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The morning read for Monday, April 1

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

Did Prosecutors’ Sex Shaming Help Send Brenda Andrew to Death Row? (Adam Liptak, The New York Times)
Texas Claim of Immigration Invasion Buckles Under Constitution (Mark Fleming & Charles Bridge, Bloomberg Law)
Conservatives Are Getting Comfortable Talking Openly About a National Abortion Ban (Reva Siegel & Mary Ziegler, Slate)
“What If No One Has

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The morning read for Friday, March 29

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

Supreme Court abortion case brings 19th century chastity law to the forefront (Tierney Sneed, CNN)
Supreme Court delay prompts federal judges to act in South Carolina redistricting dispute (Lawrence Hurley, NBC News)
South Carolina to use ‘unconstitutional’ congressional map after Supreme Court silence (Christine Zhu, Politico)
How Justice Thomas’s ‘Nearly Adopted Daughter’ Became His

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Justices seem to favor IRS in dispute over shareholder’s life insurance policy

The justices were considerably more subdued in the argument in Connelly v. Internal Revenue Service than they were on Tuesday, when they confronted the FDA’s treatment of the abortion drug mifepristone. This is a case about the tax treatment of life insurance policies that closely held corporations use to manage the death of a shareholder. Assume, as is common, a small corporation owned by members of the same family. When one dies, if the surviving shareholders want to keep … Read the rest

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A fast-moving argument over medication abortion

It’s a crisp morning here as Washington’s famous cherry blossoms are holding on to their leaves and color a good eight days after they reached an unexpectedly early peak bloom. The court has some of the trees right on its grounds, and they will be a backdrop to much expressive activity over today’s lone case — Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, about the agency’s 2016 and 2021 actions easing access to the abortion drug … Read the rest

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The morning read for Friday, March 22

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

Former Justice Stephen Breyer reflects on ‘unfortunate’ Supreme Court leak before Dobbs abortion ruling (Alexandra Marquez, NBC News)
‘Where does it stop?’ Court questions effort to undo Maryland gun laws. (Rachel Weiner, The Washington Post)
Trump floats method for the Supreme Court to further delay his trial without giving him full immunity (Tierney Sneed,

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Erroneous admission of a murder confession as “harmless?”

The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here.

It has been more than a month (and two conferences) since the Supreme Court has relisted a case for the first time; I’ve been doing this column for more than a decade and I can’t remember another dry spell of that length. As we head into this week’s conference, at which the court … Read the rest

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Justices appear sympathetic to insurance company in asbestos bankruptcy

Tuesday’s argument in Truck Insurance Exchange v. Kaiser Gypsum Co. considered a technical question under the Bankruptcy Code, how to decide when an entity is a “party in interest” under the statute, which gives it a right to “be heard on any issue” in a Chapter 11 proceeding. The debtor, a failed asbestos company, claims that it will perform its insurance contracts in full: It will pay all the deductibles it owes, 100 cents on the dollar. Accordingly, it … Read the rest

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Announcement of opinions for Tuesday, March 19

On Tuesday, March 19, we will be live blogging as the court releases opinions in one or more argued cases from the current term.

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