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Supreme Court takes up cases on transgender athletes

By Kelsey Dallas on July 3 at 11:15 am

On Thursday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear two cases on whether banning transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports violates the Constitution’s equal protection clause or Title IX. The cases are unlikely to be decided before 2026.

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TERM IN REVIEW

The 2024-25 term brought notable wins for the court’s conservative majority – and the Trump administration

By Amy Howe on July 2 at 12:31 pm

Even before the Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration on universal injunctions, the administration’s success in front of the court was one of the major stories of the term. The justices have granted many of the administration’s pleas for emergency relief in recent months, including in cases on removing protected status from some foreign nationals living in the U.S. and the deportation of noncitizens to third-party countries.

EMERGENCY DOCKET

Trump administration urges the court to pause a ruling preventing it from firing Consumer Product Safety Commission members

By Amy Howe on July 2 at 3:45 pm

On Wednesday, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to temporarily stay a district court ruling ordering it to reinstate three members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. According to the government, the district court’s order “has sown chaos and dysfunction” at the CPSC.

TERM IN REVIEW

The Braidwood decision and HHS

By Bradley Joondeph on July 3 at 9:50 am

The Supreme Court rejected a challenge under the Constitution’s appointments clause to a significant component of the Affordable Care Act. As a result, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force’s recommendations – which require health insurers to cover a variety of preventative services, including HIV medication, without any copays or deductibles from insureds – remain legally enforceable, making these services more accessible for most Americans.

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The morning read for Thursday, July 3

By Zachary Shemtob on July 3, 2025

Yesterday, July 2, Amy and I were on the podcast Advisory Opinions. Please check out the episode here.

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

TERM IN REVIEW

Trump v. CASA and the future of the universal injunction

By Mila Sohoni on July 2, 2025

This is part of SCOTUSblog’s term in review series, in which scholars analyze some of the most significant cases of the 2024-25 Supreme Court term.

The best that can be said for Trump v. CASA is that it could have been far worse. Its methodology and conclusions are myopic and wrong, and it is especially unwelcome during a period in which each passing day seems to bring new incursions by the executive branch upon individual rights, the separation of powers, federalism, and the rule of law. The court held that federal courts may not give universal injunctions, which are orders that block the application of a law or an executive branch action to anyone who might be harmed by it, not just its application to the plaintiffs. But despite the court’s seemingly categorical rejection of the universal injunction, the ironic possibility exists that the decision will turn out to be, as Justice Samuel Alito put it, essentially “academic.”  

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The morning read for Wednesday, July 2

By Zachary Shemtob on July 2, 2025
COURTLY OBSERVATIONS

By the numbers

By Erwin Chemerinsky on July 1, 2025

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.

As someone who grew up (and continues to be) obsessed with baseball statistics, I think that a great deal can be learned from looking at the numbers concerning the Supreme Court (and SCOTUSblog does as well, as reflected in its 2024-25 Stat Pack). And now that the court has completed issuing decisions other than emergency matters, it is possible to study the statistics for October Term 2024.

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WHAT WE’RE READING

The morning read for Tuesday, July 1

By Zachary Shemtob on July 1, 2025

If you haven’t already, please check out our SCOTUSblog Stat Pack for the 2024-25 term, which can be found here.

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