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The morning read for Monday, March 17

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

Disabled Maple Grove teen takes school district discrimination case to U.S. Supreme Court (James Walsh, The Minnesota Star Tribune)
Trump administration touts deportations under Alien Enemies Act after a judge temporarily blocked its use (Megan Lebowitz, Julia Ainsley, Gary Grumbach. & Nnamdi Egwuonwu, NBC News)
Louisiana’s nitrogen gas execution back on for next week, federal appeals court

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The morning read for Friday, March 14

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

Trump asks Supreme Court to allow him to end birthright citizenship (John Fritze, CNN)
Trump takes birthright citizenship to the Supreme Court (Nina Totenberg, NPR)
Trump asks Supreme Court to curb judges’ power to block policies nationwide (Josh Gerstein, Politico)
Idaho will be only state with firing squad as main execution method, after governor signs bill (Kyle

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Trump asks Supreme Court to step in on birthright citizenship

The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to allow it to enforce an executive order signed by President Donald Trump ending birthright citizenship – the guarantee of citizenship to virtually anyone born in the United States. In a trio of near-identical filings by Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris, the administration urged the justices to partially block preliminary injunctions, issued by federal district judges in Seattle, Maryland, and Massachusetts, that bar the government from implementing Trump’s executive order … Read the rest

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The morning read for Tuesday, March 11

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

Supreme Court seems intent on taking small steps in dealing with challenges to Trump’s agenda (Mark Sherman & Lindsay Whitehurst, The Associated Press)
Aftershocks of Supreme Court’s Immunity Ruling Echo in New Trump Cases (Adam Liptak, The New York Times)
The Court Shouldn’t Bruen-ize the Free Exercise Clause (Michael McConnell, Douglas Laycock, Stephanie Barclay, & Mark

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Restitution, medical malpractice, and a capital appeal

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.

Once again this week, the Supreme Court has been busy sifting through the relists. The court granted review of one of last week’s new relists raising a double jeopardy question about a federal sentencing enhancement for using a firearm during a violent crime. (Grants are now filling in the 2025-26 term, which will … Read the rest

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The morning read for Friday, March 7

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

Texas tells Supreme Court it shouldn’t be ‘left holding the bag’ for US nuclear waste (Maureen Groppe, USA Today)
Oklahoma’s ‘dirty political laundry’ on full display as U.S. Supreme Court takes interest in state (Emily Stacey & Christine Pappas, Oklahoma Voice)
MAGA world turns against Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett (Lawrence Hurley, NBC News)
What Alito’s

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Supreme Court denies Trump request to block $2 billion foreign-aid payment

A divided Supreme Court on Wednesday turned down a request by the Trump administration to lift an order by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., that had directed the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development to pay nearly $ 2 billion in foreign-aid reimbursements for work that has already been done.

In a brief unsigned opinion, the court noted that the Feb. 26 deadline for the government to make the payments had already passed. It instructed … Read the rest

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Court set to reverse heightened requirement for arbitration awards under FSIA

Monday’s argument in CC/Devas (Mauritius) Limited v. Antrix Corp. was an odd one: The justices asked no questions at all about the question on which they’d granted review, because the parties agree that the lower court’s answer to that question was incorrect. So almost all of the discussion at the argument focused on what, if anything, the court should decide before sending the case back to the court of appeals.

CC/Devas arises under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. When … Read the rest