Supreme Court allows Trump to ban transgender people from military

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

• Called out by Trump for how he leads the Supreme Court, John Roberts is fine keeping a low profile (Maureen Groppe, USA Today)
• Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts Sends New Message to Trump (Anna Commander, Newsweek)
• One of the most controversial executive orders will shortly land at SCOTUS (The Economist)
• C-SPAN asks the Supreme Court to televise arguments for Trump’s birthright citizenship case (Amanda Friedman, Politico)
• The Universal Injunction Cases, Part 1: The Origins Debate (Samuel Bray, Divided Argument)

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

• Supreme Court Lets Trump Enforce Transgender Troop Ban as Cases Proceed (Adam Liptak, The New York Times)
• In win for Trump, Supreme Court allows ban on transgender troops to take effect (Maureen Groppe, USA Today)
• Trump’s Deportees to El Salvador Are Now “Ghosts” in U.S. Courts (Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker)
• Shadow Docket Requests Threaten to Delay High Court Opinions (Lydia Wheeler & Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson, Bloomberg Law)
• Trump Says ‘I Don’t Know’ When Asked if He Must Uphold the Constitution (Jess Bravin, The Wall Street Journal)

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

• Trump administration asks judge to toss suit restricting access to abortion medication (Lindsay Whitehurst & Rebecca Boone, The Associated Press)
• Trump to continue Biden’s court defense of abortion drug mifepristone (Daniel Wiessner, Reuters)
• What the Constitution, Supreme Court say about ‘due process’ for Trump deportees (Devin Dwyer, ABC News)
• An anti-trans lawmaker brings a Supreme Court case that she absolutely must win (Ian Millhiser, Vox)
• Trump’s Justice Department Is Squandering Its Biggest Asset (Ankush Khardori, Politico)

U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer told the justices on Monday afternoon that Congress has given the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services the power to appoint members of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, while the lawyer for a group of individuals and small businesses challenging the constitutionality of that group’s structure countered that Congress failed to do so. The arguments came in relatively rare supplemental briefs filed at the justices’ request two weeks after the oral arguments in Kennedy v. Braidwood Management. 

Under the Affordable Care Act, the task force – an independent panel of experts – makes recommendations about which “preventive health services” private insurers and group health plans must cover at no additional cost to the patient. One such recommendation, made in June 2019, was for the HIV prevention medicine pre-exposure prophylaxis, known as PrEP.

The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Trump administration to weigh in on a dispute between Exxon Mobil and three Cuban-owned companies stemming from the Cuban government’s seizure of property more than a half-century ago. The call for the views of the U.S. solicitor general in Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Corporation Cimex came as part of a list of orders from the justices’ private conference on Friday, May 1. 

The dispute dates back to 1960, when the Cuban government, led by Fidel Castro, confiscated all of the property owned by the Cuban-based subsidiaries of Exxon, then known as Standard Oil, including a refinery and over 100 service stations. 

Nine years later, a commission created by Congress certified that Standard Oil had lost more than $71 million – more than $600 million in today’s dollars.