Court upholds Tennessee’s ban on certain medical treatments for transgender minors

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

• The Supreme Court now has a chance to have the final say on Trump’s tariffs (Alexis Keenan, Yahoo Finance)
• Trump Will Go To Supreme Court If Newsom Wins Troops Fight; Appeals Court Considers Temporary Restraining Order (Dominic Patten, Deadline)
• What Have We Learned about Justice Barrett? (Jonathan H. Adler, Reason)
• Supreme Court faces new headwinds with roughly 2 weeks left in the term (Nina Totenberg, NPR)
• The Supreme Court Cleared Him at Oklahoma’s Behest. Now the State Wants to Try Him Again? (Austin Sarat, Slate)

Coming up: On Friday, June 20, 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).

On Wednesday, June 18, we were live as the court released opinions in United States v. Skrmetti, NRC v. Texas, EPA v. Calumet, Oklahoma v. EPA, and Perttu v. Richards. 

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

• Poll: Americans overwhelmingly want Trump to obey court rulings, but MAGA Republicans are split (Dylan Ebs, NBC News)
• Ed Sheeran’s ‘Thinking Out Loud’ Copyright Lawsuit Won’t Go to Supreme Court (Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone)
• Supreme Court Takes Up New Jersey Pro-Life Pregnancy Center’s Challenge to Sweeping State Subpoena (James Lynch, National Review)
• “The real wild card is Amy Coney Barrett”: The Supreme Court case that could eviscerate trans rights (Tatyana Tandanpolie, Salon)
• A Criminal Defendant’s Case So Messed Up It United Clarence Thomas and KBJ (Robyn Nicole Sanders, Slate)

Coming up: Tomorrow, June 18, 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 (with a special guest) for the opinion(s).

The Supreme Court on Monday added two new cases to its docket for the 2025-26 term, both involving efforts to litigate disputes in federal rather than state courts. In a list of orders released from the justices’ private conference last week, the court announced that it will hear arguments next term in cases arising from New Jersey’s attempt to investigate a group of crisis pregnancy centers and from efforts to hold oil companies responsible for production of crude oil in Louisiana more than 80 years ago.  

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

• Justice Barrett: In Her Own Words (Jodi Kantor, The New York Times)
• Americans don’t see Supreme Court as politically neutral, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds (Andrew Goudsward, John Kruzel, and Jason Lange, Reuters)
• Supreme Court justices get snippy as key decisions loom (Joan Biskupic, CNN)
• What to Make of the Unusual Unanimity Towards the End of this SCOTUS Term (Adam Feldman, Legalytics)
• Why two conservative justices want courts to reconsider disability discrimination suits (Maureen Groppe, USA Today)

Coming up: On Wednesday, June 18, 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).