Justices play blame game over racial discrimination on Mississippi jury Alito: "This is the most timid and reticent defense counsel that I have encountered. Any competent defense attorney that I knew would have spoken up." www.courthousenews.com/justices-pla...

Breaking: Judge Leon blocks construction on Trump's Ballroom, which was set to begin construction in April, until he obtains Congress approval. the GWB appointee emphasized that POTUS is the steward of the White House, not the owner. @courthousenews.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/judge-blocks...

I will not be surprised if there's a significant clash between the justices in oral arguments over birthright citizenship. They seem to be bickering amongst themselves more than ever—even in "lower profile" cases.

Jackson doesn't hold back in her Chiles dissent: "because the majority plays with fire in this case, I fear that the people of this country will get burned" www.courthousenews.com/supreme-cour...

SCOTUS opinions incoming at 10 a.m.

President Trump's push to deny birthright citizenship to children of certain immigrants rests on the idea that only those with allegiance to the sovereign www.courthousenews.com/trumps-birth...

Did I say presidential library? I meant PRESIDERFPIAL EIRRAABG

iPhone v. Android at SCOTUS www.courthousenews.com/justices-fla...

"ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps."

Feds: "The colonists were upset about actions taken here that have direct effect here, that the only connection [to England] was a kind of vague dignitary offense of treason" Roberts: "I don't think that's how King George took it" @courthousenews.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/justices-fla...

Out of context SCOTUS from today: Sotomayor: I never knew there was a federal denture act Barrett: Are you an Android guy?

In case anyone was curious, this is what it looks like to walk to work in D.C. in 2026.

At the center of the Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship case is a contested fight over what it means to be American, highlighting the struggles of using history in the modern legal world. @courthousenews.bsky.social courthousenews.com/trumps-birth...

Inside the novel legal theory at the center of Trump's efforts to clamp down on birthright citizenship, which relies in part on medieval & early modern English common law granting sovereign protection to visitors. Great report from @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/trumps-birth...

SCOTUS adds Trump's temporary protected status emergency app turned cert before judgment grant to April calendar. The justices will hear arguments on the 29th. Background here: www.courthousenews.com/supreme-cour...

A knock-down, drag-out fight over legal scholarship has been playing out in the background the bid to limit birthright citizenship, highlighting questions about how the court may use history to unwind a more than century-old promise for those born on U.S. soil. www.courthousenews.com/trumps-birth...

And this dispute is staying put. Judge Joseph Crosswhite declined to transfer the case elsewhere after Judge Donna “Beth” Tanner argued that the local community was following the case closely, which she said would taint the jury pool. #nccourts

Pete Hegseth is blocking the promotion of four Army officers to be one-star generals. Two of the officers targeted are Black and two are women. The highly unusual move has prompted some senior officials to question whether the officers are being singled out because of their race or gender.

Oh come on www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Among the priorities for the 2027 Texas House: Studying whether parts of New Mexico can secede and join Texas.

NEW STORY// Washington's E-bike Rebate Program Reopens for Applications March 30 By Ryan Packer via @theurbanist.org

The first lady is introducing ai "humanoids"

Supreme Court says time on the lam counts toward supervised release “When a prisoner escapes, he is in no sense serving his prison sentence...when a defendant on supervised release fails to report, everyone agrees he remains bound by the terms of his release" www.courthousenews.com/supreme-cour...

Don't miss this footnote from Alito's solo dissent in Rico v. United States

Justices won’t place blame on internet service providers in bootleg music dustup Unanimous decision but Sotomayor and Jackson split, arguing that the court essentially gave service providers carte blanche to allow illegal infringement www.courthousenews.com/justices-won...

SCOTUS rulings incoming at 10

Breaking: DOJ may have disclosed secret grand jury material to Congress, violated judicial gag order in Trump classified documents case www.courthousenews.com/doj-may-have... Story from @benjaminweiss.bsky.social

Tense moment between Jackson and DOJ during today's argument Roberts then abruptly cut off Jackson's questioning just for Kavanaugh to return to the topic a few minutes later courthousenews.com/justices-dra...

Jackson suggested that a ruling on the now-rescinded-but-potentially-future border turnback policy would be advisory Obama gave initial guidance, Trump formalized it, Biden rescinded it, now Trump wants the option, just in case courthousenews.com/justices-dra...

SCOTUS summary for this week: if you’re in line, stay in line

The Supreme Court seemed sympathetic to the case that migrants can’t “arrive in” the U.S. while on Mexico’s side of the border but spent a significant portion of the argument deciphering the intricacies of when migrants could be considered “in” the U.S. www.courthousenews.com/justices-dra...

Today at SCOTUS: Can border agents prevent migrants from seeking asylum by physically block them from setting foot over the border at U.S. ports of entry @courthousenews.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/dark-chapter...

It appears a majority of the US Supreme Court is skeptical of mail-in voting. If it overturns Mississippi's law, the decision could upend the coming midterms. By @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social via @courthousenews.bsky.social: www.courthousenews.com/supreme-cour...

New SCOTUS dictionary addition: Bruenize www.courthousenews.com/supreme-cour...

Justice Jackson brought up what felt like an elephant in the room most of the 2 hour argument If state post-election mail-in ballot deadlines are preempted by federal law, then why is Congress considering the SAVE Act www.courthousenews.com/supreme-cour...

Sotomayor called out the solicitor general for quoting historical sources out of context 👀👀

Supreme Court looks to make Election Day great again Absentee voting rules nationwide could turn on the justices’ opinions of ballot collection on Civil War battlefields. @courthousenews.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/supreme-cour...

Today at SCOTUS: Months before the midterms, the Supreme Court is putting Election Day on the docket in a case that could affect how voters cast ballots in over 30 states. @courthousenews.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/stop-the-cou...

"WITCH WILL"

Monday's grants of certiorari "before judgment" in the TPS cases were the 25th and 26th since 2/2019—after #SCOTUS hadn't done it once in the prior 15 years. Today's "One First" looks at why this shift is happening—and why, although it's preferable to unexplained stays, it still has lots of costs:

Letting your 3 year old scream throughout Project Hail Mary at the 6pm showing on Saturday night of the opening weekend is insanity

Clement is at the podium more than Sauer

"no human who has been alive during cherry blossom season ever thinks, ‘What we need is more room for cars to get around.’ It is cyclists and pedestrians that take over, and this is going to make the chaos infinitely worse.”

Being a journalist on any given day in 2026

this is completely insane: since when is it acceptable for a tech company to rewrite news outlets' headlines without their consent? especially at a time when audiences are sensitive to how stories are framed in headlines? (ie Israel/Palestine, the Trump admin, ICE) www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

Despite a 30-year-old precedent by originalism’s chief architect, the Supreme Court ruled Friday to allow an evangelical street protester’s lawsuit against a city ordinance that limits protests around concert venues. @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/street-preac...

Here's how the Supreme Court distinguished Scalia's opinion in Heck — typically bars defendants from using civil rights claims to undermine prior convictions — to allow the Evangelical street preacher's case to move forward www.courthousenews.com/street-preac...

SCOTUS opinions incoming at 10

In a loss for Apache women, Justice Kagan refused to pause a massive copper mining project set to turn a sacred religious site into a 2-mile-wide crater Under SCOTUS rules, apps that are denied by a single justice can be renewed with another justice www.courthousenews.com/last-hope-to...