Announcement of opinions for Thursday, May 22

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)

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.

A former clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia and then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh was tapped on Thursday to defend a lower court ruling before the Supreme Court this fall in a Georgia man’s challenge to the federal government’s efforts to collect restitution from him. 

The Supreme Court appointed John Bash, a former assistant to the U.S. solicitor general who has argued 10 cases in the court to argue Ellingburg v. United States as a “friend of the court” in support of the judgment of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit — which ruled for the government — because the federal government has opted not to defend that court’s reasoning. 

This article is part of a series on the legacy and jurisprudence of the late Justice David Souter. 

Charles Barzun is a Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, where he teaches Constitutional Law, Evidence, Jurisprudence, and Torts. He is currently working on a book on the American common law tradition. 

I met Justice Souter only once, in the summer of 2019. He agreed to meet with me to discuss the ideas in a law review article I had written about his judicial philosophy. When I arrived to meet him for lunch at a restaurant in Concord, N.H., he was already there, waiting for me. It turned out we were the restaurant’s only customers that afternoon. Our conversation lasted about two and a half hours, touching on everything from Souter’s time as a New Hampshire trial judge to the philosophy of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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

• Supreme Court allows Trump to revoke protected status for thousands of Venezuelans (Lawrence Hurley, NBC News)
• US Supreme Court may broaden religious rights in looming rulings (John Kruzel, Reuters)
• Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Comes Under MAGA Fire (Sonam Sheth, Newsweek)
• Trump Is Tired of Courts Telling Him He’s Breaking the Law (Adam Serwer, The Atlantic)
• Ed Sheeran Tells U.S. Supreme Court to Reject ‘Let’s Get It On’ Copyright Case Over ‘Thinking Out Loud’ (Bill Donahue, billboard)

Coming up: On Thursday, May 22, 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.