Justices navigate rising security threats
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Trump asks Supreme Court to hear his defamation case against CNN
President Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to weigh in on his defamation case against cable news giant CNN. In a filing submitted on Aug. 14 but docketed on Thursday, Trump told the justices that “CNN falsely and maliciously portrayed” him “as a knowing liar who fabricated objections to the 2020 election, lacked supporting evidence, and deliberately deceived the American people.” The…
Slaughter’s vice
As a new school year gets underway, law students might expect to soon be called upon to answer a seemingly simple question: What did the Supreme Court hold in Trump v. Slaughter ? A student who has dutifully done the reading might respond by quoting the chief justice’s majority opinion, which describes the court as holding statutory removal protections for Federal Trade Commissioners to be…
What the public thinks about the emergency docket
This column has generally been about what the emergency docket does: how fast the justices act, how often lower courts cite its orders, who dissents on it and in what form , and where denied litigants go when they refile. This month covers something different. Scholars have measured the docket’s growth. Journalists have covered its biggest orders. Two justices have argued about its legitimacy in…
Ballroom dispute now fully briefed
Plus, a group of Florida Republicans brings their Census Bureau challenge to SCOTUS.
Florida Republicans bring Census Bureau challenge to the Supreme Court
A group of Florida Republicans has appealed a ruling by a federal court in that state throwing out a lawsuit seeking to require the U.S. Census Bureau to revise its data for the 2020 census. Arguing that the statistical methods the Census Bureau used in the 2020 census led to inaccurate results, the challengers told the justices that, “[w]ith each decade the census strays further from” the…
Trump detention policy nears SCOTUS
As part of the Trump administration’s hardline approach to migrants, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has ramped up the number of people it detains. Soon, the Supreme Court may decide whether one of the administration’s preferred tactics is legal. In separate cases , the Department of Justice and attorneys for migrants have asked the justices to decide whether ICE can detain migrants…
The scope of the Supreme Court’s emergency docket
On Aug. 12, an unusual emergency docket application captured court watchers’ attention. It centered on a dog named Bruce who was scheduled to die. Bruce, a 3-year-old Great Pyrenees/German Shepherd mix who weighed about 120 pounds , was involved in four violent incidents over the past two years, according to Ventura County Animal Services . He bit three people, including a child, and knocked down…
Trump administration awaits emergency docket decisions
Plus, an update on the ripple effects of the Supreme Court’s TPS ruling.
Supreme Court urged to leave in place order blocking construction of White House ballroom
Lawyers for the National Trust for Historic Preservation urged the Supreme Court on Tuesday afternoon to leave in place a ruling by a federal court in Washington, D.C., that would temporarily block construction of a new White House ballroom. Tad Heuer, counsel of record for the National Trust, accused the Trump administration of “trying to outrun judicial review” by expediting construction on the…
The chief justice should share much of his power
This is the fourth piece in a series on what I believe the court can, and should, do better. *** Under longstanding tradition, the chief justice presides over oral argument and the justices’ private conferences. I propose a change. The chief justice should delegate these presiding duties to his colleagues. Doing so would promote trust among the justices and allow for the experimentation of…
What if one vote had changed in the birthright citizenship case?
In Trump v. Barbara , the Supreme Court held that executive order 14160 , which attempted to end birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants and those temporarily residing in the United States, was unconstitutional under the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the opinion, joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Ketanji Brown…