Update: On Friday, January 3, the states and the House of Representatives had asked the court to fast-track consideration of their motion to expedite review of their petitions by directing the respondents to file their opposition to the motion by January 7, which would allow the justices to consider the motion at their January 10… Read More

It has been nearly a half-century since Congress gave the Federal Trade Commission the right to represent itself before the Supreme Court, at least when the U.S. solicitor general, who normally represents the federal government before the court, declines to do so. That right is rare among federal agencies, and the FTC has exercised it… Read More

On March 4, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in one of the biggest cases of the new year: the challenge to the constitutionality of a Louisiana law that requires doctors who perform abortions to have the right to admit patients at a nearby hospital. Four years ago, the justices struck down a similar… Read More

Tonight the Supreme Court turned down a request from the federal government to allow the executions of four federal inmates to go forward. The first execution, of inmate Daniel Lee, had originally been scheduled for next Monday morning, but the government urged the justices to allow the executions to proceed, even if it would mean… Read More

This morning the Supreme Court issued more orders from last week’s private conference. After granting one new case last Friday, the justices did not add any new cases to their merits docket for the term, nor did they make any new requests for the views of the federal government. The justices turned down a request… Read More

For the second time in less than three years, the family of Sergio Hernandez was at the Supreme Court today for oral arguments. In 2010, Sergio – who was then 15 years old – was on the Mexican side of the U.S.-Mexico border when he was shot and killed by a U.S. Border Patrol agent,… Read More

When the justices return to the bench next Tuesday, they will hear oral arguments in the challenge to the Trump administration’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA, and in a dispute over the cross-border shooting of a Mexican teenager by a U.S. Border Patrol agent. On Wednesday, they… Read More