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Trump attends birthright citizenship argument
As soon as President Donald Trump mentioned attending argument in the birthright citizenship case in Trump v. Barbara today, some Supreme Court reporters were dubious.
View from the Court
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View from the Court
Watching tariffs come down
Today is the first time the court is taking the bench since its nearly four-week mid-winter recess. It is a day for bar admissions and possible opinions before the February sitting starts in earnest on Monday. The tariff case is hanging in the air.
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The full Fed battle
It is a crisply cold winter morning in Washington as people filed into the Supreme Court for Trump v. Cook, about President Donald Trump’s effort to remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook.
No tariff opinion
“These aren’t the droids you’re looking for.” A couple of years ago, the Supreme Court shifted the one “non-argument day” it holds for almost every argument session sitting to the Friday before the session starts, instead of the Monday after the two weeks of arguments.
Trump’s tariffs: from dollars to donuts
Security around the U.S. Supreme Court building is amped up a bit this morning, almost as if somebody really important was planning to attend.
The court opens for business despite a federal shutdown
Just as the Supreme Court tends to stay open when a two-inch snowfall in Washington terrorizes the snowflakes of the federal Office of Personnel Management and closes the executive branch, the budget impasse that has shut down much of the federal government has not kept the court from opening its new term on schedule today.
Closing the book on the term
It was a bit of a shock on Thursday when Chief Justice John Roberts announced at the end of the session that the court would next sit on Friday and “at that time we will announce all remaining opinions ready during this term of the Court.” With six significant cases outstanding, that would make for one heckuva final day, everyone seemed to agree.
Just the Fax
It’s a sweetly mild morning here on this day of the summer solstice. Outside the court, staff members of the Architect of the Capitol, who tend to the grounds not only of Congress but the court, are planting summer flowers on the north gardens of the court building.
Watching environmental law get eclipsed by Skrmetti
The courtroom is quite full today as we near the end of the term. A key reason for that is this is the last day for in-person admissions to the Supreme Court Bar.
A peek at the merits
Today the court will hear arguments in Trump v. CASA and its consolidated cases, plucked from the emergency docket for oral arguments about nationwide injunctions and the president’s executive order on birthright citizenship.
Inside the Supreme Court arguments on transgender care
The biggest case of the term, so far, is being argued this morning and there is anticipation in the chilly Washington air. Demonstrators on each side of United States v. Skrmetti, the dispute over access to puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender teenagers, have arrived early in front of the court building and will still be there when the argument is finished after noon.
A dramatic last day in the courtroom
As I reach the courtroom on Monday, Michael Dreeben of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office has already taken a seat in the bar section. He can be pretty sure he will get the opinion in Trump v. United States today. Smith, who was present for oral arguments in late April, is not here today.