Split Supreme Court blocks first religious charter school in Oklahoma

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

• Supreme Court allows Trump to fire members of independent agency boards — for now (Nina Totenberg, NPR)
• Supreme Court upholds Oklahoma decision, in blow to religious charter schools (Breanne Deppisch, Bill Mears, and Shannon Bream, Fox News)
• ‘Hidden’ Provision in Trump’s Big Bill Could Disarm US Supreme Court (Khaleda Rahman, Newsweek)
• The religious right just suffered a rare setback in the Supreme Court, in Oklahoma v. Drummond (Ian Millhiser, Vox)
• The Major Supreme Court Decisions to Watch This Summer (Laura Mannweiler, U.S. News & World Report)

We’re expecting one or more opinions from the court at 10 a.m. EDT. Join us for the live blog, beginning at 9:30 a.m.

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

• Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Shield DOGE From Releasing Records (Abbie VanSickle, The New York Times)
• Disney suspends Venezuelan workers on Supreme Court ruling (Fabiola Zerpa, Los Angeles Times)
• Vance says Roberts is ‘profoundly wrong’ about judiciary’s role to check executive branch (Kit Maher, CNN)
• Trump Judge Slams Supreme Court ‘Disrespect’ After Ruling (Jenna Sundel, Newsweek)
• Jackson most vocal member on Supreme Court bench: Analysis (Ella Lee and Zach Schonfeld, The Hill)

This article was updated on May 21 at 2:38 p.m.

The Trump administration came to the Supreme Court on Wednesday morning, once again asking the justices to take action on their emergency docket. U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer urged the court to temporarily pause an order by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., that would require the Department of Government Efficiency to provide information in a lawsuit filed under the Freedom of Information Act. Sauer told the justices that requiring DOGE as a “presidential advisory body” to respond to the plaintiffs’ requests, a process known as discovery, “clearly violates the separation of powers” and “will significantly distract” from DOGE’s “mission of identifying and eliminating fraud, waste, and abuse in the federal government.”

Chief Justice John Roberts instructed CREW to file a response to the government’s request by noon on Friday, May 23. 

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

• Supreme Court Orders Maine House to Restore Voting Power to Censured Lawmaker, for Now (Abbie VanSickle, The New York Times)
• What’s next for Venezuelans after Supreme Court allows Trump to revoke protected status?(Daniella Silva, NBC News)
• The Supreme Court’s Last Chance to Rein in Universal Injunctions (Michael A. Fragoso, City Journal)
• A Supreme Court Injustice to a District Judge (Paul G. Cassell, The Wall Street Journal)
• The Supreme Court stands up for democracy — and for an anti-trans lawmaker (Ian Millhiser, Vox)

Coming up: Tomorrow 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 opinions.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday afternoon required the clerk of the Maine House of Representatives to count votes by a Maine lawmaker who was censured for a social media post about a transgender athlete at a high school track meet in that state. In a brief unsigned order, the justices granted a request filed by Laurel Libby, a Republican who represents a district in the southern part of the state, to clear the way for her to vote while her appeal continues in the lower courts and, if necessary, the Supreme Court. 

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented from the court’s ruling. In a five-page opinion, she lamented what she characterized as the “watering down of our Court’s standards for granting emergency relief,” calling it “an unfortunate development.” 

Justice Sonia Sotomayor also indicated, without more, that she would have denied Libby’s request.