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Cherry-picked history: Reva Siegel on “living originalism” in Dobbs

By Angie Gou on Aug. 11 at 4:57 p.m.

During the 18th annual Robert H. Jackson lecture, a leading scholar of legal history criticized the court’s use of originalism, calling it an outcome-driven ideology rather than a neutral method of interpretation.

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Security fencing around the Supreme Court. (Katie Barlow)

PETITIONS OF THE WEEK

Louisiana inmate returns to the court after 18-year delay in resentencing

By Kalvis Golde on Aug. 12 at 3:58 p.m.

A weekly look at new and notable petitions seeking Supreme Court review. This week: a due-process challenge to a sentencing delay.

SCOTUS NEWS

Affirmative action cases up first in November argument calendar

By Amy Howe on Aug. 3 at 2:12 p.m.

Two high-profile affirmative action cases are among the 13 cases scheduled for oral argument in the November session.

CAPITAL CASE

With no recorded dissents, justices allow execution of Alabama man to proceed

By Amy Howe on July 28 at 7:24 p.m.

In a brief order, the court turned down last-minute appeals of Joe Nathan James, paving the way for his execution by lethal injection on Thursday evening.

SCOTUStalk

Art Lien, best known for his watercolor sketches of the Supreme Court (and for his colorful banners on SCOTUSblog), retired with the close of the 2021-2022 term. Amy sits down with Art to discuss his life and retirement, and to get a glimpse of what it was like to capture history where cameras cannot go.

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WHAT WE'RE READING

The morning read for Friday, Aug. 12

By James Romoser on Aug 12, 2022 at 10:38 am

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. To suggest a piece for us to consider, email us at roundup@scotusblog.com.

Here’s the Friday morning read:

Former Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer joins National Constitution Center board as co-chair (Nick Vadala, The Philadelphia Inquirer)
This conservative group helped push a disputed election theory (Hansi Lo Wang, NPR)
‘The Greatest Talker of His Time’ (Justin Driver, The Atlantic)
A Legacy of Equal Justice (Jesse Russell, Law & Liberty)
My Queer Family vs. the Supreme Court (Michelle Tea, The Cut)

WHAT WE'RE READING

The morning read for Thursday, Aug. 11

By James Romoser on Aug 11, 2022 at 9:44 am

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. To suggest a piece for us to consider, email us at roundup@scotusblog.com.

Here’s the Thursday morning read:

The cognitive dissonance of watching the end of Roe unfold online (Melissa Gira Grant, MIT Technology Review)
Supreme Court Refuses to Fast Track Coinbase Arbitration Dispute (Kimberly Robinson & Lydia Wheeler, Bloomberg Law)
Alito’s Call to Arms to Secure Religious Liberty (Linda Greenhouse, The New York Times)
Supreme Court faces new pressure to reconsider racist ‘Insular Cases’ (Rafael Bernal, The Hill)
Elena Kagan’s Disavowal of Textualism Came Way Too Late (Yvette Borja, Balls and Strikes)

WHAT WE'RE READING

The morning read for Wednesday, Aug. 10

By James Romoser on Aug 10, 2022 at 10:22 am

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. To suggest a piece for us to consider, email us at roundup@scotusblog.com.

Here’s the Wednesday morning read:

The Supreme Court Wants to End the Separation of Church and State (Kimberly Wehle, Politico)
Minimalism and Formalism in Dobbs (Eric R. Claeys, Law & Liberty)
The Marble Palace Blog: An Unearthed Cache of Letters From a SCOTUS Secretary Reveals How Unliked Some Justices Were (Tony Mauro, The National Law Journal)
Justice Kagan wrote “Now Congress will have to fix a statute this Court has broken.” (Josh Blackman, The Volokh Conspiracy)
Has the Supreme Court now blessed ‘death panels?’ (Andy Schatz, The CT Mirror)

WHAT WE'RE READING

The morning read for Tuesday, Aug. 9

By James Romoser on Aug 09, 2022 at 10:38 am

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. To suggest a piece for us to consider, email us at roundup@scotusblog.com.

Here’s the Tuesday morning read:

What happens when the Supreme Court is this unpopular? (Ian Millhiser, Vox)
There’s a Lot of Harvard and Yale on the Supreme Court. And That’s OK. (Noah Feldman, Bloomberg)
Justice Clarence Thomas’ America: Straight, Color-Blind, Religious, and Heavily Armed (Eric Segall, Dorf on Law)
State supreme courts could soon decide on abortion, raising stakes of their midterm races (James Bikales & Praveena Somasundaram, The Washington Post)
Maps in Four States Were Ruled Illegal Gerrymanders. They’re Being Used Anyway. (Michael Wines, The New York Times)

WHAT WE'RE READING

The morning read for Monday, Aug. 8

By James Romoser on Aug 08, 2022 at 10:18 am

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. To suggest a piece for us to consider, email us at roundup@scotusblog.com.

Here’s the Monday morning read:

Breyer, in first appearance since Roe v. Wade was overturned, says ‘I’m still an optimist’ (Ariane de Vogue, CNN)
Scalia’s Legacy Lives on in Supreme Court’s Abortion, Gun Cases (Greg Stohr, Bloomberg)
Of course the Supreme Court needs to use history. The question is how. (William Baude, The Washington Post)
The most pro-business Supreme Court ever (Felix Salmon, Axios)
Perspective: After a half-century, the Supreme Court is getting religious liberty right again (Will Haun, Deseret News)

Calendar

Su	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa
	1	2 Houston Community College Sys. v. Wilson (20-804) oral_arguments Badgerow v. Walters (20-1143) oral_arguments	3 New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn. v. Bruen (20-843) oral_arguments	4	5 Conference private_conferences	6
7	8 Orders orders FBI v. Fazaga (20-828) oral_arguments Unicolors, Inc. v. H&M Hennes & Mauritz, L.P. (20-915) oral_arguments	9 United States v. Vaello-Madero (20-303) oral_arguments Ramirez v. Collier (21-5592) oral_arguments	10 Austin v. Reagan National Advertising (20-1029) oral_arguments	11 Veterans Day holidays	12 Conference private_conferences	13
14	15 Orders orders	16	17	18	19 Conference private_conferences	20
21	22 Orders orders Opinions opinions	23	24	25 Thanksgiving Day holidays	26	27
28	29 Becerra v. Empire Health Fund (20-1312) oral_arguments	30 Cummings v. Premier Rehab (20-219) oral_arguments American Hospital Assn. v. Becerra (20-1114) oral_arguments

Su	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa
		1	2 Egbert v. Boule (21-147) oral_arguments	3 Opinions opinions	4 Conference private_conferences Opinions opinions	5
6	7 today_at_the_court On Monday, the court will issue one or more opinions in argued cases from the current term starting at 10 a.m. Orders orders Opinions opinions	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18 Conference private_conferences	19
20	21 Orders orders Morgan V. Sundance, Inc. (21-328) oral_arguments Berger v. North Carolina State Conf. of NAACP (21-248) oral_arguments	22 Golan v. Saada (20-1034) oral_arguments	23 ZF Automotives US, Inc. V. Luxshare, Ltd. (21-401) oral_arguments	24 today_at_the_court On Thursday, the court will issue one or more opinions in argued cases from the current term starting at 10 a.m. Opinions opinions	25 Conference private_conferences	26
27	28 Orders orders Ledure v. Union Pacific Railroad Co. (20-807) oral_arguments Southwest Airlines Co. v. Saxon (21-309) oral_arguments	29 Ledure v. Union Pacific Railroad Co. (20-807) oral_arguments Torres v. Texas Dept. of Public Safety (20-603) oral_arguments	30 Viking River Cruises, Inc. v. Moriana (20-1573) oral_arguments	31 Opinions opinions

Su	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa
					1 Conference private_conferences	2
3	4 Orders orders Opinions opinions	5	6	7	8	9
10	11	12	13	14 Conference private_conferences	15	16
17	18 Orders orders United States v. Washington (21-404) oral_arguments Siegel v. Fitzgerald (21-441) oral_arguments	19 George v. McDonough (21-234) oral_arguments Kemp v. United States (21-5726) oral_arguments	20 Vega v. Tech (21-499) oral_arguments	21 Opinions opinions	22 Conference private_conferences	23
24	25 Orders orders Kennedy v. Bremerton School Dept. (21-418) oral_arguments Nance v. Ward (21-439) oral_arguments	26 Biden v. Texas (21-954) oral_arguments Shoop v. Twyford (21-511) oral_arguments	27 Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta (21-429) oral_arguments	28 Opinions opinions	29 Conference private_conferences	30

Su	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa
			1	2 Conference private_conferences	3	4
5	6 Orders orders Opinions opinions	7	8 Opinions opinions	9 Conference private_conferences	10	11
12	13 Orders orders Opinions opinions	14	15 Opinions opinions	16 Conference private_conferences	17	18
19	20 Juneteenth (observed) holidays	21 Orders orders Opinions opinions	22	23 Conference private_conferences Opinions opinions	24 Opinions opinions	25
26	27 Orders orders Opinions opinions	28	29 Conference private_conferences Opinions opinions	30 Opinions opinions

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