The Supreme Court on Friday evening added three new cases to its docket for the 2024-25 term. The cases, which involve issues ranging from the constitutionality of appointments to an HHS task force to student loan forgiveness and mootness in tax cases, are likely to be among the final cases argued during the current term…. Read More
Supreme Court allows Trump’s New York criminal sentencing to go forward
A divided Supreme Court on Thursday evening cleared the way for President-elect Donald Trump’s criminal sentencing to go forward on Friday morning. In a brief unsigned order issued just after 7 p.m., the justices rejected Trump’s plea to halt the sentencing proceeding in his New York hush money case, where he was convicted on 34… Read More
TikTok, Biden, Trump present arguments over app ban to justices
The Biden administration on Friday afternoon urged the Supreme Court to leave in place a federal law that would require TikTok to shut down in the United States unless its parent company can sell off the U.S. company by Jan. 19. U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar told the justices that the social media giant “collects… Read More
Justices add Medicaid lawsuit to docket
The Supreme Court on Wednesday morning agreed to take up a dispute over whether a South Carolina woman can bring a lawsuit challenging that state’s decision to end Planned Parenthood’s participation in its Medicaid program. The court’s announcement that it will hear arguments next spring in Kerr v. Planned Parenthood came at approximately 11 a.m…. Read More
Supreme Court to hear arguments on TikTok ban on Jan. 10
The Supreme Court will hear two hours of oral arguments on Jan. 10 in TikTok’s appeal to block enforcement of a federal law that would require TikTok to shut down in the United States unless its parent company can sell off the U.S. company by Jan. 19. In a one-page unsigned order issued on Wednesday… Read More
TikTok asks justices to temporarily block federal ban
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… Read More
Justices won’t hear New York broadband case or states’ EPA challenge
The Supreme Court on Monday morning declined to take up a challenge to New York’s caps on the price that its low-income residents pay for broadband internet access. The denial of review in New York State Telecommunications Association v. James came on a list of orders released from the justices’ private conference on Friday. After… Read More
Court declines RNC request to intervene in Pennsylvania voting dispute
The Supreme Court on Friday night left in place a ruling by Pennsylvania’s highest court that requires election boards in the state to count provisional ballots submitted by voters whose mail-in ballots had been deemed invalid. The brief unsigned order came just four days before election day. Recent polls show former President Donald Trump and… Read More
Court leaves RFK, Jr., on ballot in Wisconsin, Michigan
The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to order the removal of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s name from ballots in Wisconsin and Michigan. Kennedy suspended his campaign in August and endorsed former President Donald Trump. But election officials in Wisconsin and Michigan rebuffed Kennedy’s request to withdraw his name from the ballot. That led to litigation… Read More
Looking ahead to the long conference – Part 2
In just over two weeks, the Supreme Court will meet for the so-called “long conference” – the first regularly scheduled conference since early July at which it will consider new petitions for review. The justices will have hundreds of petitions before them, but last year they agreed to add only 12 cases to their docket… Read More