In another #Trump admin shadow docket win, #SCOTUS majority says "Displaying passport holders' sex at birth no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth" www.npr.org/2025/11/06/n...

#SCOTUS appears skeptical of Trump tariff arguments, but Trump maintains that if he loses the tariff case, “Our country will be destroyed, and our military would be instantly obliterated.” www.npr.org/2025/11/05/n...

Supreme Court seems poised to further undercut the Voting Rights Act npr.org/2025/10/15/n... #SCOTUS #VRA

#SCOTUS Justice Anthony Kennedy, who stepped down from the court in 2018, earned a reputation as the court’s “swing justice,” bc his vote was so often determinative. But in an interview with NPR, he says, “ the cases swung, not me.” www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

Justice Anthony Kennedy, who retired from #SCOTUS in 2018, is worried about this country. In an NPR interview the Reagan appointee warns that “Democracy is not guaranteed to survive.” www.npr.org/2025/10/13/n...

#SCOTUS seems skeptical of limits on conversion therapy for minors during yesterday's oral arguments www.npr.org/2025/10/07/n...

Humility is being the answer to a jeopardy question —for a second time—and none of the contestants knowing who you are youtube.com/watch?v=AMeN... @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social

#SCOTUS upholds Trump firing of FTC Commissioner on shadow docket. Kagan dissents for 3 court libs. “Our emergency docket should not be used, as it has been here, to transfer govt authority from Congress to the Prez & thus to reshape the nation’s separation of powers.” www.npr.org/2025/09/22/n...

#SCOTUS agrees to hear Trump tariff case in November www.npr.org/2025/09/09/n...

#SCOTUS opens the gates for ICE raids to restart in LA and temporarily bars the reinstatement of the sole remaining Democratic member of the FTC www.npr.org/2025/09/08/n...

Trump won most of last term’s #SCOTUS cases, but most were on Shadow Docket and temporary. Now the chickens are coming home to roost & we will see what the court thinks on a truckload of cases it can no longer kick down the road. www.npr.org/2025/09/03/n...

#SCOTUS: In two days, two more unsigned court orders on emergency docket. Only one directly involved granting a Trump wish. www.npr.org/2025/07/24/g... www.npr.org/2025/07/23/n...

#SCOTUS blocks Florida's law banning undocumented people from crossing into the state. www.npr.org/2025/07/09/n...

#SupremeCourt upholds, for now, Trump plan for major govt reorg that would kill many programs authorized by congress and eliminate hundreds of thousands of federal jobs. www.npr.org/2025/07/08/n...

#SCOTUS agrees to review two cases next term testing state laws banning transgender girls and women from women's sports.

At the #SupremeCourt it's all over, but it's not. www.npr.org/2025/06/30/n...

#SCOTUS rules for Trump in birthright citizenship case, except it doesn't. www.npr.org/2025/06/27/n...

#SCOTUS Dark times for Planned Parenthood. www.npr.org/2025/06/26/n...

The "supreme irony" of today's Supreme Court Planned Parenthood decision

#SCOTUS prequel on @whyy.org whyy.org/episodes/sco...

#SCOTUS in unsigned, unexplained order allows Trump admin to deport individuals not to countries where they come from, but to any place in the world that will take them w/o notice or an option to be heard. www.npr.org/2025/06/23/g...

CJ Roberts, writing for conservative supermajority, upholds bans on gender affirming care for minors in roughly half the states. Sotomayor suggests the standard he used would have upheld state bans on interracial marriage.

#CrunchTime at the Supreme Court with one third of the docket remaining to be decided www.npr.org/2025/06/16/n...

#SCOTUS unanimously rules for a disabled Minn. teenager denied equal school time to accommodate her disabilities. www.npr.org/2025/06/12/n...

#SCOTUS press corps waits in vain for a reply from chief justice on live streaming opinion announcements from the bench. www.npr.org/2025/06/11/n...

#SCOTUS now livestreams oral arguments but still resists same for opinion announcements.

#SCOTUS grants DOGE access to Social Security Administration records over Jackson Dissent. Jackson: "once again this Court dons its emergency responder gear, rushes to the scene, and uses its equitable power to fan the flames rather than extinguish them." www.npr.org/2025/06/06/n...

#SCOTUS issues emergency order, for now, giving DOGE team unfettered access to intensely personal social security records.

#SCOTUS has 3 major decisions, all 9-0, and proving that liberals too can rule 4 religion, 4 gun makers, and 4 plaintiffs claiming reverse discrimination. www.npr.org/2025/06/05/n...

A half-million Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans who thought they had protected status in the U.S. now have lost it, per #SCOTUS order today. www.npr.org/2025/05/30/n...

“Let’s just assume you’re dead wrong,” Justice Kagan quizzing SG John Sauer at today’s #SCOTUS arguments. www.npr.org/2025/05/15/n...

#SCOTUS's conservative majority seemed on Wednesday to be on the verge of taking a transformative step—a step that would for the first time allow overtly religious schools to be fully funded by the taxpayers. www.npr.org/2025/04/30/n...

#SCOTUS poised to tell public schools they must have opt-outs for classes that include course material that parents object to. www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...

#SCOTUS jumps back into the culture wars today, as the justices hear args testing whether public schools are required to let their kids opt out of classes where story books with LGBTQ characters are sometimes discussed. www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...

With emergency appeals mounting, #SCOTUS is at the center of an important question: Are we in the midst of a constitutional crisis? www.npr.org/2025/04/18/n...

After an extraordinary post-midnight #SCOTUS order, focus intensifies on whether the court can tame Trump. www.npr.org/2025/04/18/n...

#SCOTUS to rule on Trump's ban of birthright citizenship, probably. www.npr.org/2025/04/17/g...

#SCOTUS ponders whether anti-abortion states can remove Planned Parenthood from Medicaid programs that provide non-abortion medical services. www.npr.org/2025/04/02/n...

S.C. concedes that Planned Parenthood is a medically qualified provider for non-abortion health care but S.C. wants to kick Medicaid off its list of qualified providers. Today #SCOTUS examines whether the state can, and what the remedy is if it can’t. www.npr.org/2025/04/02/n...

The Podcast Academy gave out its Ambie awards last night + NPR cleaned up, winning best Documentary Podcast, best Biz pod, best Society + Culture pod, best True Crime pod (WBUR), + the Politics pod beat out Bloomberg + to win its category too.

At #SCOTUS, conservative and liberal justices alike lean toward Catholic Charities in dispute over paying into Wisconsin's state unemployment compensation fund. www.npr.org/2025/03/31/n...

#SCOTUS upholds Biden-era ghost gun rule, but will Trump reverse course to allow ghost guns? www.npr.org/2025/03/26/n...

#SCOTUS seemed split in multiple directions in voting rights case. www.npr.org/2025/03/24/n...

At #SCOTUS, C.J. Roberts and Justice Barrett join three libs, largely upholding a lower court order telling the Trump administration to pay foreign aid contractors for already completed work. www.npr.org/2025/03/05/n...

#SCOTUS seems ready to throw out Mexico's lawsuit against U.S. gun manufacturers for allegedly aiding and abetting the gushing pipeline of military-style weapons from the U.S. to Mexican cartels. www.npr.org/2025/03/04/n...

In arguments that lasted more than 2 hours, #SCOTUS seemed deeply engaged in the question of whether states can ban hormone and other treatments for trans kids. The answer is likely yes. www.npr.org/2024/12/04/n...

The FDA is trying to restrict flavored vaping devices to keep kids from getting hooked on nicotine. Can FDA do that? #SCOTUS to decide. npr.org/2024/12/01/nx-s1-5205471/fda-vaping-supreme-court

From Bush v. Gore to championing the legalization of gay marriage, lawyer Ted Olson was an unpredictable conservative www.npr.org/2024/11/13/n...