prevail in Court (Erin Hawley, The Wall Street Journal)
Divided by Principle: How Justices Barrett and Jackson are Shaping the Future of Constitutional Law (Adam Feldman, Legalytics)

By Ellena Erskine on Feb 13, 2025 at 9:33 am

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

Is there anyone in government Trump can’t fire? Why Humphrey’s Executor may be in peril at the Supreme Court (John Fritze, CNN)
There’s No Need to Guess. JD Vance Is Ready to Ignore the Courts. (Ian Ward, Politico)
Voting Rights Claims Plunge in Wake of Supreme Court Decision (Diana Dombrowski, Alex Ebert, Kimberly Robinson, Jon Meltzer, K. Sophie Will, & Umar Farooq, Bloomberg Law)
South Carolina Doctors Ask for Right to Follow Conscience and Perform Abortions (Mary Ziegler, Slate)
Even Superstar Supreme Court Litigators Can’t Win Them All (David Lat, Original Jurisdiction)

By Ellena Erskine on Feb 12, 2025 at 9:39 am

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

Legal showdown looms as Trump tests limits of presidential power (Anthony Zurcher & Kayla Epstein, BBC News)
Musk and Trump allies ratchet up rhetoric against the judiciary (Tom Hals, Reuters)
What Happens if Trump Defies the Courts (Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker)
Justice Sotomayor defends courts amid criticism from Trump and his allies (Lawrence Hurley, NBC News)
JD Vance’s Tweet Is No Crisis (Adrian Vermeule, The Wall Street Journal)

By Ellena Erskine on Feb 11, 2025 at 11:16 am

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

Trump, Vance and Musk take aim at the courts as judges halt some of 2nd term agenda (Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News)
State v. state battles over abortion laws are coming to a head – and likely will end up at the Supreme Court (Tierney Sneed, CNN)
SCOTUS case involving St. Isidore, state charter school board will be heard in late April (Murray Evans, The Oklahoman)
A legal renegade challenges the judicial system (Marc Fisher, The Washington Post)
Trump’s Actions Have Created a Constitutional Crisis, Scholars Say (Adam Liptak, The New York Times)

By Ellena Erskine on Feb 10, 2025 at 10:28 am

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

Supreme Court Signals That Landmark Libel Ruling Is Secure (Adam Liptak, The New York Times)
Supreme Court that Trump helped shape could have the last word on his aggressive executive orders (Mark Sherman, The Associated Press)
How the ‘10th justice’ can help Trump’s agenda at the Supreme Court (Joan Biskupic, CNN)
There May Be Enough Supreme Court Votes to Save the Government (Simon Lazarus, The New Republic)
Trump’s Tariffs Could Squeeze the Supreme Court (Ankush Khardori, Politico)

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2	3 Orders orders	4	5	6 Conference private_conferences Opinions opinions	7	8
9	10 Orders orders	11	12	13 Conference private_conferences Opinions opinions	14 Opinions opinions	15
16	17 Orders orders	18	19 Juneteenth holidays	20 Conference private_conferences Opinions opinions	21 Opinions opinions	22
23	24 Orders orders	25	26 Opinions opinions	27 Opinions opinions	28 Opinions opinions	29
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November 2024

Su	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa
					1 Conference private_conferences	2
3	4 Wisconsin Bell v. U.S., ex rel. Todd Heath (23-1127) oral_arguments	5 Advocate Christ Medical Center v. Becerra (23-715) oral_arguments E.M.D. Sales v. Carrera (23-217) oral_arguments	6 Facebook v. Amalgamated Bank (23-980) oral_arguments	7	8 Conference private_conferences	9
10	11 Veterans Day holidays	12 Velazquez v. Garland (23-929) oral_arguments Delligatti v. U.S. (23-825) oral_arguments	13 NVIDIA Corp. v. E. Ohman J:or Fonder AB (23-970) oral_arguments	14	15 Conference private_conferences	16
17	18	19	20	21	22 Conference private_conferences Opinions opinions	23
24	25	26	27	28 Thanksgiving Day holidays	29	30

December 2024

January 2025

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			1 New Year's Day holidays	2	3	4
5	6	7	8	9	10 Conference private_conferences TikTok, Inc. v. Garland oral_arguments	11
12	13 Orders orders Hewitt v. United States (23-1002) oral_arguments Stanley v. City of Sanford, Florida (23-997) oral_arguments	14 Thompson v. United States (23-1095) oral_arguments Waetzig v. Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (23-971) oral_arguments	15 Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v. Paxton (23-1122) oral_arguments Opinions opinions	16	17 Conference private_conferences Opinions opinions	18
19	20 Martin Luther King Jr. Day holidays Inauguration Day holidays	21 FDA v. R.J. Reynolds Vapor Co. (23-1187) oral_arguments McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates, Inc. v. McKesson Corporation (23-1226) oral_arguments	22 Barnes v. Felix (23-1239) oral_arguments Cunningham v. Cornell University (23-1007) oral_arguments	23	24 Conference private_conferences	25
26	27 Orders orders	28	29	30	31

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May 2025

June 2025

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Trump v. Anderson (23-719)
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16
Conference
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19
Washington’s Birthday
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20
Orders
orders
Corner Post v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (22-1008)
oral_arguments
Bissonnette v. LePage Bakeries Park St., LLC (23-51)
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21
Ohio v. EPA (23A349)
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Warner Chappell Music v. Nealy (22-1078)
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23
Conference
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26
Orders
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Moody v. NetChoice, LLC (22-277)
oral_arguments
NetChoice, LLC v. Paxton (22-555)
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27
McIntosh v. U.S. (22-7386)
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Cantero v. Bank of America (22-529)
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28
Garland v. Cargill (22-976)
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Coinbase v. Suski (23-3)
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