The Supreme Court on Monday issued orders from the justices’ private conference last week. The justices did not add any new cases to their merits docket for the 2022-23 term. They denied review in a case involving the right of a religious non-profit to decline to hire employees who do not share their religious beliefs,… Read More

For the third time this term, the Supreme Court will weigh in on whether someone can stage an intervention – the legal kind, that is. On Monday, in Berger v. North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, the justices will consider an effort by two Republican leaders of the North Carolina legislature to join a… Read More

After a relatively quiet March argument session, the Supreme Court will finish its blockbuster 2021-22 term with a bang. The court on Tuesday released the argument calendar for the term’s final session, in April. The justices will hear argument in 10 cases over six days, including the challenge to the Biden administration’s efforts to unwind… Read More

The Biden administration on Monday afternoon asked the Supreme Court to allow it to consider whether some members of the elite Navy SEALs are vaccinated against COVID-19 when making operational decisions. U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar asked the justices to temporarily block an order by a federal trial court that she says “usurps the Navy’s… Read More

The Supreme Court on Friday dealt a blow to a lawsuit filed by three Muslim men who claim that they were targeted by an FBI counterterrorism investigation because of their religion. In a narrow but unanimous ruling, the justices held that a provision of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act does not trump the “state secrets”… Read More

Nearly nine years after bombings near the finish line of the Boston Marathon killed three people and badly injured hundreds more, the Supreme Court on Friday reinstated the death sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was convicted for his role in the 2013 attacks. By a vote of 6-3, the justices reversed a 2020 ruling by… Read More

The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that information about the federal government’s post-9/11 torture program at CIA “black sites” is protected by the “state secrets privilege,” a doctrine that allows the government to withhold information in litigation when disclosing it would compromise national security. The fractured decision in United States v. Zubaydah, written by Justice… Read More

The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Kentucky’s attorney general should have been allowed to intervene to defend a state law restricting abortion after another state official declined to do so – even when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit had already struck down the law. The 8-1 decision in Cameron v…. Read More

Just four days after President Joe Biden nominated her to succeed Justice Stephen Breyer, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson submitted her responses to a questionnaire that the Senate Judiciary Committee will use as it considers her nomination. Her responses repeat many of the details in the questionnaire that she submitted in 2021 when she was nominated… Read More

For two hours on Monday, the justices probed the extent of the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases in a case with high stakes for the Biden administration’s plans to slow climate change. By the end of the oral argument, there were no clear indications about how the court is likely to rule…. Read More