Wednesday round-up

At AP, Jessica Gresko and Mark Sherman report that, as the Supreme Court prepares to hold arguments by telephone “for the first time in its 230-year history,” attorneys say “the teleconference arguments in 10 cases over six days present a range of challenges … , but also opportunities.” Greg Stohr reports at Bloomberg that “[t]he court said Tuesday it will deviate from its usual questioning practice, which at times resembles a free-for-all, and go in order of seniority when the court convenes Monday for the first of 10 remote arguments.”

Briefly:

• Amy Howe reports for this blog, in a post that first appeared at Howe on the Court, that “[b]y the end of the day yesterday, the Supreme Court had distributed for consideration at Friday’s conference 10 cases that had apparently been on hold for the New York” gun rights case that the court dismissed on Monday as moot, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. City of New York, New York.
• At the Cato Institute’s Cato at Liberty blog, Jay Schweikert notes that the court yesterday “distributed eight different qualified immunity cert petitions for its conference of May 15, 2020,” providing “unmistakable evidence that the Justices are looking closely at the fundamental question of whether qualified immunity itself needs to be reconsidered.”
• At Mother Jones, Ross Choma writes that “[t]he Supreme Court issued a request Monday for more arguments in the fight over whether Donald Trump’s bank and accountant should be required to comply with congressional subpoenas for the president’s personal financial records, adding an odd new wrinkle to the fight—one in which, so far, there is no clear winner.”

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