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Here's the DOJ brief, by Acting Solicitor General Jeff Wall, seeking to allow the federal executions, including one today, to proceed (Docket #: 20A8): supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/20/2…
Here's the DOJ docket: supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?Fi…
Docket #s 20A6 and 20A7 present stay applications from Lee's team:

20A6: supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?fi…

20A7 is a stay application (attached image) associated with this case: supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?fi…
WHAT'S GOING ON?

DOJ is trying to execute Daniel Lewis Lee today. A federal judge in DC put the federal executions on hold, and DOJ asked Chief Justice John Roberts to issue a stay of that injunction (allowing the executions to proceed) or to vacate it altogether.
The second and third stay requests come from Lee's lawyers, and they are out of the 7th Circuit, where the execution is to take place, so they have gone to Justice Kavanaugh, who oversees requests out of that circuit.
As is the general practice in most death penalty cases, the Chief Justice and Justice Kavanaugh are likely to refer these matters to the full Supreme Court for consideration — particularly given DOJ's involvement and that two circuit justices are already involved.
As Steve discusses, these actions are part of the complex so-called "shadow docket," where the justices make big decisions with even less transparency than in the normal #SCOTUS case consideration.
The response to DOJ's #SCOTUS request to allow today's execution to proceed is tough and strong. supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/20/2…
It’s 9:30pm. Still no order from #SCOTUS on any of the requests pending before it, leaving the DC district court’s injunction in place and, thus far, preventing today’s scheduled federal execution of Daniel Lewis Lee.
And there is the stay request pending at the DC Circuit as well, as Mark notes.
It’s now past 10:30p, and the federal execution scheduled to take place today remains enjoined — with no word from #SCOTUS or the DC Circuit on DOJ requests to allow Daniel Lee’s execution to proceed.
DOJ did, however, just file its reply at #SCOTUS seeking to stay or vacate the injunction — still seeking to proceed.
It's past 11p now. DOJ is still enjoined from proceeding with federal executions, including the execution of Daniel Lee that was scheduled to have taken place today.
BREAKING: DC Circuit DENIES DOJ request to proceed with today's scheduled execution by denying a stay of the district court's injunction. The DC Circuit also orders expedited merits briefing in federal execution challenge.
This is the merits briefing schedule in the DC Circuit:
Here is the full DC Circuit order: scribd.com/document/46907…
UPDATE: DOJ did not execute Daniel Lee on Monday. An injunction remains in place, and the warrant has now expired. The DC Circuit has set an expedited briefing schedule for DOJ's appeal of the injunction halting all four scheduled federal executions.
The injunction and DC Circuit timeline would mean that all three July scheduled executions would not take place as scheduled.
DOJ's stay request is still pending at #SCOTUS from before the DC Circuit ruling. SCOTUS has not ruled on it. DOJ could file a renewed request in that matter now, adding in information about the DC Circuit ruling and still seeking a stay of the dist ct injunction.
Given that the DC Circuit has already set a quick schedule for the appeal of the preliminary injunction, it would be quite a thing for #SCOTUS — having already let the Monday warrant for the first execution pass it by — to cut that short.
To be clear, in that last tweet, I'm talking about a #SCOTUS ruling on the original DOJ stay request. To do so now, without waiting for any further briefing about the DC Circuit's ruling, seems totally unnecessary.
Here’s an enraging thread from @LilianaSegura about how incompetent and/or malevolent DOJ is when dealing with media seeking to cover information about the federal government trying to hold its first execution in 17 years.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 per curiam decision, vacates the district court injunction halting the pending federal executions. Justices Breyer and Sotomayor write dissenting opinions, joined by Justices Ginsburg and Ginsburg and Kagan, respectively.
Here is Breyer’s dissent, joined by Ginsburg:
Here is Sotomayor’s dissent, joined by Ginsburg and Kagan:
And, #SCOTUS denied Daniel Lee’s stay of execution requests out of the 7th Circuit with no explanation and no noted dissents.
Despite the fact that the warrant was for Monday, DOJ apparently thinks it can just go ahead on Tuesday and execute Daniel Lee.
The federal govt put Daniel Lee to death at 8:07a today. It was the first federal execution in 17 years. Lee was killed after an unsigned 2am #SCOTUS order, even as an expedited schedule had been set for a federal appeals court to review Lee’s challenge.
For continuity, here is where my thread continued overnight with the Supreme Court’s 2a order (this later part of the thread got hidden under another tweet b/c I misthreaded):
And here was a short thread explaining in plain English what happened at SCOTUS last night:
Here’s a statement from Lee’s lawyers — including discussion of *further* overnight lawyering by DOJ seeking to allow it to proceed with Lee’s execution: drive.google.com/file/d/1g9E242…
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