JUST IN: The Trump administration officially withdraws its emergency application that had asked the Supreme Court to stay a Rhode Island court order requiring full payment of November SNAP benefits in light of last night's deal to reopen the government. #SCOTUS

NEW: The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two cases over transgender athlete bans on Jan. 13 and President Donald Trump's attempt to fire Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook on Jan. 21, according to a calendar released by #SCOTUS today.

Today, the Supreme Court will hear argument in two cases that ask what information federal judges can consider when deciding whether to reduce a prisoner's sentence under the First Step Act. #SCOTUS

BREAKING: The Supreme Court extends through Thursday its stay of an order requiring the Trump administration to issue November SNAP benefits. The House of Representatives will likely vote tomorrow on a bill to reopen the government, which, if passed, would moot this case. #SCOTUS

President Trump invoked the founding generation's distrust of standing armies in a bid to convince the Supreme Court that he can send the National Guard to Chicago, but Illinois and the city contend the Guard is supposed to be a backup to the military. www.law360.com/articles/240...

The Supreme Court's conservative majority seems to doubt a Rastafarian can hold prison guards personally responsible for violating his religious rights by forcibly shaving his dreadlocks, saying a law doesn't give enough warning about potential liability. www.law360.com/articles/240...

The Supreme Court WILL NOT review Kim Davis' challenge to the constitutionality of same-sex marriage established in Obergefell v. Hodges. #SCOTUS

BREAKING: The Supreme Court agrees to review a case out of Mississippi that asks if federal Election Day statutes preempt state laws that allow the counting of mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day but received after. #SCOTUS

Good morning from the Supreme Court, where the justices will hear arguments in a Rastafarian's bid to sue Louisiana prison guards for forcibly shaving his dreadlocks and an ICE detention center contractor's attempt to duck claims that it violated forced labor laws. #SCOTUS

UPDATE: #SCOTUS Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson gives the Trump administration until 4 p.m. ET today to file additional briefing in its bid to pause a lower court order requiring them to pay out full November SNAP benefits. Last night, the First Circuit declined to pause the order.

BREAKING: Supreme Court Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson temporarily stays a Rhode Island court order that would’ve required the Trump administration to pay out November SNAP benefits, saying the pause is needed to allow the First Circuit to review the order. #SCOTUS

NEW: The Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to pause a lower court order requiring the government to dole out $4 billion in Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) funding, asking for for a temporary reprieve by 9:30 p.m. #SCOTUS www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court ALLOWS the Trump administration to refuse to issue passports to transgender and nonbinary individuals that reflect their gender identity amid a legal challenge of the policy change. Liberal #SCOTUS justices dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan expressed exasperation during the tariffs case oral arguments today about the Trump administration's frequent invocation of "emergencies." #SCOTUS

UPDATE: After almost 3 hours of arguments, it appears the majority of Supreme Court justices are skeptical that President Donald Trump has authority to issue tariffs under the statute. #SCOTUS

Good morning from the Supreme Court, where the justices are set to hear arguments over whether President Donald Trump has the authority to impose tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. #SCOTUS

The Supreme Court will begin its November arguments session today by hearing two cases about supervised release fugitives and military contractor liability. #SCOTUS (1/4)

BREAKING: The Supreme Court REQUESTS MORE BRIEFING in the Trump administration's bid to send hundreds of federalized National Guard troops in Chicago to protect federal immigration officials, asking the parties to discuss the meaning of "regular forces." #SCOTUS

New analysis: Since the Supreme Court's Medina Decision in June, four states have taken action to either remove Planned Parenthood from their public benefits or revisit litigation that could block its Medicaid reimbursements, even though Medicaid can't be used to pay for abortions.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court agrees to hear three new cases, including a challenge to the constitutionality of a federal law that prohibits drug addicts from possessing firearms (United States v. Hemani, No. 24-1234). #SCOTUS www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

UPDATE: The Supreme Court has asked for Illinois and Chicago to respond by 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 20. #SCOTUS

President Trump asks the Supreme Court to lift order prohibiting the deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago. #SCOTUS www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

NEW: The Supreme Court will run out of funding Saturday, Oct. 18, but will continue holding oral arguments and releasing orders and opinions throughout the government shutdown, per a #SCOTUS spokesperson. The court's building, however, will be closed to the public.

President Trump & friends formally ask the Supreme Court to overrule Humphrey's Executor v. U.S., which allows Congress to bar the president from firing certain agency officials without cause. "Unlike a fine wine ... its poor reasoning has soured." www.law360.com/articles/240...

After 2.5 hours of argument, it seems clear that the Supreme Court will further limit the Voting Rights Act, but the justices are sharply divided over how to do that. #SCOTUS

Good morning from the Supreme Court, where #SCOTUS will hear arguments in a major Voting Rights Act case that asks if Louisiana's intentional drawing of a second majority-Black voting district violated the 14th & 15th amendments' ban on discriminatory voting practices. www.law360.com/articles/239...

As a 20-something lawyer in Reagan's DOJ, #SCOTUS Justice Roberts argued a test focused on the discriminatory effects of legislative redistricting on minorities would be unconstitutional. Now he has a chance to make that view the law of the land. www.law360.com/articles/239...

Today, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two cases related to the sentencing of criminal defendants. 🧵 Listen to #SCOTUS oral arguments here: www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...

JUST IN: The Supreme Court decide if there are permissible exceptions to a general criminal appeal waiver. The underlying dispute involves a man's challenge to an order that he take prescribed mental health medication while on surpervised release for a wire fraud charge. #SCOTUS

The Supreme Court will hear two cases today about the constitutionality of Colorado’s conversion therapy ban and whether criminal defendants can be sentenced twice for the same conduct under a lesser-included crime. #SCOTUS 🧵

The Supreme Court WILL NOT hear Ghislaine Maxwell's appeal of her 2022 sex trafficking conviction, which she claimed was partially barred by a provision in Jeffrey Epstein's nonprosecution agreement that promised not to bring criminal charges against his co-conspirators. #SCOTUS

Good morning from the Supreme Court on the first day of the October 2025 term! #SCOTUS will hear two cases today about the Sixth Amendment right to counsel and whether a Delaware state law requirement for medical malpractice suits applies in federal court cases. 🧵

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has agreed to hear five new cases, including a challenge to Hawaii concealed carry law and two cases involving the rights of U.S. individuals to sue the Cuban government over property seizures. #SCOTUS

BREAKING: The Supreme Court WON'T ACT on President Donald Trump's request to fire Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook until it hears arguments in the case January 2026, one month after #SCOTUS will hear arguments in an FTC firing case.

President Trump's appeals asking the Supreme Court to upend the understanding that the 14th Amendment grants citizenship to nearly anyone born in the U.S. are now public on #SCOTUS's website. Responses due Oct. 29. Trump v. Washington: shorturl.at/TA1mU Trump v. Barbara: shorturl.at/BtPDi

BREAKING: The Supreme Court ALLOWS the Trump administration to hold onto $4B in foreign aid funding while Congress considers a proposal to cut it, pausing a lower court order that required the money to be spent by Sept. 30. #SCOTUS www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court ALLOWS Trump to fire FTC commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, and agrees to decide if removal protections for the agency are unconstitutional, but declines to take up additional cases. Case will be argued in December. #SCOTUS www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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In the second emergency application *today*, the Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to halt a court order that invalidated DHS' rescission of temporary protected status for Venezuelans, claiming the lower court disregarded prior #SCOTUS rulings. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

BREAKING: President Donald Trump asks the Supreme Court to allow the Department of State to stop issuing passports with "X" sex designations, arguing a lower court order requiring it "has no basis in logic or law." #SCOTUS www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

UPDATE: #SCOTUS requests a response to this application by Thursday, Sept. 25, but is mum on the administration's request for an administrative stay.

JUST IN: President Donald Trump asks the Supreme Court to lift a lower court order prohibiting him from firing Federal Reserve board member Lisa Cook. #SCOTUS documentcloud.org/documents/26...

NEW: The Supreme Court will hear challenges to President Donald Trump's power to issue tariffs on Nov. 5. A death penalty case about intellectual disability has been removed from the month's oral argument calendar. #SCOTUS

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#SCOTUS Justice Amy Coney Barrett, at a Nortre Dame event, on political violence in the wake of Charlie Kirk's killing: "I think it's important ... that we learn to have disagreements in a civil and collegial way," adding political violence is "just not a way to run a society."

In a largely overshadowed case, the Supreme Court upholds a 4th Circuit order requiring South Carolina to allow a specific trans high school student to use the bathroom corresponding with their gender identity despite a state ban. #SCOTUS Justices Thomas, Alito & Gorsuch dissent.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court will decide whether President Trump has authority to issue tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Oral arguments will be heard the first week of November. #SCOTUS

BREAKING: The Supreme Court ALLOWS the Trump administration to conduct immigration raids in Los Angeles without probable cause. #SCOTUS Justices Sotomayor, Kagan and Jackson dissent, calling the ruling "yet another grave misuse of our emergency docket." www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

NEW: President Trump asks #SCOTUS let him fire FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter without cause. She was first appointed by Trump in 2018, and then reappointed by President Biden. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

President Trump's appeal of a lower court ruling that found his emergency tariffs unlawful has officially been docketed on the Supreme Court website as case No. 25-250. #SCOTUS www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...