The Supreme Court and flag burning: an explainer
President Donald Trump wants to prosecute flag burning, but can he make that happen without violating Supreme Court precedent?
August 2025 Archive
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WHAT WE'RE READING
The morning read for Friday, August 29
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read:
Transgender student’s bathroom case comes to the Supreme Court on the emergency docket
Updated on Aug. 29 at 11:05 a.m. South Carolina asked the Supreme Court to pause an order by a federal appeals court that requires a public school in the state to allow a transgender boy to use the boys’ bathroom while he challenges a state law that requires students to use bathrooms based on their biological sex at birth.
SCOTUS FOCUSExplainers
New Jersey’s long history of trouncing New York at the Supreme Court
I was born and raised in New Jersey, and I live there now (not off of any exit, thank you very much). And, although I resided in the Big Apple for many years, I will always be a Jersey boy.
Louisiana urges Supreme Court to uphold order barring race-based redistricting map
Writing that it “wants out of this abhorrent system of racial discrimination,” Louisiana on Wednesday told the Supreme Court in the case of Louisiana v. Callais to leave in place a ruling by a three-judge federal court that threw out the state’s 2024 congressional map, which created a second majority-Black district.
WHAT WE'RE READING
The morning read for Thursday, August 28
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Thursday morning read:
Courtly Observations
COURTLY OBSERVATIONS
The future of voting rights
Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean for the law, for lawyers and lower courts, and for people’s lives.
WHAT WE'RE READING
The morning read for Wednesday, August 27
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Wednesday morning read:
Trump administration withdraws request to the Supreme Court for it to hear dispute over foreign-aid payment
Updated on Aug. 29 at 6:13 p.m. The Trump administration informed a federal appeals court on Tuesday evening that it has returned to the Supreme Court, seeking to pause an order by a federal district court in Washington, D.C., that requires the federal government to pay billions of dollars in foreign aid that Congress has already allocated.
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Justice Alito files 2024 financial disclosure
Justice Samuel Alito reported reimbursement for just one trip – to speak at a Catholic university’s graduation ceremony in Ohio – in 2024. The news came as part of Alito’s annual financial disclosure, which was filed on Aug. 13 and released on Tuesday morning.