Every post published in October 2020, most recent first.
At the end of a busy week dealing with emergency requests on the court’s shadow docket, the justices are meeting Friday for a private conference. It is the first conference at which newly confirmed Justice Amy Coney Barrett will participate.
This article is part of a symposium previewing Fulton v. City of Philadelphia. Helen M. Alvaré is a professor of law at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School.
This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to review, among other things, the Trump administration’s public-charge rule and the vacated death sentences of Dzokhar Tsarnaev, convicted for his role in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.
On Monday, Nov. 2, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service v. Sierra Club — a case that will define the bounds of the deliberative process privilege under the Freedom of Information Act.
This article is part of a symposium previewing Fulton v. City of Philadelphia. Lindsay See is solicitor general of the state of West Virginia, which joined an amicus brief on behalf of 13 states in support of the petitioners.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday afternoon rejected a request by Pennsylvania Republicans to fast-track their challenge to a ruling by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that requires election officials to count mail-in ballots received within three days after Election Day.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday night rejected a request by the Trump campaign and North Carolina Republicans to intervene in a dispute over the deadline for mail-in ballots in North Carolina.
The Supreme Court made key decisions Wednesday in election disputes in two battleground states. The court declined to weigh in before the election on a Republican effort to eliminate a three-day extension of the absentee-ballot deadline in Pennsylvania, and the court also turned down a Republican effort to block a six-day extension of the absentee-ballot deadline in North Carolina.
This article is part of a symposium previewing Fulton v. City of Philadelphia. James A. Campbell is solicitor general of the state of Nebraska. He filed an amicus brief on behalf of Nebraska, Arizona and Ohio in support of the petitioners.
This article is part of a symposium previewing Fulton v. City of Philadelphia. Clare Kindall is the solicitor general for the state of Connecticut, which joined a multi-state amicus brief filed in support of Philadelphia.