Petitions Archive

Whether the Supreme Court should stay a district court ruling preventing the president from firing a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.

Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' creation of a novel and unforeseeable procedural bar in its interpretation of Texas Criminal Code Article 11.071, Section 5, precludes review of petitioner's Atkins claim under federal law; and (2) whether a state-created procedural rule may bar review of an Atkins claim consistent with due process where the state has conceded, as here, that the individual meets the criteria for intellectually disability and the procedural gateway necessary to allow for a merits review.

Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)’s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment, either facially or as applied to the petitioner.

Whether Stinson v. United States still correctly states the rule for deference that courts must give the Commentary of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines.

Whether venue is proper in a district where no offense conduct took place, so long as the statute’s intent element “contemplates” effects that could occur there.

Whether Bethel School District v. Fraser permits schools to censor nondisruptive political speech that is not plainly profane or lewd.

Whether a downstream purchaser’s liability for mishandling nuclear material that the purchaser obtained for private benefit, but that was originally produced more than a decade earlier under a government contract with another party, is subject to indemnification by the United States under the original government contract because it qualifies as “public liability arising out of or in connection with the contractual activity” under 42 U.S.C. 2210(d).

(1) Whether the court of appeals’ order departed from this court’s instructions and the separation-of-powers principles that this court articulated in Cheney v. United States District Court; and (2) whether a court may order broad discovery against an Executive Office advisory body—potentially providing much information sought on the merits of a plaintiff’s FOIA claims—to determine whether FOIA’s disclosure requirements apply in the first place.

Whether the Trump administration can end the Temporary Protected Status program for Haitian nationals.

Whether the Trump administration can end the Temporary Protected Status program for Syrian nationals.