WHAT WE'RE READING

The morning read for Monday, March 10

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 Clears Way for Rare Execution by Firing Squad (Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson, Bloomberg Law)
• Idaho AG celebrates end of ‘meddlesome’ emergency abortion lawsuit as case is dropped (Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman) 
• The Urgent Supreme Court Case That’s Not Getting Enough Attention (Linda Greenhouse, The New York Times)
• Court Seems Disposed to Rule for S&W and Against Mexico (Stephen Halbrook, The Volokh Conspiracy) 
• ‘Nothing like this in American history’: the crisis of Trump’s assault on the rule of law (Ed Pilkington, The Guardian) 

WHAT WE'RE READING

The morning read for Friday, March 7

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

• Texas tells Supreme Court it shouldn’t be ‘left holding the bag’ for US nuclear waste (Maureen Groppe, USA Today)
• Oklahoma’s ‘dirty political laundry’ on full display as U.S. Supreme Court takes interest in state (Emily Stacey & Christine Pappas, Oklahoma Voice)
• MAGA world turns against Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett (Lawrence Hurley, NBC News)
• What Alito’s Dissent Fails to Understand (Nicholas Bagley, The Atlantic) 
• US Supreme Court Justice Jackson calls for revisiting sentencing guidelines (Luc Cohen, Karen Freifeld, & Chris Prentice, Reuters)

RELIST WATCH

Restitution, medical malpractice, and a capital appeal

The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here.

Once again this week, the Supreme Court has been busy sifting through the relists. The court granted review of one of last week’s new relists raising a double jeopardy question about a federal sentencing enhancement for using a firearm during a violent crime. (Grants are now filling in the 2025-26 term, which will start in October.) And the court denied review of a petition raising a First Amendment challenge to university bias-response teams. Justice Clarence Thomas dissented from the denial of review in that case, arguing that there is a divide among the courts of appeals on whether students’ speech was being chilled that the Supreme Court would ultimately need to resolve. Justice Samuel Alito also voted to grant review in that case, but did not join the dissent. The rest of the relisted cases are back for another week.

There are 126 petitions and applications scheduled for this Friday’s conference. Four of them were relisted for the first time this week.

WHAT WE'RE READING

The morning read for Thursday, March 6

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

• Supreme Court Rejects Trump on USAID Foreign-Aid Freeze (Greg Stohr, Bloomberg)
• Supreme Court split over spent nuclear fuel fight (Niina H. Farah, E&E News)
• US foreign aid contractors go to judge after Supreme Court boost (Brendan Pierson & John Kruzel, Reuters)
• Supreme Court sides with San Francisco, requiring EPA to set specific targets in water pollution permits (Robin Kundis Craig, The Conversation) 
• Judges vs. Trump (German Lopez, The New York Times)

WHAT WE'RE READING

The morning read for Wednesday, March 5

The court will issue one or more opinions this morning at 10 a.m. EST. Join us for live coverage. Following the opinion announcements, the court will hear Nuclear Regulatory Commission v. Texas, a dispute about nuclear waste management.

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

• Supreme Court Deals Blow to E.P.A. in Dispute Over Federal Water Rules (Abbie VanSickle & Adam Liptak, The New York Times)
• US supreme court weakens rules on discharge of raw sewage into water supplies (Nina Lakhani, The Guardian)
• Supreme Court likely to shoot down Mexico’s $10B lawsuit against US gun makers (Devin Dwyer, ABC News)
• Supreme Court justices attended Trump’s address to Congress: Who was there? (Maureen Groppe & Anthony Robledo, USA Today)
• What John Roberts learned during his formative year as a Supreme Court clerk (Joan Biskupic, CNN)