Kelsey Reichmann
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Kagan on caseload: "We have a more than ordinary emergency caseload. I would say we have about an ordinary, regular docket." She notes a "cottage industry" explaining the court's significant decrease in the number of argued cases since the 1980s
Kagan jokes about shadow docket terminology "We call it the emergency docket. Some of us call it the interim docket. It's a terminology nightmare. I call it the emergency docket"
On security concerns Barrett tells a personal story about wearing a bulletproof vest and confirmed reports about a swatting attempt at her home more recently "I didn't expect that performing this service was going to put me in the position of explaining to my children what a bulletproof vest was"
Kagan begins testimony with a personal note on Graham's passing "I vividly remember because he was a vivid person, the conversation that we had in his office prior to my hearing, where he got to know me."
Kagan and Barrett are on Capitol Hill this morning to testify about the court's budget
Appears to be the sports section of today’s WaPo in case anyone was curious
New: Trump files petition for rehearing at SCOTUS The justices rejected Trump's request to review E. Jean Carroll's civil case against him last month www.courthousenews.com/trump-denied...
NEWS: Supreme Court DENIES emergency appeal from Texas students & internet groups asking to pause the Lone Star State’s age verification law to download mobile apps
Just so we're clear, only 5 justices upheld citizenship rights for all born on U.S. soil under the 14th Amendment Kavanaugh's concurrence only applied to the federal statute www.courthousenews.com/supreme-cour...
Thomas' dissent dwarfed the majority opinion upholding birthright citizenship Roberts' majority was 26 pages. Thomas' dissent was 91 pages www.courthousenews.com/supreme-cour...
Breaking: Supreme Court agrees to hear challenge to assault weapons ban The justices have sat on a series of cert petitions challenging laws in various states for nearly a year
BREAKING: Supreme Court rules against Trump on birthright citizenship, holding that the EO limiting right for for children of certain immigrants does not comply with the 14th Amendment
Breaking: Supreme Court sides with GOP on campaign finance case, holding that coordinated party expenditures violate 1A
Breaking: Supreme Court rules for GOP states with anti-trans sports bans, upholding laws under Title IX and equal protection clause
A visual of how the opinions were handed to reporters Maybe they learned from the brief confusion in the Biden student loan cases?
Thomas calls out his colleagues for endorsing a contradiction by allowing Trump to fire independent agency members in Slaughter but barring him from removing Fed Board members in Cook www.courthousenews.com/supreme-cour...
Roberts rebukes Thomas in Federal Reserve Board firing case: "Justice Thomas goes for broke," Roberts says, by outflanking the government and contesting the statute's constitutionality www.courthousenews.com/supreme-cour...
Justices greenlight Trump’s executive firing spree, slaughtering 90 years of precedent www.courthousenews.com/justices-gre...
In dissent, liberal justices admonished their colleagues for giving Trump a power unknown to the English crown and granting him a license to act in defiance of the law "The result is a President who emerges with far greater power than ever before" www.courthousenews.com/justices-gre...
Breaking: Supreme Court rules against Trump on Fed Board firing, upholding lower court order allowing Lisa Cook to remain on board
Breaking: Supreme Court sides with Trump on FTC firing case, overruling Humphrey’s Executor and striking a blow to the independence of executive agencies
News: SCOTUS holds that police officers conducted a Fourth Amendment search when they acquired Chatrie’s location data from Google because an individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy in his cell-phone location information.
Breaking: Supreme Court rules against RNC challenge to mail in ballot deadlines, holding election-day statutes do not preempt state laws allowing ballots that are cast by Election Day to be received by officials after that day
News: SCOTUS denies Alan Dershowitz’s cert petition involving $300M defamation suit against CNN to reconsider NYT v. Sullivan The landmark 1A ruling protects journalists from liability when reporting on public officials. Thomas and Gorsuch dissent