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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...

#SCOTUS prequel on @whyy.org whyy.org/episodes/sco...

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...

Supreme Court allows Trump administration to end humanitarian status for some migrants The move to grant a stay in the case means that the Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans who were granted temporary parole under the program known as CHNV would lose their temporary legal sta...

A half-million Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans who thought they had protected status in the U.S. now have lost it, per #SCOTUS order today. www.npr.org/2025/05/30/n...

Supreme Court justices appear divided in birthright citizenship arguments The arguments focused on whether federal district court judges can rule against the administration on a nationwide basis.

“Let’s just assume you’re dead wrong,” Justice Kagan quizzing SG John Sauer at today’s #SCOTUS arguments.

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Supreme Court appears open to religious charter schools The case is from Oklahoma, which like 45 other states, has laws that say charter schools must be public schools funded by the state, closely supervised by the state, and be non-sectarian.

#SCOTUS's conservative majority seemed on Wednesday to be on the verge of taking a transformative step—a step that would for the first time allow overtly religious schools to be fully funded by the taxpayers.
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Supreme Court leans toward parents who object to LGBTQ books in public schools At the center of the case is the school system in Montgomery County, Md., the most religiously diverse county in the U.S., with 160,000 students of almost all faiths.

#SCOTUS poised to tell public schools they must have opt-outs for classes that include course material that parents object to.
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Supreme Court weighs who should decide public school curriculum: Judges or school boards? At issue is whether school systems are required to allow parents to opt their kids out of classes because of religious objections to classroom materials.

#SCOTUS jumps back into the culture wars today, as the justices hear args testing whether public schools are required to let their kids opt out of classes where story books with LGBTQ characters are sometimes discussed.
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Clash between Trump and the courts sparks questions of a constitutional crisis Every day it seems new conflicts arise between President Trump and the courts. Prompting another round of the question: Are we in a constitutional crisis?

With emergency appeals mounting, #SCOTUS is at the center of an important question: Are we in the midst of a constitutional crisis?
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Clash between Trump and the courts sparks questions of a constitutional crisis Every day it seems new conflicts arise between President Trump and the courts. Prompting another round of the question: Are we in a constitutional crisis?

After an extraordinary post-midnight #SCOTUS order, focus intensifies on whether the court can tame Trump.

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Supreme Court to hear challenge to Trump's birthright citizenship order in May Trump issued an executive order on day one of his administration that sought to limit birthright citizenship, an idea widely considered a fringe view because the Supreme Court ruled to the contrary 12...

#SCOTUS to rule on Trump's ban of birthright citizenship, probably.

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Supreme Court hears case that could see more Planned Parenthood clinics closed The Supreme Court heard arguments on whether South Carolina can remove Planned Parenthood clinics from its state Medicaid program, even though those funds cannot generally be used to fund abortions.

#SCOTUS ponders whether anti-abortion states can remove Planned Parenthood from Medicaid programs that provide non-abortion medical services.

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Supreme Court to decide if states can strip Planned Parenthood of Medicaid funds At issue is whether a state, in this case, South Carolina, can remove Planned Parenthood clinics from its state Medicaid program, even though Medicaid funds cannot generally be used to fund abortions.

S.C. concedes that Planned Parenthood is a medically qualified provider for non-abortion health care but S.C. wants to kick Medicaid off its list of qualified providers. Today #SCOTUS examines whether the state can, and what the remedy is if it can’t.

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The Podcast Academy gave out its Ambie awards last night + NPR cleaned up, winning best Documentary Podcast, best Biz pod, best Society + Culture pod, best True Crime pod (WBUR), + the Politics pod beat out Bloomberg + to win its category too.

Supreme Court seems ready to let religious groups opt out of unemployment compensation laws The case was brought by a chapter of Catholic Charities in Wisconsin, which says that it should be able to opt out of the mandatory state unemployment compensation system.

At #SCOTUS, conservative and liberal justices alike lean toward Catholic Charities in dispute over paying into Wisconsin's state unemployment compensation fund.

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