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The cases that remain

By Amy Howe on June 24 at 1:07 pm

Ten cases remain for the Supreme Court to decide this term. These cases involve such issues as whether the government may implement its birthright citizenship order nationwide and if religious families at public schools have a First Amendment right to opt out of instruction that includes LGBTQ+ themes.

Carved details along top of Supreme Court building are pictured

The Supreme Court’s next opinion day is Thursday, June 26. (Katie Barlow)

EMERGENCY DOCKET

Trump administration claims district court defied Supreme Court’s order allowing for immigrants’ deportation 

By Amy Howe on June 24 at 4:40 pm

On Tuesday, the Trump administration filed a brief urging the justices to correct what it labeled a district court’s “unprecedented defiance” of a Supreme Court order allowing the government to remove certain immigrants from the country. Attorneys for the immigrants responded that the “lives and safety” of the immigrants “are at imminent risk.”

EMERGENCY DOCKET

Supreme Court pauses district court order preventing immigrants from being deported to third-party countries

By Amy Howe on June 23 at 6:18 pm

The Supreme Court on Monday put on hold a district court order that had stopped the government from removing immigrants to countries not identified in their removal orders. In dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote that the majority was granting the government “emergency relief from an order it has repeatedly defied.”

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Court to decide whether government officials can be held personally liable for violating inmate’s religious liberty

By Amy Howe on June 23 at 12:41 pm

The justices agreed to hear a case on whether government officials can be sued in their individual capacity for violating a prisoner’s religious liberty rights. The court declined to review the case of a person scheduled to be executed on Wednesday.

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WHAT WE’RE READING

The morning read for Tuesday, June 24

By Zachary Shemtob on June 24, 2025

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Tuesday morning read:

Coming up: On Thursday, June 26, the court expects to issue one or more opinions from the current term. We’ll be live at 9:30 a.m. EDT that day for the opinion(s).

WHAT WE’RE READING

The morning read for Monday, June 23

By Zachary Shemtob on June 23, 2025

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Monday morning read:

Coming up: On Thursday, June 26, the court expects to issue one or more opinions from the current term. We’ll be live at 9:30 a.m. EDT that day for the opinion(s).

View from the court

Just the Fax

By Mark Walsh on June 20, 2025

It’s a sweetly mild morning here on this day of the summer solstice. Outside the court, staff members of the Architect of the Capitol, who tend to the grounds not only of Congress but the court, are planting summer flowers on the north gardens of the court building.

Inside the courtroom, it seems a bit empty. Every seat in the bar section is unfilled until the contingent from the U.S. solicitor general’s office arrives. SG D. John Sauer was here Wednesday for opinions, but he is absent today, perhaps once again tied up by emergency docket matters. Deputy SG Malcolm Stewart leads five of his colleagues to the counsel tables.

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OPINIONS OVERVIEW

Additional opinions from Friday, June 20

By SCOTUSblog on June 20, 2025

On Friday, June 20, the Supreme Court also released the following opinions:

— In Esteras v. United States, the justices considered whether courts weighing a revocation of supervised release should address certain sentencing factors, such as retribution, that are not listed in the law concerning supervised release but that are part of the law governing sentencing. 

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OPINION ANALYSIS

Supreme Court prevents retired firefighter from suing former employer under the Americans with Disabilities Act

By Amy Howe on June 20, 2025

The Supreme Court on Friday shut down efforts by a retired Florida firefighter to sue her former employer under the Americans with Disabilities Act. By a vote of 8-1, the justices ruled that Karyn Stanley, who was forced to retire in 2018 because of Parkinson’s disease, cannot challenge the termination of her health insurance after she retired.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the lone dissenter, writing that the court’s decision “renders meaningless” the protections provided in the ADA “for disabled workers’ retirement benefits just when those protections matter most.”

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