Senior reporter at @bloomberglaw.com covering the Supreme Court. Previously, courts & investigations at WUSA. Hot sauce enthusiast. Opinions my own.
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Three opinions from the court today, all interestingly enough from the April sitting and 2/3 unanimous (the other 8-1).
Could be dealing with Alabama's emergency redistricting petition delayed finalizing some of the older, more divided cases.
More opinions coming again next Thursday. Nearly two dozen cases are still awaiting decisions.
Federal judges have expressed frustration repeatedly over the past year with having to read the tea leaves of the Supreme Court's unexplained emergency docket decisions.
Last night, a South Carolina district judge had the rare chance to take his vexation directly to a justice.
The US Supreme Court will hear a rare pro se case filed by a Texas inmate.
William Maxwell says he should be able to file a habeas suit challenging Texas BOP's denial of First Step Act credits that would let him transfer out early. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
In a per curiam order tonight, the Supreme Court allows Alabama to move forward with an electoral map a lower court had found intentionally discriminates against Black voters.
All three of the court's liberal justices dissent.
And still no ruling in Landor v. Louisiana, the only remaining case from the court's November sitting. It asks whether state prison officials may be sued in federal court for violations of inmates' religious liberties. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
With today's opinions, only Landor v. Louisiana--a Rasfatarian inmate's religious liberty suit over his forced shaving--remains undecided from the Supreme Court's November sitting. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Justice Amy Coney Barrett's home was the target of a swatting attempt last night, Fairfax County police say.
A caller falsely reported hearing "two or three gunshots" and arguing at her Virginia home. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
The Supreme Court dismisses as improvidently granted a death penalty case out of Alabama about how state courts should analyze multiple IQ tests.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justice Jackson, writes that it was a poor vehicle to decide the question. news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and...
The Supreme Court in two decisions today placed limits on when lower courts may consider the First Step Act's expanded compassionate release opportunities for inmates challenging their sentences. news.bgov.com/us-law-week/...
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Supreme Court conservatives appeared reluctant to expand the right to sue state prison officials in federal court for violations of inmates’ religious liberties, in the case of a devout Rastafarian wh...
The US Supreme Court won’t rule for now on how state courts should analyze the results of multiple IQ tests when determining if death row inmates have an intellectual disability that would bar their e...
The First Step Act didn’t give federal judges free reign in deciding what factors to consider when deciding compassionate release petitions from inmates, the Supreme Court said.
Judge Richard Gergel asked Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson tonight whether lower courts are supposed to follow SCOTUS' often unreasoned emergency docket decisions over decades-old precedent.
That's a "legitimate question," Jackson said. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
A federal judge pressed Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on how lower courts are supposed to interpret the Supreme Court’s increasingly common and often unexplained emergency orders.
