SPOTTED: Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, went over to chat with Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley at today’s memorial for Sandra Day O’Connor.
Grassley was the only lawmaker who showed up to the special session.
Breaking: Judge Boasberg quashes subpoenas sent to the Federal Reserve Board as part of an investigation into Jerome Powell, per newly unsealed court records.
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Mark your calendar: Oral arguments on Trump's new Section 122 tariffs are set for April 10 at the U.S. Court of International Trade
A guide to Supreme Court justices' attendance at the State of the Union:
Roberts, Kagan & Kavanaugh typically go. Barrett skipped '24 but otherwise does, too.
Sotomayor & Gorsuch sometimes go. Jackson went for Biden, but wasn't at Trump's speech last year.
Alito & Thomas haven't gone in years.
Supreme Court punts on whether the Trump administration can fire the head of the U.S. Copyright Office (part of the Library of Congress)
It'll wait until deciding if Trump can fire the FTC's Rebecca Slaughter and the Fed's Lisa Cook.
Clarence Thomas voted to OK the firing now
New York AG Letitia James' indictment dismissed, too, for same reason:
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BREAKING: A federal judge DISMISSES former FBI Director James Comey's criminal indictment.
"I agree with Mr. Comey that the Attorney General’s attempt to install Ms. Halligan as Interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia was invalid."
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President Trump has brought his legal battle with E. Jean Carroll to the Supreme Court.
The petition asks the justices to toss the jury’s verdict finding Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll in the 1990s (which Trump denies).
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John Bolton has arrived at the federal courthouse in Greenbelt, Md. to surrender.
No photos allowed inside here. But after he entered, he went to the bathroom and was then taken back into the US Marshals office
NY AG Letitia James's indictment has been assigned to U.S. District Judge Jamar Walker.
Walker is an appointee of former President Biden who serves in Norfolk, Va.
NEW: The Supreme Court allows Trump to cancel $4 billion in appropriated foreign aid.
The three liberal justices publicly dissented.
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The Trump administration asks Supreme Court for the go-ahead to fire Lisa Cook
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NEW: The Supreme Court rejects South Carolina's request to enforce its transgender bathroom ban against a transgender boy in 9th grade.
The order says it "is not a ruling on the merits of the legal issues."
Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch dissent
BREAKING: Supreme Court agrees to speedily review Trump's tariffs, setting the stage for a potentially blockbuster case.
Oral arguments will be first week of November.
Trump administration brings the fight over tariffs to the Supreme Court.
The administration wants the justices to decide next week whether they'll take up the case and schedule oral arguments for early November.
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Supreme Court won't block Mississippi's social media age verification law, for now.
But Justice Brett Kavanaugh suggests its unconstitutional and the tech industry's challenge will likely succeed in the end.
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New - The Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to lift a judge's limits on “indiscriminate” immigration raids in the Los Angeles area.
It's the administration's 22nd emergency appeal to the high court since taking office:
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The order references pages 36-38 of the appellees' brief.
That's where a group of self-described "non-African American voters" argue that Louisiana lacks a compelling interest to draw a second majority-Black congressional district to comply with the Voting Rights Act.
Supreme Court announces the question they’ll consider when they rehear a major redistricting case in Louisiana next term:
“Whether the State’s intentional creation of a second majority-minority congressional district violates the
Fourteenth or Fifteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution.”
Spotted in the courtroom gallery for today’s tariff argument:
Judge Pauline Newman, 98, the nation’s oldest active federal judge.
Newman’s colleagues have prevented her from hearing new cases over concerns about her mental fitness.
Newman is suing her colleagues over it.
Not anymore!
Trump admin files emergency application #21. This one seeks to cancel $783 million in NIH grants:
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The Supreme Court has no pending emergency appeals from the Trump administration for the first time since March 25.
With today’s ruling permitting Trump’s firing of CPSC members, all *20* of the admin’s emergency applications have been disposed of one way or another.
Blanche is friends with Ghislaine Maxwell's attorney (David Oscar Markus), so there's already some rapport here:
Here is Trump's suit over The Wall Street Journal's Epstein story:
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Supreme Court allows resumption of Education Department layoffs in an apparent 6-3 vote along ideological lines.
A lower judge had blocked a RIF impacting roughly half the department's workforce.
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First in @thehill.com
A watchdog group is bringing a FOIA lawsuit seeking communications involving Emil Bove, a top DOJ official now nominated for an appeals court judgeship, following a whistleblower complaint:
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Supreme Court takes up whether states can ban transgender athletes from competing on girls’ and women’s school sports teams. The justices will hear appeals from Idaho and West Virginia.
Decision expected by next summer.
w/ @bmigdon.bsky.social
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Trump admin files its 20th emergency application at the Supreme Court since taking office.
They want an emergency ruling greenlighting Trump's firings of Democratic appointees at the CPSC.
The admin also encourages the court to take up the case in full:
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In a 6-3 decision along ideological lines authored by Justice Clarence Thomas, the Supreme Court upheld a Texas law requiring porn sites to verify that users are at least 18 years old.
It rejects a First Amendment challenge brought by the porn industry, which was represented by the ACLU.
