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Chief Justice Roberts has issued an administrative stay in the case of Catherine Herridge, the former Fox reporter facing an $800 per day fine for refusing to disclose her source for stories published in 2017. Response brief due 7/1.
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Everything you need to know about today's immigration decisions, with @jfritze: cnn.com/2026/06/25/politics/…
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"But I do not think the American people have issues with that. To the contrary, I think they do want their tax dollars spent on things like that." - Acting AG Todd Blanche in response to my question about taxpayer concerns about this $1.8B "Anti-Weaponization Fund." @TheSourceCNN
Reply brief lands in the Virginia redistricting application pending at SCOTUS. "Time grows short, but it is not yet too late." Applicants brush off comments from the governor this week that the state will proceed under the old map. supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/2…
This was denied a few minutes later. No noted dissents. cnn.com/2026/05/15/politics/…
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@steve_vladeck rebuts Justice Amy Coney Barrett's claim that the media makes #SCOTUS look more partisan through post hoc tinkering with which cases are big ones
open.substack.com/pub/stevev…
Chief Justice Roberts makes a rare interruption of oral arguments to announce an impending flyover of planes. Says he didn't want people to be alarmed. Jokes: "I don't know why they didn’t check with me." Justice Barrett jokes she'll try to get her questions out before the noise.
Sketches from inside the Supreme Court today as President Donald Trump attended the birthright citizenship arguments: cnn.com/2026/04/01/politics/…
"Just out of curiosity, do you think we should ask Claude to decide this case?" Justice Alito jokes with Adam Unikowsky, who has been a proponent of AI in the law. "No," Unikowsky responds. "I adhere to the wise judgment of this court."
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Trump gets another shot to try to move the criminal hush money case into federal court. Second Circuit appeals court judges send the case back to the district judge to reconsider. With @jfritze cnn.com/2025/11/06/politics/…
Justice Amy Coney Barrett defends overturning Roe v. Wade and reveals Supreme Court dynamics in new book: cnn.com/2025/09/02/politics/…
There's a lot of "Humphrey’s Executor" in this Lisa Cook complaint. Here's some background on that case: cnn.com/2025/08/17/politics/…
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Fed Governor Lisa Cook files lawsuit over President Trump's attempt to fire her.
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NEW: Louisiana has filed its supplemental SCOTUS brief in the Louisiana congressional redistricting case on the constitutionality of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/2…
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Justices Sotomayor and Kagan lead pack with 5 majority opinions each. CJ Roberts and Kavanaugh have only 3. The rest have 4 a piece. (And there have been 7 Per curiam opinions.)
Trump has privately complained that his Supreme Court nominees -- Barrett, particular -- have not sufficiently stood behind his agenda, according to multiple sources. cnn.com/2025/06/03/politics/…
Latest briefing at SCOTUS (in the probationary firings case) signed by newly confirmed solicitor general D. John Sauer.
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Trump can’t end birthright citizenship, appeals court says, setting up Supreme Court showdown cnn.com/2025/02/19/politics/…
