Supreme Court allows DHS to end parole for a half-million noncitizens

Yesterday, May 29, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County.

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

• The Supreme Court May Not Step in and Save Trump’s Tariffs (Ankush Khardori, Politico)
• The Supreme Court Gives Permission to Build Under NEPA (The Editorial Board, The Wall Street Journal)
• ‘Devastating Loss for Our Wild Places’: Supreme Court Attacks Bedrock Environmental Law (Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams)
• SCOTUS effectively pardoned Trump. Now he wants to extend that same immunity to others.(Chris Hayes, MSNBC)
• Old Paths to the Supreme Court (Ed Whelan, Confirmation Tales)

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:

• New immigration case arrives to a Supreme Court that appears wary of Trump’s deportation policies (Joan Biskupic, CNN)
• President Trump Made History Last Week on the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket (Steven Calabresi, The Volokh Conspiracy)
• President Trump Has to Obey the Constitution, But So Does Chief Justice Roberts (Josh Blackman, Civitas Outlook)
• The Myth of the Modern Swing Vote (Adam Feldman, Legalytics)
• Educational Pluralism Delayed (Richard W. Garnett, Law & Liberty)

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

Kent Greenfield is Professor of Law and Dean’s Distinguished Scholar at Boston College. He clerked for Justice Souter during the 1994 Term.

Most of the many lovely tributes penned lately by those who had the good fortune to know David Souter have mentioned his ability to see people around him as genuine human beings worthy of attention. Around the Supreme Court, he afforded respect not only to his colleagues but also to the folks in the lunch room, the messengers, the janitorial staff, and the court police officers. 

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

• Trump asks Supreme Court to remove judge-ordered restrictions on 3rd country deportations (Devin Dwyer, ABC News)
• Supreme Court declines case about T-shirt declaring ‘only two genders’ (Justin Jouvenal, The Washington Post)
• The First Amendment, Front and Center – SCOTUS Today (Stuart M. Gerson, The National Law Review)
• Justices Gorsuch and Thomas Honor the Apache (The New York Sun)
• Supreme Court’s Free Speech v. Paxton Decision Could Protect Kids Online (Clare Morell, Newsweek)

Coming up: Tomorrow, May 29, 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.

This article was updated on May 28 at 10:56 a.m.

The Trump administration on Tuesday afternoon asked the Supreme Court to pause an order by a federal judge in Massachusetts that prohibits the federal government from deporting immigrants to a country that is not specifically identified in their deportation orders unless the government first meets criteria to ensure that the immigrants will not face torture in that country. “These judicially created procedures,” U.S. Solicitor D. John Sauer told the justices, “are currently wreaking havoc on the third-party removal process,” infringing on the executive branch’s power over immigration and disrupting “sensitive diplomatic, foreign-policy, and national-security efforts.”