Lawyers ask Supreme Court to allow transgender boy to use boys’ bathroom

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

• In rare interviews, federal judges criticize Supreme Court’s handling of Trump cases (Lawrence Hurley, NBC News)
• Justice Amy Coney Barrett says the law isn’t an “opinion poll” as Supreme Court faces longshot bid to revisit same-sex marriage (Melissa Quinn, CBS News)
• Brett Kavanaugh on why Supreme Court rulings can be so cryptic (Josh Gerstein, Politico)
• US Supreme Court poised to resolve clashes over Trump’s power (Jan Wolfe and Andrew Chung, Reuters)
• The Biggest Test for the Supreme Court Yet (Paul Rosenzweig, The Atlantic)

Updated on Sept. 4 at 9:44 p.m.

The federal government on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to temporarily pause a ruling by a federal appeals court that requires the Trump administration to reinstate a commissioner on the Federal Trade Commission whom President Donald Trump fired this spring. In a 30-page filing, U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote that the case is “indistinguishable” from previous disputes in which the court blocked similar efforts to force reinstatement of senior officials. 

Immigration Matters is a recurring series by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández that analyzes the court’s immigration docket, highlighting emerging legal questions about new policy and enforcement practices.

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Kilmar Ábrego García, the citizen of El Salvador who has been made famous by the Trump administration’s efforts to deport him, is fighting hard to remain in the United States – and, perhaps surprisingly, he has the Supreme Court to thank for it. Ábrego García, who is currently being held in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center, is testing the Trump administration’s commitment to seeing him gone permanently from the United States. But the remarkably complex legal contest currently playing out would not have been possible had the justices not ordered federal officials to address his wrongful deportation.

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

• Recent court rulings are holding up some of Trump’s highest-profile moves (Devan Cole, CNN)
• Trump plans to ask Supreme Court to toss E. Jean Carroll’s $5 million abuse and defamation verdict (Michael R. Sisak, AP)
• Appeals court blocks Trump’s use of Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans (Ximena Bustillo, NPR)
• Favorable views of Supreme Court remain near historic low (Joseph Copeland, Pew Research Center)
• Trump Is Trying to Blackmail the Supreme Court (Ankush Khardori, Politico)

The Trump administration on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to weigh in on the president’s authority to impose tariffs under a 1977 law giving him certain emergency powers. The request came five days after a federal appeals court in Washington struck down the majority of the tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump since February in a series of executive orders. Telling the justices that“[t]he stakes in this case could not be higher,” U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer urged the justices to review the ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and to do so on an expedited basis, suggesting that the court hear oral arguments in early November.