Justices to hear arguments on TikTok ban on Jan. 10

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TikTok asks justices to temporarily block federal ban

Court adds Medicaid lawsuit to docket

Justices take up cases on religious tax exemption and California climate change mandate

William Hennessy, Jr., prolific courtroom sketch artist, dies at 67

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

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TikTok asks justices to temporarily block federal ban

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By Amy Howe on Dec. 18 at 12:31 p.m.

Faced with an emergency request by TikTok and a group of the app’s users, the Justices on Wednesday fast-tracked oral argument over whether a federal law barring apps controlled by China and other “foreign adversaries” violates the First Amendment. A federal court of appeals in Washington had refused to suspend the ban, which is set to go into effect on Jan. 19, the day before Inauguration Day.

The Justices will hear argument in TikTok’s appeal before Inauguration Day. (Focal Foto via Flickr)

By Amy Howe on Dec. 18 at 12:57 p.m.

The Justices decided Wednesday to hear argument over whether Medicaid recipients in South Carolina have the right to sue — known as standing — over their state’s decision to bar Medicaid funds from going to facilities like Planned Parenthood that provide abortion.

By Amy Howe on Dec. 13 at 3:38 p.m.

The justices will decide whether Catholic Charities’ is eligible for a Wisconsin tax exemption for certain religious organizations, and whether fuel producers have a right to sue over California’s role in regulating greenhouse gas emissions.

By Amy Howe on Dec. 11 at 5:16 p.m.

Hennessy, a classically trained artist who chronicled oral arguments at the Supreme Court and legal proceedings around the country for decades, died on Dec. 10. He was 67. Bill was an invaluable contributor to SCOTUSblog from 2022-2024, and we are saddened to learn of his death.

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 Amy Howe on Dec 20, 2024 at 9:54 am

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

The Constitution Allows for Term-Limited Supreme Court Justices (Nancy Gertner, Brennan Center for Justice)
Who Knocked on the Supreme Court’s Door in November? (Jimmy Hoover, The National Law Journal)
FCC v. Consumers’ Research: Will the Court Reinvigorate the Nondelegation Doctrine or Phone It In? (Michael Pepson & Casey Mattox, The Federalist Society)
U.S. Supreme Court Database finds new home at Penn State (Sydney Roach, WPSU)
Judges topple gun restrictions as courts chart an uncertain path forward (Matt Vasilogambros, Missouri Independent)

By Amy Howe on Dec 19, 2024 at 9:12 am

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

Ex-Congressman’s Meme Fight Faces Long Odds at Supreme Court (Kyle Jahner, Bloomberg Law News)
Supreme Court Fast-Tracks TikTok Case in Face of Jan. 19 Deadline (Adam Liptak & Sapna Maheshwari, The New York Times)
The Supreme Court decisions that gutted environmental protections in 2024 (Natalie Mesa, High Country News)
Supreme Court takes up South Carolina’s effort to defund Planned Parenthood (Melissa Quinn, CBS News)
Security for US Supreme Court justices’ homes to get funding boost (Nate Raymond, Reuters)

By Amy Howe on Dec 18, 2024 at 7:59 am

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

How Trump’s lawyer could steer the Supreme Court on abortion and trans rights (Joan Biskupic, CNN)
Judge Broke Rules by Criticizing Justice Alito During Flag Flap (Jess Bravin, Wall Street Journal)
Camping ban, penalties rise after Supreme Court ruling, worsening homelessness, experts say (Michael Lyle, Nevada Current)
Share of Black Harvard Law Students Drops in First Class After Affirmative Action Ruling (Akshaya Ravi, Harvard Crimson)
James Ho’s Post-Election Remarks Fuel Supreme Court Speculation (Jacqueline Thomsen, Bloomberg Law News)

By Amy Howe on Dec 17, 2024 at 7:17 am

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

The Supreme Court just took up its first religion case of the year. It could add 6 more. (Kelsey Dallas, The Deseret News)
Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to California’s strict vehicle emissions rules (John Fritze & Ella Nilsen, CNN)
Supreme Court stays out of Peter Navarro’s fight to keep emails from first Trump administration (Maureen Groppe, USA Today)
TikTok asks Supreme Court to block law that could ban popular app (Lawrence Hurley, NBC News)
‘A Sword and a Shield’: How the Supreme Court Supercharged Trump’s Power (The Ezra Klein Show, The New York Times)

By Amy Howe on Dec 16, 2024 at 4:07 pm

UPDATED: A group of TikTok users filed a separate application on Monday afternoon, also asking the court to block enforcement of the law.

Social media giant TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, on Monday asked the justices to block a federal law that would require TikTok to shut down in the United States unless ByteDance can sell off the U.S. company by Jan. 19. Unless the justices intervene, the companies argued in a 41-page filing, the law will “shutter one of America’s most popular speech platforms the day before a presidential inauguration.”

The request came three days after a federal appeals court in Washington turned down a request to put the law on hold to give TikTok time to seek review in the Supreme Court. A panel made up of judges appointed by Presidents Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Ronald Reagan explained that the companies were effectively seeking to delay “the date selected by Congress to put its chosen policies into effect” –particularly when Congress and the president had made the “deliberate choice” to “set a firm 270-day clock,” with the possibility of only one 90-day extension.

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2	3 Orders orders	4	5	6 Conference private_conferences Opinions opinions	7	8
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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
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5	6	7	8	9	10 Conference private_conferences	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	16	17 Conference private_conferences	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
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Harrington v. Purdue Pharma L.P. (23-124)
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Moore v. U.S. (22-800)
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Muldrow v. City of St. Louis, Missouri (22-193)
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