For this week's Supreme Court Brief, I spoke to @ij.org lawyer Marie Miller about how #SCOTUS decisions have made it a "huge long shot" to pursue civil rights lawsuits against ICE agents. Miller's client, a U.S. citizen and veteran, was detained for 3 days by ICE this summer.

Oklahoma tribes are back at #SCOTUS to fulfill the promise of sovereignty after a 2020 ruling that about half the state is still Indian Country. This time it's about whether tribal members must pay state income taxes. Bringing the case? Former SG Elizabeth Prelogar. www.law.com/nationallawj...

After a big Supreme Court case in 2022, I was interviewing ppl outside when I ran into Rob Reiner milling about. He was polite and seemed to know a lot about the case, being friends w @nealkatyal.bsky.social. He just had one question before we started: "Are you associated in any way w/ Alex Jones?"

On today's Supreme Court Brief, former FTC Chair Bill Kovacic explains what the justices got wrong about the agency during Monday's hearing in Trump v. Slaughter. Both liberal and conservative justices debated a "caricature" of the FTC, rather than reality. podcasts.apple.com/pl/podcast/f...

In a testament to the enduring power of Scaliaisms, I'm adding 'this wolf comes as a wolf' to my running SCOTUS argument clichés list... nominations welcome

This hearing just wrapped. My read is that it went worse for the GOP than expected. Chief Justice Roberts asked an early question revealing skepticism with their campaign finance challenge. And other than Justices Kavanaugh and Alito, the conservative majority was largely mum throughout the hearing.

After posing an extistential threat to the legal profession earlier in 2025, it is amazing watching DOJ slow walking into oblivion the the law firm executive orders appeals. The latest: A motion for a 45-day extension of time to file a motion regarding the appellate briefing format and schedule.

The Supreme Court is hearing whether VP Vance can challenge a campaign finance law, but it's unclear that he can do so having so far disclaimed any 2028 run. Vance's lawyer says the court shouldn't "blind itself" to what is "obvious." #SCOTUS

No surprises in today’s #SCOTUS hearing on independent agencies. The conservatives seem poised to ditch precedent upholding their constitutionality. Trump‘s SG called that 1935 decision (Humphrey’s Executor) a “decaying husk.” Sotomayor said doing so would “destroy the structure of government.”

Big day for the federal bureaucracy at #SCOTUS today, where the justices will consider overturning 90 years of precedent protecting the independence of certain gov’t agencies. At issue is whether Trump can fire a Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission w/o cause.

BREAKING: Supreme Court agrees to decide whether Trump's restrictions on birthright citizenship are constitutional. #SCOTUS

On the latest Supreme Court Brief podcast, I chat with @richardre.bsky.social about the "legal realignment" happening at #SCOTUS and the judiciary. Listen and subscribe: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

BREAKING: Texas can use new gerrymandered congressional districts in upcoming elections. Supreme Court's conservative majority stays lower court order that blocked the new map as racially-motivated. The liberals dissent. #SCOTUS

In today’s Supreme Court Brief newsletter, I discuss the exalted status of a ‘Scalia opinion’—compared to those of other justices—at today’s #SCOTUS. www.law.com/supremecourt...

The Supreme Court's emergency docket cases are typically dealt with in rushed briefing and short orders. So it was notable to me that Justice Jackson raised the court's Perdomo ruling allowing the Trump administration's ICE raids during oral arguments yesterday. #SCOTUS www.law.com/supremecourt...

Trump says tariff revenue will be used to pay for $2K checks to citizens and pay down national debt. Just last week, his administration assured the Supreme Court that these are "not revenue-raising tariffs." #SCOTUS

JUST IN: Supreme Court denies Kim Davis' petition to reconsider landmark ruling protecting same-sex marriage. #SCOTUS

That was quick. Supreme Court wraps up two hearings this morning before 11:30, giving the justices plenty of time to get ready for tomorrow's major showdown over Trump's tariffs. #SCOTUS

The NRA is back at #SCOTUS after its 9-0 First Amendment victory last year. Now the group is accusing the 2nd Circuit of defying the justices' ruling... If that sounds familiar, the NRA cites Gorsuch's scolding of lower courts for defying emergency docket 'precedent'. www.law.com/nationallawj...

NEW: Supreme Court asks for additional briefs in pending case over Trump's National Guard deployment to Chicago, holding off, for now, on immediately allowing the president to put 700 troops throughout the city. #SCOTUS

Thing about calling it the "interim docket" is... it also applies to executions, deportations (to places like South Sudan), expiring aid money, and countless other scenarios that can't be undone. I'm not sold, and will keep using "emergency docket" until a better term comes along. #SCOTUS

In 2023, two conservative justices banded together to save the Supreme Court's Voting Rights Act precedents. Two years later that coalition is crumbling and the VRA faces another existential crisis. #SCOTUS www.law.com/supremecourt...

NAACP Legal Defense Fund's Janai Nelson is delivering one of the most poised, clear-throated and confident Supreme Court arguments I've heard in a while as she defends Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Will it matter? #SCOTUS

A united front in Trump and other cases, the Supreme Court’s liberal wing is at odds over who should have access to the federal courts. #SCOTUS t.co/V13jGECNw5

"Potential disaster." "Unseemly" "You're walking away from your brief." "Are you seriously arguing..." Illinois' SG had a tough go at the Supreme Court this morning arguing that a GOP candidate lacks standing to challenge the state's mail-in ballot deadline. #SCOTUS

The Republican mail-in ballot challenge currently being argued at #SCOTUS is an example of how liberal justices have become the new hawks on standing. Only Justice Kagan seems to contemplate how restrictive standing rules for election challenges could harm Democrats in the future.

Bans on “conversion therapy” for kids seem likely to fall after today’s Supreme Court hearing in Chiles v. Salazar. #SCOTUS

NEW: Supreme Court rejects Google’s emergency request to stave off court-ordered changes to the Google Play store following an antitrust suit from the makers of Fortnite. The court continues to rebuff private litigants on emergency docket, despite success of Trump. #SCOTUS

Supreme Court agrees to review whether the Second Amendment bars a Hawaii law requiring affirmative consent from the owner before someone can bring a handgun on a property. #SCOTUS

BREAKING: Supreme Court will hold oral arguments over Trump’s attempt to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook in January. #SCOTUS

BREAKING: By 6-3 vote, Supreme Court says Trump can freeze $4 billion in foreign aid appropriated by Congress. Liberals dissent. #SCOTUS www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

BREAKING: Supreme Court allows Trump to keep Democratic appointee off Federal Trade Commission for now and formally agrees to reconsider 90-year-old precedent upholding FTC independence. Oral arg's in December. Liberals dissent. Story tk. #SCOTUS

NEW: Trump asks Supreme Court to reinstate State Department policy requiring "biological sex" listed on passports, which a group of trans plaintiffs have challenged as discriminatory. #SCOTUS

BREAKING: President Trump asks Supreme Court for permission to fire Federal Reserve Board member Lisa Cook. www.scribd.com/document/919...

NEW: Supreme Court allows ICE in LA area to continue stopping folks based on ethnicity, accent, and job. "We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job," Sotomayor dissents.

The Trump administration is pushing the U.S. Supreme Court to consider the constitutionality of a federal law restricting users of drugs such as marijuana from owning firearms amid growing discord in the lower federal courts over the issue. #SCOTUS www.law.com/nationallawj...

Final six #SCOTUS opinions coming up at 10 a.m. ET! Stay tuned. They are: -Trump birthright citizenship EO -Age verification for porn sites -Opt-outs for readings of LGBTQ books -Challenge to FCC's Universal Service Fund -Challenge to ACA task force -Louisiana "racial gerrymander" case

More Supreme Court rulings coming up in a few! Stay tuned. #SCOTUS

NEW: Supreme Court will not fast-track petition challenging Trump tariffs.

"This case gives fodder to the unfortunate perception that moneyed interests enjoy an easier road to relief in this Court than ordinary citizens." Quite the line from Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in her dissent today in a case challenging California's pro-EV rules. #SCOTUS

More Supreme Court rulings at 10 am! Stay tuned. #SCOTUS

NEW: Supreme Court unanimously rules that reverse-discrimination plaintiffs do not need to meet higher bar for proving claims under Title VII in a decision written by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. #SCOTUS www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Worth noting that this "very plausible explanation" was a third rail that no justice dared go near during the recent #SCOTUS hearing over the nationwide injunction question.

The Supreme Court is likely to soon consider whether Americans have a constitutional right to own AR-15s. The court was just one vote shy of hearing a challenge to Maryland's ban on the devastatingly lethal and (extremely popular) semiautomatic rifles. #SCOTUS www.law.com/nationallawj...

As the 10th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges approaches, support for same-sex couples is reaching historic highs, but LGBTQ rights are losing a foothold across the high court bench. @courthousenews.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/a-decade-aft...

NEW: Supreme Court says DC Circ. was wrong to block approval of railroad line from Utah's Uinta Basin to the freight rail network. The lower court was wrong in finding a federal environmental review inadequate, #SCOTUS says. Liberal justices concur in judgment. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

BREAKING: Supreme Court DEADLOCKS in case over the nation's first proposed religious public charter school. The court splits 4-4 in light of Barrett's recusal, affirming the Oklahoma Supreme Court's decision excluding religious school from charter program. #SCOTUS supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

NEW: Supreme Court unanimously upholds the federal fraud conviction of a business owner who used a scam "disadvantaged business" to obtain lucrative PennDot contracts. Justice Barrett has the opinion. #SCOTUS www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

BREAKING: Supreme Court issues injunction blocking Alien Enemies Act deportations from Northern Texas, admonishes Fifth Circuit for throwing out migrants' appeal, and says Trump administration's short deportation notice to detainees "surely does not pass muster." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

New: Trump administration files a new emergency #SCOTUS appeal attacking a nationwide injunction, this one prohibiting widescale government layoffs. www.scribd.com/document/862...