The US Supreme Court will hear a rare pro se case filed by a Texas inmate. William Maxwell says he should be able to file a habeas suit challenging Texas BOP's denial of First Step Act credits that would let him transfer out early. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Justice Amy Coney Barrett's home was the target of a swatting attempt last night, Fairfax County police say. A caller falsely reported hearing "two or three gunshots" and arguing at her Virginia home. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

With today's opinions, only Landor v. Louisiana--a Rasfatarian inmate's religious liberty suit over his forced shaving--remains undecided from the Supreme Court's November sitting. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

The Supreme Court in two decisions today placed limits on when lower courts may consider the First Step Act's expanded compassionate release opportunities for inmates challenging their sentences. news.bgov.com/us-law-week/...

The Supreme Court dismisses as improvidently granted a death penalty case out of Alabama about how state courts should analyze multiple IQ tests. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justice Jackson, writes that it was a poor vehicle to decide the question. news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and...

Federal judges have expressed frustration repeatedly over the past year with having to read the tea leaves of the Supreme Court's unexplained emergency docket decisions. Last night, a South Carolina district judge had the rare chance to take his vexation directly to a justice.

Judge Richard Gergel asked Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson tonight whether lower courts are supposed to follow SCOTUS' often unreasoned emergency docket decisions over decades-old precedent. That's a "legitimate question," Jackson said. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

The Supreme Court stays a Fifth Circuit order that barred mail delivery of mifepristone nationwide. Justices Thomas and Alito dissent, w/ Thomas arguing any mail delivery violates the Comstock Act and Alito saying the stay undermines the court's holding in Dobbs.

Richard Glossip, who won a rare victory at the Supreme Court last year, gets bond as he heads toward retrial on murder charges. Glossip has spent more than two decades on Oklahoma's death row for the 1997 murder of his boss, Barry Van Treese. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

In one of two unanimous opinions delivered today, the Supreme Court said federal law doesn't bar state negligent hiring claims against freight brokers. The case is Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II. Justice Barrett writes for the court. news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and...

NOW: Virginia Dems/AG file expected emergency appeal to SCOTUS asking justices to stay Virginia Supreme Court's order invalidating the redistricting referendum. They argue the state Supreme Court's order misreads federal law fixing a single day for congressional elections.

Star litigator Neal Katyal raised eyebrows this week with a TED Talk revealing his use of an AI model he said helped predict questions from Supreme Court justices "almost verbatim." news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Paul Clement notched 9 more Supreme Court arguments this term—bringing the modern record for SCOTUS advocates into view. That hasn't escaped him. "My running joke is, 'I can tell you how many arguments I've done, but who's counting?'" Clement said. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Chief Justice John Roberts says Supreme Court arguments are going too long and are "maybe not as focused as usual." He suggested the court may look at reining them in a bit over the summer break. (via @suzannemonyak.bsky.social) news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

NOW: The Supreme Court rejects a long-shot request from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund to recall its fast-tracked Louisiana congressional map mandate. No justices note a dissent this time. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...

NOW: The Supreme Court agrees to expedite issuing its mandate in Louisiana v. Callais instead of allowing the normal 32-day waiting period to elapse. Justice Jackson dissents, accusing the court of causing "chaos" in Lousiana. news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...

NOW: Justice Samuel Alito grants a one-week administrative stay halting a Fifth Circuit order that blocked mailing of the abortion drug mifepristone nationwide.

Former clerks of the late Justice Antonin Scalia argued in a whopping 52% of all cases the Supreme Court heard this year. No other justices' chambers came close to putting up those kind of numbers. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

The Supreme Court unanimously sides with an anti-abortion group who says a subpoena from the NJ Attorney General's Office seeking donor lists violated their First Amendment rights. Justice Gorsuch writes for the court. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

The Supreme Court denies cert for James Broadax, a Texas death row inmate who argued prosecutors unconstitutionally used rap lyrics in his case to exploit racial stereotypes. His appeal drew support from Travis Scott, Fat Joe and other artists. His execution is set for Thursday.

Justice Jackson probed how an anti-immigrant admin could use an unreviewable power to deny green card holders permanent reentry--rankling some of her colleagues. Justice Alito asked if the court needed to accept her "conspiracy theory" to decide the case. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Retired Justice Stephen Breyer defended his former colleagues on the Supreme Court amid growing scrutiny of the emergency docket, saying he does not believe any of the justices are serving to "carry out some political agenda." news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and-tel...

SCOTUS will hear a plea from Catholic schools who say they're being unlawfully excluded from Colorado's universal pre-k program on religious grounds. Could have been a vehicle to revisit Employment Division v. Smith but the justices decline to do so. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

NOW: Justice Sonia Sotomayor issues rare public apology following her equally rare public swipe last week at Brett Kavanaugh. "I regret my hurtful comments," Sotomayor says in a statement released by the court, adding that she's apologized to Kavanaugh. news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and...

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson again levies criticism of the Supreme Court's handling of its emergency docket, saying it risks public confidence and could create "zombie proceedings" that drag on in lower courts after SCOTUS has already tipped its hand. news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and...

“I had a colleague in that case who wrote, you know, these are only temporary stops," Sotomayor said. "This is from a man whose parents were professionals. And probably doesn’t really know any person who works by the hour." @jordanonrecord.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Justice Sotomayor, who didn't hold back last year when the court allowed immigration stops to resume in LA, had more to say tonight about the only one of her Supreme Court colleagues willing to put his name on that decision. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

The Supreme Court will not take Steve Bannon up on his request to rule on the precedent underlying his conviction. Instead, it grants cert only to send it back down to the lower courts, where the DOJ decided earlier this year to abandon the case.

The Supreme Court says Justice Samuel Alito was seen by a physician last month after falling ill during an event in Philadelphia. He showed no signs of lingering illness during arguments this week. (h/t to Joan Biskupic, who first reported the news.) news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/justi...

Citing in part SCOTUS' presidential immunity decision in Trump v. United States, OLC argues the Presidential Records Act is unconstitutional. Opinion acknowledges court's post-Watergate ruling about Nixon's records could be an issue: Link: www.justice.gov/olc/media/14...

The president has further considered yesterday's arguments, it seems.

SCOTUS didn't exactly seemed impressed by the SG's sources & examples today, calling them at various points "obscure," "esoteric" and "quirky." Kagan questioned cite to a Lincoln funeral oration. Gorsuch asked why he was hearing about Roman law. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

No sense from the president that he thinks things went well today.

Solicitor General John Sauer says it's "a new world" now because 8 billion people are a plane ride away from having a child who is a U.S. citizen. Chief Justice Roberts: "It's a new world. It's the same Constitution."

Arguing in defense of birthright citizenship today will be ACLU National Legal Director Cecillia Wang. It's her second case before the Supreme Court, where she once clerked for Justices Harry Blackmun and Stephen Breyer. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

"After all, the White House does not belong to any one man - not even a president!" Judge Richard Leon drops at least 18 of his trademark exclamation points in ordering a stop to construction on Trump's White House ballroom (delays enforcement for 14 days so DOJ can appeal) buff.ly/WG6ktOX

Justice Jackson penned the lone dissent today as SCOTUS backed a Christian counselor's challenge to Colorado's conversion therapy ban. Justice Kagan says she's "reimagining" the court's longstanding distinction between viewpoint and content-based restrictions. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

The Supreme Court appears ready to side with a former Twitter employee convicted of spying for Saudi Arabia who says DOJ charged him in the wrong venue. Clear the government was in a tough spot when multiple justices brought up the Boston Tea Party. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

In its second and final opinion of the day, the Supreme Court holds unanimously that Internet service providers aren't liable for users' copyright infringement. Justice Thomas writes for the court. Link: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

In the first opinion of the day, the Supreme Court holds 8-1 that the fugitive-tolling doctrine does not apply to individuals who abscond during supervised release. Justice Alito writes in dissent. Link: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

The Supreme Court today considered whether to revive "metering" -- a rescinded policy that allowed immigration officers to turn back asylum seekers at the Mexican border. Another option: Just dismiss the whole case as moot. news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and...

The Supreme Court has declined for a second time to hear an appeal from Rodney Reed, a Texas death row inmate who says DNA testing could prove his innocence in a 1998 murder conviction. The court previously allowed his civil rights claim to proceed. news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/supre...

The Supreme Court reverses the 2nd Circuit, saying a Vermont officer enjoys qualified immunity for using a painful rear wristlock to remove a protester from the state capitol in 2015. All three liberal justices dissent. news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/justi...

Writing for the unanimous court, Justice Kagan says some language in Justice Scalia's 1994 opinion in Heck v. Humphrey may have "swept too broad." It did not consider, and was never meant to bar, purely forward-looking civil rights suits like Olivier's.

The Supreme Court rules unanimously in favor of Evangelical street preacher Gabriel Olivier, who filed a civil rights challenge to a Mississippi city ordinance he was previously convicted under. His suit isn't barred by Heck v. Humphrey, court says. news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/supre...

On what would be Justice Antonin Scalia's 90th birthday, reupping my story w/ @justinfwise.bsky.social about how, 10 years after his death, the late justice's name carries more weight than ever at the Supreme Court. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Federal public defenders are standing up a new Supreme Court Advocacy Project. To lead it, they've tapped Ashley Robertson, a former clerk to Justice Kagan who argued two cases this term for the SG's office. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

The Supreme Court will take up a dispute over a permit allowing the US Air Force to detonate hazardous munitions in Guam. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

SCOTUS signals it may expand options for criminal defendants who sign plea deals to appeal their sentences. Several justices balked at the Trump admin's position, which argued appeal waivers are enforceable even for sentences motivated by racism/sexism. news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and...

NOW: Supreme Court partially reinstates injunction on policy barring California schools from disclosing students' gender identity to parents. Justice Kagan, in dissent, accuses conservatives of double standards in relying on substantive due process. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...