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By Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia on May 19 at 12:24 p.m.

Under Monday’s ruling in Patel v. Garland, noncitizens seeking certain forms of discretionary relief under immigration law may be left with no judicial review when the government denies their claims.

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A new security fence flanks the Supreme Court this month. (Phil Pasquini via Shutterstock)

By Amy Howe on May 16 at 1:51 p.m.

In a 6-3 decision along ideological lines, the court ruled that a federal limit on how and when candidates can recoup loans that they make to their own campaigns unconstitutionally burdens political speech.

By John Elwood on May 20 at 9:39 a.m.

A regular round-up of “relisted” petitions. This week: one new relist in a claim from a Black prisoner who argues that three white jurors were racist.

By Amy Howe on May 14 at 8:34 p.m.

Two trade groups want the justices to stop Texas from implementing a law that would curtail the ability of tech companies to control what is said on their platforms.

By Amy Howe on May 16 at 1:59 p.m.

In addition to taking up a pair of new cases, the court also called for the views of the federal government in two others.

Amy sits down with SCOTUSblog’s media editor, Katie Barlow, to discuss the leaked draft in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and the repercussions such an opinion would have on reproductive rights. Plus Amy explains the court’s request for additional briefing in Biden v. Texas and answers listener questions.

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By James Romoser on May 20, 2022 at 9:26 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:

Leaks, Pandemic, and Hot-Button Issues Strain SCOTUS’ Collegiality (Marcia Coyle, The National Law Journal)
Clarence Thomas calls out John Roberts as Supreme Court edges closer to overturning Roe v. Wade (Joan Biskupic, CNN)
Clarence Thomas Is Throwing the Supreme Court’s History Out the Window (Matt Ford, The New Republic)
The Supreme Court leaker must pay (Ilya Shapiro, Fox News)
If Supreme Court lets Texas censor law proceed, internet will be a cesspool. Or not. (Alison Frankel, Reuters)

By James Romoser on May 19, 2022 at 10:41 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:

Was it Ever Really Roberts’ Court? (Adam Feldman, Empirical SCOTUS)
DHS preparing for violence following abortion ruling ((Sophia Cai & Stef W. Kight, Axios)
Texas, 12 states fire back at tech industry in Supreme Court filings (Cat Zakrzewski, The Washington Post)
The Supreme Court’s Next Targets (Adam Harris, The Atlantic)
Pete Williams, Longtime Correspondent Covering Supreme Court And Justice Department, To Depart NBC News In July (Ted Johnson, Deadline)

By James Romoser on May 18, 2022 at 10:29 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 green-lights political corruption — again (Editorial, The Washington Post)
Ted Cruz, the Supreme Court and $10,000 (Editorial, The Wall Street Journal)
The Supreme Court Needs an Ethics Code (Bob Bauer, The Atlantic)
Samuel Alito: One Angry Man (Aziz Huq, Politico)
The Supreme Court’s History of Protecting the Powerful (Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker)

By James Romoser on May 17, 2022 at 8:48 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:

Dividing on Ideological Lines and Breaking Little New Ground in FEC v. Cruz, Supreme Court Strikes Down Another Part of McCain-Feingold law (Rick Hasen, Election Law Blog)
Supreme Court Sides with US in Immigration Dispute Over Review (Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson, Bloomberg Law)
Ketanji Brown Jackson on being a ‘first’ and why she loves ‘Survivor’ (Roxanne Roberts, The Washington Post)
The day could be approaching when Supreme Court rulings are openly defied (Editorial, St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
I defend the First Amendment, but don’t protest outside the Supreme Court justices’ homes (Greta Van Susteren, USA Today)

By James Romoser on May 16, 2022 at 12:46 pm

The Supreme Court on Monday limited the ability of federal courts to review certain factual findings in immigration proceedings that determine whether noncitizens will be deported or will be allowed to remain in the country.

The ruling in Patel v. Garland was 5-4, with Justice Amy Coney Barrett writing for the majority and Justice Neil Gorsuch joining the three liberal justices in dissent.

May 2021

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						1 today_at_the_court On Friday, the justices will meet for their April 30 conference. The court will issue orders from that conference on Monday at 9:30 a.m.
2 today_at_the_court On Friday, the justices will meet for their April 30 conference. The court will issue orders from that conference on Monday at 9:30 a.m.	3 today_at_the_court On Monday, the court released orders from the April 30 conference. The justices did not add any new cases to their merits docket for next term. Orders orders	4 today_at_the_court On Tuesday, the justices heard oral argument in Terry v. United States. Terry v. United States (20-5904) oral_arguments	5	6	7	8
9	10	11	12	13 Conference private_conferences	14 today_at_the_court On Monday, the court released orders from the May 13 conference and opinions in Caniglia v. Strom, Edwards v. Vannoy, BP v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore and CIC Services v. IRS.	15 today_at_the_court On Monday, the court released orders from the May 13 conference and opinions in Caniglia v. Strom, Edwards v. Vannoy, BP v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore and CIC Services v. IRS.
16 today_at_the_court On Monday, the court released orders from the May 13 conference and opinions in Caniglia v. Strom, Edwards v. Vannoy, BP v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore and CIC Services v. IRS.	17 today_at_the_court On Monday, the court released orders from the May 13 conference and opinions in Caniglia v. Strom, Edwards v. Vannoy, BP v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore and CIC Services v. IRS. Orders orders Opinions opinions	18	19	20 Conference private_conferences	21 today_at_the_court On Monday, the court released orders from the May 20 conference, and opinions in United States v. Palomar-Santiago and Guam v. United States.	22 today_at_the_court On Monday, the court released orders from the May 20 conference, and opinions in United States v. Palomar-Santiago and Guam v. United States.
23 today_at_the_court On Monday, the court released orders from the May 20 conference, and opinions in United States v. Palomar-Santiago and Guam v. United States.	24 today_at_the_court On Monday, the court released orders from the May 20 conference, and opinions in United States v. Palomar-Santiago and Guam v. United States. Orders orders Opinions opinions	25	26	27 today_at_the_court On Thursday, the court issued its decision in San Antonio v. Hotels.com. The justices will also meet for their May 27 conference. Conference private_conferences Opinions opinions	28 today_at_the_court On Monday, the court will be closed for Memorial Day. On Tuesday, the court will issue orders from the May 27 conference at 9:30 a.m., followed by opinions in one or more argued cases from the current term starting at 10 a.m.	29 today_at_the_court On Monday, the court will be closed for Memorial Day. On Tuesday, the court will issue orders from the May 27 conference at 9:30 a.m., followed by opinions in one or more argued cases from the current term starting at 10 a.m.
30 today_at_the_court On Monday, the court will be closed for Memorial Day. On Tuesday, the court will issue orders from the May 27 conference at 9:30 a.m., followed by opinions in one or more argued cases from the current term starting at 10 a.m.	31 today_at_the_court On Monday, the court will be closed for Memorial Day. On Tuesday, the court will issue orders from the May 27 conference at 9:30 a.m., followed by opinions in one or more argued cases from the current term starting at 10 a.m. Memorial Day holidays

June 2021

Su	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa
		1 today_at_the_court On Tuesday, the court released orders from the May 27 conference and opinions in Garland v. Dai and United States v. Cooley. Opinions opinions	2	3 today_at_the_court On Thursday, the court issued its decision in Van Buren v. United States. The justices will also meet for their June 3 conference. Conference private_conferences Opinions opinions	4	5
6	7 today_at_the_court On Monday, the court released orders from the June 3 conference and its opinion in Sanchez v. Mayorkas. Orders orders Opinions opinions	8	9	10 today_at_the_court On Thursday, the court issued a decision in Borden v. United States. The justices also met for their June 10 conference. Conference private_conferences Opinions opinions	11	12
13	14 today_at_the_court On Monday, the court released orders from the June 10 conference and opinions in Greer v. United States and Terry v. United States. Orders orders Opinions opinions	15	16	17 today_at_the_court On Thursday, the court released opinions in California v. Texas, Fulton v. Philadelphia and Nestlé USA Inc. v. Doe. Conference private_conferences Opinions opinions	18 Juneteenth holidays	19
20	21 today_at_the_court On Monday, the court released orders from the June 17 conference and opinions in NCAA v. Alston, United States v. Arthrex and Goldman Sachs v. Arkansas Teacher Retirement System. Orders orders Opinions opinions	22	23 today_at_the_court On Wednesday, the court issued opinions in Mahanoy Area School District v. B. L., Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, Lange v. California and Collins v. Yellen. Opinions opinions	24 today_at_the_court On Thursday, the justices will meet for their June 24 conference. Conference private_conferences	25 today_at_the_court On Friday, the court issued opinions in TransUnion v. Ramirez, HollyFrontier Refining v. Renewable Fuels Association and Yellen v. Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation. Opinions opinions	26
27	28 today_at_the_court On Monday, the court released orders from the June 24 conference. The justices added two cases to their merits docket for next term, and issued unsigned summary decisions in Lombardo v. St. Louis and Pakdel v. San Francisco. Orders orders	29 Opinions opinions today_at_the_court On Tuesday, the court released opinions in Minerva Surgical v. Hologic, Johnson v. Guzman Chavez and PennEast Pipeline Co. v. New Jersey. On Thursday, the court has announced that it will release the remaining opinions from the current term.	30 today_at_the_court On Thursday, the court released opinions in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee and Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta. The justices will also meet for conference. The court will issue orders from that conference on Friday at 9:30 a.m.

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	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

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March 2022

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		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

April 2022

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					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

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