The Supreme Court added a dispute over the landmark civil rights law Title IX to its docket on Monday, agreeing to hear a sex discrimination appeal from two former Georgia university employees. @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/supreme-cour...

Odd thing for a federal judge to do

NOTABLE: Judge overseeing Trump's libel suit against BBC moonlights a media criticism essay for The Free Press. US District Judge Roy Altman (Trump/FLSD) slams Nick Kristof's essay for NYT Opinion accusing Israel of systemic sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners www.thefp.com/p/the-new-yo...

Justice Gorsuch spotted at the Uniformed Services University graduation this morning

Unlike redistricting moves netting Republicans additional seats in red states, Virginia’s redraw was approved by more than 1.6 million voters. @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social's report: www.courthousenews.com/supreme-cour...

As someone pointed out to me offline, this is a really funny typo in Alito’s mifepristone dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

SCOTUS issued its order at 5:26 pm. In a sign of the last-minute rush — due to Alito's own deadline — his dissent initially included a formatting error before being quickly fixed by the court. www.courthousenews.com/supreme-cour...

BREAKING: Supreme Court grants abortion pill makers' emergency appeal (after a brief lapse of the admin stay), keeping mifepristone accessible via telehealth and mail nationwide Justices Thomas and Alito dissent

Breaking: The Supreme Court's administrative stay has now lapsed Without intervention from the justices, restrictions on access to the abortion pill go back into effect

20 minutes to go...

SCOTUS faces a 5 pm deadline to weigh in on additional restrictions for access to mifepristone courthousenews.com/articles/abo...

BREAKING AP: When Kash Patel visited Hawaii last summer, the FBI took pains to note he was not on vacation. Left out of FBI's news releases was an exclusive excursion that Patel took days later when he participated in what government officials described as a "VIP snorkel" around the USS Arizona.

WOW an Oklahoma judge grants Richard Glossip's bond request He has been incarcerated for 29 years, faced 9 execution dates and ate 3 last meals. Last year, SCOTUS said he deserved a new hearing after prosecutorial misconduct was uncovered. courthousenews.com/supreme-cour...

The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that a freight broker could face liability for a 2017 tractor-trailer crash that led to the amputation of a truck driver’s lower leg. @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/trucker-gets...

SCOTUS opinions incoming at 10

Wednesday vibes

Heavy machinery and orange vest-clad construction workers nearly outnumbered tourists on the National Mall as the nation’s capital undergoes a transformation to celebrate its 250th year. @courthousenews.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/dc-trades-tr...

The National Mall is unrecognizable with all the construction for America250

New: White House says Trump will visit Walter Reed on May 26 for “annual dental and medical evaluations”

BREAKING: Supreme Court clears the way for Alabama to redraw congressional maps ahead of midterms Apparent 6-3 order with liberals in dissent

SCOTUS has requested a response by Thursday at 5pm Coincidentally, also Alito's new deadline in the mifepristone case. OH AND, we're getting SCOTUS opinions that morning. www.courthousenews.com/articles/vir...

This argument from VA Dems is pretty interesting. They invoke Watson v. RNC, claiming that the federal definition of election day warrants SCOTUS' intervention www.courthousenews.com/articles/vir...

Breaking: Virginia Dems ask SCOTUS to block state high court ruling invalidating their redistricting maps

Alito extends administrative stay on the drug makers' emergency applications to Thursday 5 pm That means mifepristone access remains accessible via telehealth and mail at least until then www.courthousenews.com/articles/abo...

Trump's SCOTUS appeal of E. Jean Carroll's civil case has been rescheduled for the 10th time

It's shaping up to be a busy day on the SCOTUS shadow docket. First, Alito's admin stay in the mifepristone case expires at 5pm. The drug makers need a stay before then to avoid further restrictions on the abortion pill www.courthousenews.com/articles/abo...

The realist shit to ever appear in a gov memo.

Anyway happy Friday

I just told a reporter that it would be quite ironic for Democrats to embrace a strong version of the independent state legislature theory in a case that they are almost sure to lose at SCOTUS.

I have no expectation that SCOTUS will take an interest in this. But there is a theory. In Moore v. Harper, SCOTUS said state courts "may not transgress the ordinary bounds of judicial review such that they arrogate to themselves the power vested in state legislatures to regulate federal elections."

Alabama maps are back at SCOTUS Citing Callais, the state asks to reinstate its 2023 maps that courts previously deemed an illegal racial gerrymander

It’s telling that Alabama took 14 years to implement Brown (you MUST desegregate) and < 14 days to implement Callais (you CAN eliminate Black districts if you call them Democratic, but you don’t HAVE to).

ICYMI: Abortion pill fight brings volatility of post-Roe world back to SCOTUS www.courthousenews.com/abortion-pil...

Abortion pill fight brings volatility of post-Roe world back to SCOTUS Louisiana asked for help enforcing its near-total abortion ban on Thursday, forcing the justices to confront how a state’s policy preferences could imperil healthcare nationwide.

Louisiana says if SCOTUS grants a stay on mifepristone restrictions, it should grant cert before judgment and hear oral arguments before summer recess

The Supreme Court denied in a single sentence a motion by Black voters for the justices to reconsider their decision to allow Louisiana to redraw its maps ahead of the midterms. The court held last week that adding a second majority-Black district was unconstitutional.

Within hours of each other on Wednesday news broke that the FBI is investigating the leader of Virginia's redistricting push and leaks related to the Atlantic's reporting on Kash Patel

Justice Elena Kagan refused on Wednesday to put a battle royale over anticompetitive practices on pause after Apple warned upcoming hearings could reshape the global app market. @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/apple-denied...

The court has denied the motion to recall the judgment.

This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...

Justice Kagan has denied this application

ICYMI: Apple asked the Supreme Court to drop in on a battle royale with Epic Games over anticompetitive practices on its app store. @courthousenews.bsky.social courthousenews.com/apple-asks-s...

Scientists are wary of glyphosate. MAHA loathes it. And our yearlong investigation shows California is spraying it everywhere.

Even after a flurry of emergency orders, two Supreme Court oral arguments and a landmark ruling, the justices can’t shake the bitter fight over Louisiana’s congressional districts. @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/black-voters...

Oh you thought Louisiana v. Callais was finally over? Think again. Civil rights groups filed a motion to recall the judgment since the court relied on that reasoning in last night's order granting early release for the certified judgment

This story adopts, entirely uncritically, Kennedy’s framing for this effort, including his apparent claim that getting off SSRIs is harder than quitting heroin.

Publishers including Cengage Learning, Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw and Scott Turow are demanding a jury trial to review their claims of copyright infringement. on.wsj.com/4u3vyGU

This seems like a long way of conceding that, yes, "shadow docket" is the best name for it: blog.dividedargument.com/p/the-docket...

42,000 Louisianians voted absentee before Gov. Landry suspended US House primaries lailluminator.com/briefs/42000...