Supreme Court

The morning read for Wednesday, August 30

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

Payday Lenders Gave Millions To Republican Group That Backed Supreme Court Suit To Annihilate CFPB (Akela Lacy, The Intercept)
Case closed? Supreme Court silent after Thomas luxury travel raised ethics scandal (John Fritze, USA Today)
After Supreme Court Forces Its Hand, E.P.A. Curbs Wetlands Protection (Lisa Friedman & Coral Davenport, The New York Times)

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The morning read for Thursday, August 31

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

Drugmakers could find sympathetic US Supreme Court in drug pricing lawsuits (Brendan Pierson, Reuters)
Alabama attorney general says he has right to prosecute people who facilitate travel for out-of-state abortions (Andy Rose, CNN)
Supreme Court Urged to Protect ‘Essential Restraint’ on Taxation (Aysha Bagchi, Bloomberg Law)
The EPA removes federal protections for most of

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Thomas and Alito file 2022 financial disclosures

Justice Clarence Thomas took three trips in 2022 hosted in part or in full by Dallas billionaire Harlan Crow, according to a financial disclosure form made public on Thursday morning. The form also revealed that on at least two of those trips, Thomas traveled by private jet – according to Thomas, at the recommendation of his security detail in the wake of the leaked draft opinion overturning the constitutional right to an abortion.

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A president and a justice: The shaping of securities law at the Supreme Court

So many books cover the work of the Supreme Court that the Journal of Supreme Court History can review several of them in each issue. The overwhelming majority of those books, though, analyze the work of the court interpreting the Constitution. The court’s other task — interpreting federal statutes — remains markedly underrepresented. Of course, it can be hard to craft a sustained narrative about those cases when many deal with relatively obscure statutes that the court rarely examines … Read the rest

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The morning read for Friday, August 25

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:

US thinktank linked to billionaires behind supreme court wealth tax case lobbying (Stephanie Kirchgaessner & Dominic Rushe, The Guardian)
Law schools’ admission essays revamped after Supreme Court affirmative action ruling (Karen Sloan, Reuters)
The Supreme Court’s Ethics Problem Has a Pretty Easy Solution (Michael J. Broyde, Bloomberg Law)
The One Thing the Supreme Court

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Once-suspended Twitter user argues California violated his First Amendment rights

The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here.

Last week the federal government encouraged the justices to review a pair of petitions involving two nearly identical laws in Florida and Texas that seek to regulate how large social media platforms can block, remove, or demonetize user content. Lawmakers in both states passed the bills to address what they … Read the rest

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The morning read for Wednesday, August 23

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

Activist Behind Supreme Court Affirmative Action Cases Is Now Suing Law Firms (Douglas Belkin & Erin Mulvaney, The Wall Street Journal)
Qualified Immunity Faces an Existential Threat at the Supreme Court (Matt Ford, The New Republic)
Jennifer Gruda talks about going from Jaffrey to the Supreme Court (Ashley Saari, Monadnock Ledger-Transcript)
Trump Says He

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The morning read for Monday, August 21

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:

A high school football coach fired 8 years ago for praying on the field is coaching again after the Supreme Court ruled in his favor (Kenneth Niemeyer, Business Insider)
The Grudge Holding, Double Gun Shooting Supreme Court Justice Who Might Save Mark Meadows (Garrett Epps, Washington Monthly)
The case for optimism about the Supreme

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