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Supreme Court allows Trump to prohibit gender election on passports The court's decision is not a final ruling, however; it just permits Trump's passport policy to go into effect while litigation continues in the lower courts.

In another #Trump admin shadow docket win, #SCOTUS majority says "Displaying passport holders' sex at birth no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth"

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Supreme Court justices appear skeptical of Trump's tariff arguments At issue is whether the president can bypass Congress and impose tariffs by citing national security.

#SCOTUS appears skeptical of Trump tariff arguments, but Trump maintains that if he loses the tariff case, “Our country will be destroyed, and our military would be instantly obliterated.”
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Supreme Court seems poised to further undercut the Voting Rights Act The court's conservative majority could invalidate the section of the Voting Rights Act aimed at ensuring minority voters are not shut out of the process of drawing new congressional district lines.

Supreme Court seems poised to further undercut the Voting Rights Act

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'The cases swung, not me': Ex-Justice Kennedy reflects on a changing Supreme Court In an interview with NPR to be aired in October, Kennedy said he is "very worried" about America today.

#SCOTUS Justice Anthony Kennedy, who stepped down from the court in 2018, earned a reputation as the court’s “swing justice,” bc his vote was so often determinative. But in an interview with NPR, he says, “ the cases swung, not me.”

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Former Supreme Court Justice Kennedy's new memoir is unusually revealing Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, who stepped down from the court in 2018, has written a book about his life on the court and off. It's far more revealing than most books written by justices.

Justice Anthony Kennedy, who retired from #SCOTUS in 2018, is worried about this country. In an NPR interview the Reagan appointee warns that “Democracy is not guaranteed to survive.”

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Supreme Court seems highly doubtful of limits on conversion therapy for minors The court appeared ready to invalidate laws in some two dozen states that bar therapists from practicing a version of therapy that seeks to change a teenager's sexual orientation or gender identity.

#SCOTUS seems skeptical of limits on conversion therapy for minors during yesterday's oral arguments

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Humility is being the answer to a jeopardy question —for a second time—and none of the contestants knowing who you are

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Supreme Court allows Trump to fire -- for now -- remaining Democrat on FTC At issue is whether the president has the authority to dismiss the heads of those agencies that are protected by Congress.

#SCOTUS upholds Trump firing of FTC Commissioner on shadow docket. Kagan dissents for 3 court libs. “Our emergency docket should not be used, as it has been here, to transfer govt authority from Congress to the Prez & thus to reshape the nation’s separation of powers.”

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Supreme Court agrees to hear challenge to some of Trump's sweeping tariffs The tariffs have become a flashpoint, with two lower courts declaring them illegal, and the president asking the Supreme Court for reversal as soon as possible.

#SCOTUS agrees to hear Trump tariff case in November

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Supreme Court okays ICE raids in LA and the firing of an FTC member The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to resume immigration raids in Los Angeles. Chief Justice John Roberts also temporarily barred lower courts from reinstating a member of the FTC.

#SCOTUS opens the gates for ICE raids to restart in LA and temporarily bars the reinstatement of the sole remaining Democratic member of the FTC www.npr.org/2025/09/08/n...

Trump administration policies make their way to the Supreme Court From tariffs to the use of the National Guard in states and the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans -- many of the Trump administration's policies are winding their way to the Supreme Court.

Trump won most of last term’s #SCOTUS cases, but most were on Shadow Docket and temporary. Now the chickens are coming home to roost & we will see what the court thinks on a truckload of cases it can no longer kick down the road.
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#SCOTUS: In two days, two more unsigned court orders on emergency docket. Only one directly involved granting a Trump wish. www.npr.org/2025/07/24/g...

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Supreme Court blocks part of Florida's immigration law Immigrant rights organizations sued the state arguing that its new law conflicts with federal immigration law, and under longstanding Supreme Court precedent, states must bow to federal law in the eve...

#SCOTUS blocks Florida's law banning undocumented people from crossing into the state. www.npr.org/2025/07/09/n...

Supreme Court allows Trump to resume mass federal layoffs for now Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who was appointed to the court by President Biden, dissented.

#SupremeCourt upholds, for now, Trump plan for major govt reorg that would kill many programs authorized by congress and eliminate hundreds of thousands of federal jobs. www.npr.org/2025/07/08/n...

#SCOTUS agrees to review two cases next term testing state laws banning transgender girls and women from women's sports.

The Supreme Court has created an endless summer of work for itself The court closed its latest term on Friday, but it will still be working on a steady stream of emergency appeals in the coming weeks and months.

At the #SupremeCourt it's all over, but it's not. www.npr.org/2025/06/30/n...

Supreme Court limits nationwide injunctions in birthright citizenship order The decision issues some limits on the power of federal judges to universally block President Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship, asking lower courts to reconsider their rulings.

#SCOTUS rules for Trump in birthright citizenship case, except it doesn't. www.npr.org/2025/06/27/n...

Supreme Court upholds South Carolina's ban on Medicaid funds for Planned Parenthood The Supreme Court allowed South Carolina to remove Planned Parenthood clinics from its state Medicaid program, even though Medicaid funds cannot generally be used to fund abortions.

#SCOTUS Dark times for Planned Parenthood. www.npr.org/2025/06/26/n...

The "supreme irony" of today's Supreme Court Planned Parenthood decision

US Supreme Court to make decisions before end of term - WHYY As the court nears summer recess, some of its biggest cases, like birthright citizenship, age verification for online pornography, religious opt-outs in schools, remain. We’ll preview those and discus...

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U.S. Supreme Court allows -- for now -- third-country deportations A federal judge had previously said people must get at least 15 days to challenge their deportations to countries they're not originally from.

#SCOTUS in unsigned, unexplained order allows Trump admin to deport individuals not to countries where they come from, but to any place in the world that will take them w/o notice or an option to be heard. www.npr.org/2025/06/23/g...

CJ Roberts, writing for conservative supermajority, upholds bans on gender affirming care for minors in roughly half the states. Sotomayor suggests the standard he used would have upheld state bans on interracial marriage.

Supreme Court faces new headwinds with roughly two weeks left in the term Some 20 cases remain to be decided—about a third of the total argued cases--many of them the most important of the term. But the shadow docket — with its own list of cases — looms over the other opini...

#CrunchTime at the Supreme Court with one third of the docket remaining to be decided
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Unanimous Supreme Court makes it easier to sue schools in disability cases Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the unanimous opinion, with Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson writing se...

#SCOTUS unanimously rules for a disabled Minn. teenager denied equal school time to accommodate her disabilities.
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Supreme Court press corps asks chief justice to live-stream court's opinions The press corps' letter was sent to the chief justice a year ago, but there has been no response.

#SCOTUS press corps waits in vain for a reply from chief justice on live streaming opinion announcements from the bench.

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#SCOTUS now livestreams oral arguments but still resists same for opinion announcements.

Supreme Court grants DOGE access to confidential Social Security records The order, for now, overturns actions that limited DOGE's access to sensitive private information. In a separate case, the court said DOGE did not have to share internal records with a watchdog group.

#SCOTUS grants DOGE access to Social Security Administration records over Jackson Dissent. Jackson: "once again this Court dons its emergency responder gear, rushes to the scene, and uses its equitable power to fan the flames rather than extinguish them."

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#SCOTUS issues emergency order, for now, giving DOGE team unfettered access to intensely personal social security records.

Supreme Court rules on guns, reverse discrimination, and religious tax exemptions The majority opinion in each case was written by one of the court's liberals, proving that liberals too can rule for religion, for gun manufacturers, and for a woman claiming she was discriminated aga...

#SCOTUS has 3 major decisions, all 9-0, and proving that liberals too can rule 4 religion, 4 gun makers, and 4 plaintiffs claiming reverse discrimination. www.npr.org/2025/06/05/n...