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The justices added one case to their merits docket on Friday: FNU [First Name Unknown] Tanzin v. Tanvir, which asks whether the Religious Freedom Restoration Act allows lawsuits for money damages against individual federal employees. Amy Howe covers the grant for this blog, in a post that first appeared at Howe on the Court. Jess Bravin reports for The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) that the court will β€œdecide whether four Muslim men can seek monetary damages from FBI agents who they claim put them on the no-fly list because they wouldn’t serve as informers against other Muslims.”

Briefly:

  • Amy Howe reports for this blog that after β€œJustice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was admitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore on Friday night” with β€œ’chills and fever,’” β€œ[t]he Supreme Court’s Public Information Office reported on Sunday afternoon that Ginsburg had been discharged from the hospital; she is β€œ’home and doing well.’”
  • In an op-ed for The Washington Post (subscription required) adapted from her new book, Ruth Marcus recounts how, [i]n the last stage of the confirmation battle, as at the start, [Supreme Court nominee then-Judge Brett] Kavanaugh’s fate was largely in the hands of just two senators, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.”
  • Subscript Law offers a graphic explainer of the two cases at the Supreme Court involving subpoenas for President Donald Trump’s financial records.
  • In the latest episode of Bloomberg Law’s Cases and Controversies podcast, β€œconstitutional law professor Josh Blackman discusses the Second Amendment’s second-class status as well as how the fight over a procedural issueβ€”mootnessβ€”has drawn the ire of liberal senators,” and β€œchat[s] about the terrible process of SCOTUS line standing.”

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Recommended Citation: Edith Roberts, Monday round-up, SCOTUSblog (Nov. 25, 2019, 6:45 AM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2019/11/monday-round-up-463/