Reporters call for live-streaming opinion announcements

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

• 3 Supreme Court Cases To Watch in June 2025 (Damon Root, Reason)
• Southern Baptists Endorse Effort to Overturn Same-Sex Marriage (Ruth Graham, The New York Times)
• Opinion: Another unanimous win for religious freedom at the Supreme Court (William C. Duncan, Deseret News)
• Ex-Supreme Court Justice’s Brother to Oversee LA Riot Lawsuit Against Trump (Sonam Sheth, Newsweek)
• DOGE’s Supreme Court victory is a huge loss for Americans’ privacy (Kimberly Wehle, The Hill)

Coming up: Tomorrow, June 12, 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).

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

• Oklahoma inmate Richard Glossip to face new murder trial but without death penalty (Erik Ortiz, NBC News)
• Justice Jackson warns the Supreme Court is manipulating the rules to benefit Trump (Ian Millhiser, Vox)
• The Supreme Court Is Divided in More Ways Than You’d Think (J. Joel Alicea, The New York Times)
• Five Supreme Court Justices recused from the same case, showing both progress and work still to be done (Cynthia Brown, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington)
• The Supreme Court Just Gave DOGE the Keys to the Kingdom (Noah Feldman, Bloomberg)

Coming up: On Thursday, June 12, 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 April 23, 2025, United States Deputy Solicitor General Edwin S. Kneedler made his 160th argument before the Supreme Court, following which he will be retiring. This article is one in a series of tributes from Mr. Kneedler’s former colleagues on his remarkable career.

Ed Kneedler retires as the most prolific Supreme Court advocate in modern history. One hundred sixty arguments – a truly staggering number. But Ed’s legacy is far more than a number. Ed distinguished himself at the podium not just by his poise and steady defense of the government’s interests, but by his candor to the court. Ed embodies the ideal that the responsibility of the government lawyer is not to win the case at any cost, but to do justice by best serving the interests of the people – and the court. That means never overselling an argument or fact and even being able to acknowledge a weakness in your position. Ed taught that lesson to me, as he did to scores of other lawyers who had the privilege of serving with him. 

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

• Religion cases spark both unanimity and division at Supreme Court (Zach Schonfeld, The Hill)
• Who’s a Party to a Case? Supreme Court Punts, for Now (Dan McLaughlin, National Review)
• How a Supreme Court decision backing the NRA is thwarting Trump’s retribution campaign (Devan Cole, CNN)
• Justice Jackson Just Helped Reset the D.E.I. Debate (David French, The New York Times)
• He was at the center of a Supreme Court case that changed gay marriage. Now, he’s worried. (Zach Wichter, USA Today)

Coming up: On Thursday, June 12, 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).

The Supreme Court on Friday evening released orders from the justices’ private conference on Thursday. The justices added four new cases, involving issues such as federal sentencing, the death penalty, and civil procedure, to their docket for the 2025-26 term. 

The court had originally been scheduled to release the list of orders on Monday morning at 9:30 a.m. But after a software malfunction resulted in email notifications regarding individual cases included on the order list being sent prematurely to lawyers involved in those cases, the court opted to release the entire list shortly after 6 p.m. on Friday.