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Justices asked to weigh in again on “mixed” questions in immigration appeals

Court declines to halt execution of Texas man who said juror was racist

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Plea bargaining and a high-profile separation-of-powers case

Justices asked to weigh in again on “mixed” questions in immigration appeals

Court declines to halt execution of Texas man who said juror was racist

The morning read for Wednesday, Feb. 15

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By Amy Howe on Feb. 13 at 6:50 p.m.

On Feb. 28, the justices will hear arguments on the legality of President Joe Biden’s $400 billion plan to cancel some federal student-loan debt.

Two men, the president and education secretary, talk in the Oval Office.

President Joe Biden meets with Education Secretary Miguel Cardona in August 2022, before delivering remarks on the student-loan forgiveness plan. (Adam Schultz via The White House)

By John Elwood on Feb. 15 at 1:07 p.m.

A regular round-up of “relisted” petitions. This week: a decades-old suit against Chevron resurfaces in a dispute over an alleged violation of the appointments clause.

By Kalvis Golde on Feb. 10 at 2:58 p.m.

A weekly look at new and notable petitions seeking Supreme Court review. This week: judicial review of deportation decisions.

By Ellena Erskine on Feb. 9 at 10:16 a.m.

The justices denied the final appeal of John Balentine in a brief, unsigned order. He was executed by lethal injection Wednesday night.

In another edition of our series of interviews with Supreme Court advocates, Amy sits down with Daniel Geyser, head of the Supreme Court practice at Haynes Boone. Geyser has argued 15 cases before the court, including two this term.

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By SCOTUSblog on Feb 15, 2023 at 10:02 am

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

Why Is Affirmative Action in Peril? One Man’s Decision. (Emily Bazelon, The New York Times)
How the Supreme Court turned America into a casino (Charles Lane, The Washington Post)
The Supreme Court Will Decide the Line Between Free Speech and Violent Threats (Matt Ford, The New Republic)
Pro-ISIS content at heart of Section 230 Supreme Court arguments (Zach Schonfeld, The Hill)
A diverse Supreme Court grapples with affirmative action, with its justices of color split sharply on the meaning of ‘equal protection’ (Miguel Schor & Erin Lain, The Conversation)

By SCOTUSblog on Feb 14, 2023 at 10:17 am

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

Two Decisions Down and Fifty-Eight to Go (Adam Feldman, Empirical SCOTUS)
Ethics Code Wouldn’t Fix Supreme Court’s Legitimacy Crisis (Noah Feldman, Bloomberg)
The Supreme Court showdown over Biden’s student debt relief program, explained (Ian Millhiser, Vox)
ISIS, YouTube and Section 230 at the Supreme Court (Editorial, The Wall Street Journal)
Study: The Supreme Court Is Even More Elitist Than You Thought (Yvette Borja, Balls and Strikes)

By SCOTUSblog on Feb 13, 2023 at 10:54 am

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

Alito, Kagan Top Justices in Supreme Court Recusal ‘Black Box’ (John Crawley & Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson, Bloomberg Law)
Trump’s Supreme Court Picks Are Not Quite What You Think (David Lat & Zachary B. Shemtob, The New York Times)
The Supreme Court thinks it’s special. It’s not. (Chris Geidner, MSNBC)
The Second Amendment’s Legal Landscape Is Getting Weirder (Matt Ford, The New Republic)
Section 230, Big Tech, and the Court (Steve Vladeck, One First)

By SCOTUSblog on Feb 10, 2023 at 10:51 am

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

Supreme Court Weighs Ethics Code as Critics Push for Change (Adam Liptak, The New York Times)
How Online Speech Is Moderated in the US (Emily Birnbaum & Greg Stohr, Bloomberg)
The latest free speech battle from Colorado going before the US Supreme Court will test the state’s stalking laws (Allison Sherry, CPR News)
More Pork! And the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (David Post, The Volokh Conspiracy)
Appeals court ruling says alleged domestic abusers have a constitutional right to keep their guns (Roxanna Asgarian, The Texas Tribune)

By SCOTUSblog on Feb 09, 2023 at 10:39 am

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

Supreme Court justices discussed, but did not agree on, code of conduct (Robert Barnes & Ann E. Marimow, The Washington Post)
Supreme Court justices face new pressure to adopt code of conduct (Lawrence Hurley, NBC News)
Analysis: How a Supreme Court ruling led to the overturning of a guns and domestic violence law (Marcia Coyle, PBS News Hour)
Wealth: The Last Path to Diversity at College After SCOTUS Strikes Down Affirmative Action (Peter Dreier, Richard D. Kahlenberg, & Melvin L. Oliver, Slate)
Supreme Court might have easy outs on elections, immigration (Mark Sherman & Jessica Gresko, Associated Press)

February 2022

March 2022

Su	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa
		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

Su	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa
					1	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

May 2022

June 2022

Su	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa
			1	2 Conference private_conferences	3	4
5	6 Orders orders Opinions opinions	7	8 Opinions opinions	9 Conference private_conferences	10	11
12	13 Orders orders Opinions opinions	14	15 Opinions opinions	16 Conference private_conferences	17	18
19	20 Juneteenth (observed) holidays	21 Orders orders Opinions opinions	22	23 Conference private_conferences Opinions opinions	24 Opinions opinions	25
26	27 Orders orders Opinions opinions	28	29 Conference private_conferences Opinions opinions	30 Opinions opinions

July 2022

August 2022

September 2022

October 2022

November 2022

Su	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa
		1	2 Bittner v. United States (21-1195) oral_arguments	3	4 Conference private_conferences	5
6	7 Orders orders Axon Enterprise v. FTC (21-86) oral_arguments SEC v. Cochran (21-1239) oral_arguments	8 Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co. (21-1168) oral_arguments Health and Hospital Corp. v. Talevski (21-806) oral_arguments	9 Haaland v. Brackeen (21-376) oral_arguments	10 Conference private_conferences	11 Veterans Day holidays	12
13	14 Orders orders	15	16	17	18 Conference private_conferences	19
20	21 Orders orders	22	23	24 Thanksgiving Day holidays	25	26
27	28 Percoco v. United States (21-1158) oral_arguments Ciminelli v. United States (21-1170) oral_arguments	29 United States v. Texas (22-58) oral_arguments	30 Wilkins v. United States (21-1164) oral_arguments

December 2022

January 2023

Su	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa
1	2 New Year's Day (observed) holidays	3	4	5	6 Conference private_conferences	7
8	9 In re Grand Jury (21-1397) oral_arguments The Ohio Adjutant General’s Department v. Federal Labor Relations Authority (21-1454) oral_arguments Orders orders	10 Glacier Northwest, Inc. v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters (21-1449) oral_arguments	11 Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Centro de Periodismo Investigativo, Inc. (22-96) oral_arguments	12	13 Conference private_conferences	14
15	16 Martin Luther King Jr. Day holidays	17 Santos-Zacaria v. Garland (21-1436) oral_arguments Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. v. United States (21-1450) oral_arguments Orders orders	18 Perez v. Sturgis Public Schools (21-887) oral_arguments	19	20 Conference private_conferences	21
22	23 Orders orders Opinions opinions	24	25	26	27	28
29	30	31

February 2023

March 2023

Su	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa
			1	2	3 Conference private_conferences	4
5	6 Orders orders	7	8	9	10	11
12	13	14	15	16	17 Conference private_conferences	18
19	20 Orders orders Arizona v. Navajo Nation (21-1484) oral_arguments	21 Abitron Austria GmbH v. Hetronic Int’l, Inc. (21-1043) oral_arguments Coinbase, Inc. v. Bielski (22-105) oral_arguments	22 Jack Daniel’s Properties v. Vip Products (22-148) oral_arguments	23	24 Conference private_conferences	25
26	27 Orders orders Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi (21-757) oral_arguments United States v. Hansen (22-179) oral_arguments	28 Smith v. United States (21-1576) oral_arguments Lora v. United States (22-49) oral_arguments	29 Samia v. United States (22-196) oral_arguments Polselli v. IRS (21-1599) oral_arguments	30	31 Conference private_conferences

April 2023

May 2023

June 2023

18
Conference
private_conferences

21
President's Day
holidays

22
Orders
orders
Ysleta del sur Pueblo v. Texas (20-493)
oral_arguments
Denezpi v. United States (20-7622)
oral_arguments

23
Arizona v. San Francisco (20-1775)
oral_arguments

24
Opinions
opinions

25
Conference
private_conferences

28
West Virginia v. EPA (20-1530)
oral_arguments