The Biden administration on Monday asked the Supreme Court to temporarily put on hold a portion of two orders issued by federal trial courts in Louisiana and Kentucky that prohibit the Department of Education from enforcing any part of an April 2024 rule implementing Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which bars sex… Read More
Court blocks Texas execution
The Supreme Court blocked the execution of Ruben Gutierrez, who was sentenced to die after 7 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday for the 1998 stabbing death of 85-year-old Escolastica Harrison in Brownsville, Tex. In a brief unsigned order released to reporters just after 6:30 p.m. Eastern time on Tuesday night, the justices put Gutierrez’s execution on… Read More
And then there were seven — the remaining cases
When the justices return to the bench on Friday morning, they will have seven decisions left to release before their summer recess. (This assumes that the court issues two opinions in the challenges to Texas and Florida laws that would regulate large social-media companies.) The justices are not expected to issue all seven opinions on… Read More
Reading the tea leaves — part 2
As we enter the homestretch of the Supreme Court’s term, the justices have just seven (in all likelihood) opinions to release. With the announcement of the court’s opinions in SEC v. Jarkesy and Harrington v. Purdue Pharma on Thursday, the justices have now issued all of their opinions from 2023. Only two cases – which… Read More
The remaining cases — a baker’s dozen?
With just a few days remaining in June, the Supreme Court still has roughly 13 opinions (assuming that it issues separate decisions in the challenges to social-media laws in Florida and Texas) to release. The justices are scheduled to take the bench on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of this week to announce opinions, which should… Read More
Reading the tea leaves
The Supreme Court returns to the bench on Wednesday to issue opinions in argued cases. With roughly 13 opinions left to release, it’s finally possible to start reading some tea leaves – that is, to make some predictions about which justices might be the authors of the remaining decisions. In the final week of June,… Read More
The remaining cases (and a few tea leaves), in brief
The Supreme Court returns to the bench on Thursday to release more opinions in argued cases. With 11 days remaining in June, the justices have just over 20 decisions (depending on whether they issue one or two opinions to address some questions) remaining. Here are summaries of the as-yet-undecided cases, along with a few tea… Read More
In the second week of June, with more than two dozen opinions to go
The justices will return to the bench on Thursday and Friday of this week to issue opinions in argued cases. Depending on exactly how you count them (for example, will the court eventually issue one or two opinions in the challenges to social media laws in Texas and Florida?), the court has somewhere around 28… Read More
The remaining cases
The Supreme Court will issue opinions in argued cases on Thursday morning. (I’ll be live-blogging the release of opinions over at SCOTUSblog.) The justices still have approximately 34 decisions left to release before they begin their summer recess at the end of June or beginning of July. Here, in brief, are summaries of the as-yet-undecided… Read More
Court allows Idaho to generally enforce ban on gender-transition care for minors
The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for Idaho to temporarily enforce a state law criminalizing gender-transition care for minors against anyone who is not part of a lawsuit currently challenging that ban. In a brief order, the justices granted the state’s request to limit the scope of an earlier order entered by a… Read More