Supreme Court pauses district court order preventing immigrants from being deported to third-party countries

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

• What cases are left on the Supreme Court’s emergency docket? Here’s a look (Mark Sherman, AP)
• Supreme Court won’t weigh Louisiana direct sales ban challenged by Tesla (Ella Lee, The Hill)
• Supreme Court rebuffs effort by R. Kelly to overturn conviction (John Fritze, CNN)
• Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Done Playing Nice With Neil Gorsuch (Mark Joseph Stern, Slate)
• Do you think the Supreme Court is partisan? Well you’re wrong. (Dace Potas, USA Today)

Coming up: On Thursday, June 26, 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 Monday morning read:

• Supreme Court ruling scrambles battle for transgender care (Brooke Migdon, The Hill)
• Supreme Court Predictions (Ed Whelan, National Review)
• Court blocks Louisiana law requiring schools to post Ten Commandments in classrooms (The Associated Press, NPR)
• Why Is Elena Kagan Suddenly Siding With the Conservatives? (Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern, Slate)
• Killing Us Softly With Its Words; Maybe a little understatement from the Supreme Court is OK (Reynolds Holding, Better Judgment)

Coming up: On Thursday, June 26, 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 Friday, June 20, the Supreme Court also released the following opinions:

— In Esteras v. United States, the justices considered whether courts weighing a revocation of supervised release should address certain sentencing factors, such as retribution, that are not listed in the law concerning supervised release but that are part of the law governing sentencing. 

The Supreme Court on Friday shut down efforts by a retired Florida firefighter to sue her former employer under the Americans with Disabilities Act. By a vote of 8-1, the justices ruled that Karyn Stanley, who was forced to retire in 2018 because of Parkinson’s disease, cannot challenge the termination of her health insurance after she retired.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the lone dissenter, writing that the court’s decision “renders meaningless” the protections provided in the ADA “for disabled workers’ retirement benefits just when those protections matter most.”

The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that a challenge by retailers to the Food and Drug Administration’s denial of an application by R.J. Reynolds Vapor to market e-cigarettes can go forward in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, based in Louisiana. By a vote of 7-2, the justices ruled that retailers in Texas and Mississippi that sell RJR Vapor’s e-cigarette products have a legal right to seek judicial review of the FDA’s denial. R.J. Reynolds Vapor, which is based in North Carolina, joined that lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, where the retailers are based.

Under the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, “any person adversely affected” by the FDA’s denial of a request to market a new tobacco product can “file a petition for judicial review” of that denial “with the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia or for the circuit in which such person resides or has their principal place of business.” For RJR Vapor, this would mean filing its petition in either the D.C. Circuit or in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, which includes North Carolina. But that court of appeals had already turned down other challenges to the FDA’s rejections of applications to sell e-cigarette products, so RJR Vapor went instead to the 5th Circuit, joined by Avail Vapor, a Texas retailer that sells its products, and by a trade association for gas stations and convenience stores in Mississippi that sell its products.