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BP v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
Can the oil company defendants get the climate change case against them removed to federal court?
Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski
Can Uzuegbunam get nominal relief from his college for restrictive speech policies that the college now removed?
Trump v. New York
Can the Trump administration re-tabulate the census count before determining House apportionment?
Carney v. Adams
Delaware limits positions on several high courts to the two major political parties. Do the limits violate an Independent’s First Amendment rights to free association?
Tanzin v. Tanvir
Can Tanvir and co. get money damages from the federal officers who tried to convince them to be spies?
Facebook v. Duguid
Does the law prohibiting auto-calls cover a device without a random or sequential number generator?
Essential SCOTUS Live Feed
Unidentified gunmen killed two female judges from Afghanistan’s Supreme Court, police said, adding to a wave of assassinations in Kabul and other cities while government and Taliban representatives have been holding peace talks in Qatar https://reut.rs/2LSJfsd
Gunmen kill two female Supreme Court judges in Afghanistan: police http://reut.rs/2KmhhEM
U.S. Supreme Court lifts nationwide injunction that has prevented the Trump admin. from enforcing a rule to regulate a pill commonly used in medication abortions, leading the rule to now be enforceable. https://on.msnbc.com/2LY7XaC
Unknown gunmen shot and killed two female judges in Kabul as they traveled to work. Police say no one has claimed responsibility for the early-morning ambush that also saw their driver wounded https://reut.rs/2LSJfsd
Gunmen kill two female Supreme Court judges in Afghanistan: police http://reut.rs/3bM48jz
Vice President-elect Harris will be sworn in by Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor, according to an official with President-elect Biden's transition team. https://nbcnews.to/3oRrF6F
Vice President-elect Harris will be sworn in by Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor, according to an official with the President-elect Joe Biden's transition team. https://on.msnbc.com/3qrRVF4
Vice President-elect Harris will be sworn in by Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor, according to an official with the President-elect Joe Biden's transition team. https://nbcnews.to/2LHBMwr
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will be sworn in on Wednesday by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, a ceremony in which the first woman of color to become vice president will take her oath from the first woman of color to sit on the Supreme Court. https://nyti.ms/38Qmuyd
The liberal justices of the Supreme Court spent Trump's last full week in office battling his administration's long-term objective to execute 13 federal death row inmates in six months https://cnn.it/3oSteRA
U.S. Supreme Court lifts nationwide injunction that has prevented the Trump admin. from enforcing a rule to regulate a pill commonly used in medication abortions, leading the rule to now be enforceable. https://on.msnbc.com/35Mbm3i
Dustin Higgs was executed at 1:23 AM, two hours after a majority of the Supreme Court, over sharp dissents, cleared the way. The court relied on a rarely used procedure to issue a decision before an appeals court could weigh in.
Our story on the decision: https://www.scotusblog.com/2021/01/over-sharp-dissents-court-intervenes-to-allow-federal-government-to-execute-13th-person-in-six-months/
The U.S. carried out the final execution of President Trump’s term, the 13th since July and the third this week. https://www.wsj.com/articles/supreme-court-approves-last-execution-of-president-trumps-term-11610770914
BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows federal government to proceed with the execution of #DustinHiggs tonight, reversing lower courts that had put the execution on hold. Breyer, Sotomayor & Kagan dissent.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/20-927_i42k.pdf#page=5
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