The Supreme Court on Wednesday temporarily barred the Biden administration from implementing one of its latest efforts to provide debt relief to Americans with student loans. In a brief unsigned order, the justices declined to allow the Department of Education to put into effect a July 2023 rule, known as the SAVE Plan, intended to… Read More

On September 30, the justices will meet for the so-called “long conference” – the first regularly scheduled conference since early July at which they will consider new petitions for review. The court will have hundreds of petitions in front of it, but last year it agreed to add only 12 cases to its docket for… Read More

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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