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Supreme Court reporter for @blaw. Mom, runner... nerd. RT ≠ endorsement. Co-host of #CasesPod. #SCOTUS
Jun 24 8 tweets 3 min read
Seven new #SCOTUS grants today. #SCOTUS will consider challenges to state bans on gender-affirming care. No 23-477. Background: bloomberglaw.com/bloomberglawne…
May 29 6 tweets 2 min read
NEW: Justice Alito responds to Congressional requests to recuse from election-related cases based on flags flown at his residences. Image Image
May 22, 2023 8 tweets 4 min read
No new #SCOTUS grants today. #SCOTUS GVR in case asking whether circuit court was required to remand SEC matter back to the agency after finding that the agency had applied the incorrect legal standard. No 22-714 Calcutt v. FDIC. Background: news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/su…
Mar 2, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
NEW: #SCOTUS asks for additional briefing on whether the newly constituted NC Supreme Court’s decision to reconsider its ruling on partisan gerrymandering deprives the Justices of jurisdiction to decide the independent state legislate theory case, Moore v Harper. We covered the development on our Cases and Controversies podcast. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/ra…
Feb 28, 2023 16 tweets 6 min read
Hello from… my office because the VRE sucks. #SCOTUS Image Today at #SCOTUS the Justices will consider challenges to Biden’s $400B student loan forgiveness program. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/bi…
Jan 13, 2023 9 tweets 3 min read
Eight new #SCOTUS grants today. The US Supreme Court has added another free-speech case to its docket, this one dealing with “true threats,” which are unprotected by the First Amendment. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/ju…
Oct 24, 2022 6 tweets 2 min read
Justice Thomas temporarily halts Sen. Graham’s grand jury questioning in Georgia 2020 election investigation. Would expect full #SCOTUS to weigh in soon. Background: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/gr… Important to note this is an administrative stay meant to keep the status quo while briefing rolls in. Georgia prosecutors set to file their response on Thursday.
Oct 13, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
NEW: #SCOTUS refuses to hear Trump appeal over Mar-a-Lago documents. No noted dissents. Trump had asked #SCOTUS to let a court-appointed "special master" review approximately 100 documents with classified markings that were seized during the Aug. search. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/tr…
Oct 12, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
Yaira Dubin, who recently joined the Justice Department, will make her Supreme Court debut Wednesday—one of just four women arguing during the court’s October sitting. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/so… First up is a copyright case involving Prince, Andy Warhol, and Fair Use.
Oct 11, 2022 8 tweets 3 min read
Good morning from #SCOTUS where we’ll get orders at 9:30, followed by arguments at 10. Image First up is dormant Commerce Clause case NPPC v Ross re: California’s animal welfare law Prop 12. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/su…
Jun 23, 2022 31 tweets 8 min read
Ok everyone. Day 2 of #SCOTUS opinions for the week. Those drop at 10, so let's do some #SCOTUSstats. There were 63 argued cases this term. So far 3 have been dismissed, 47 have been decided, and we've got 13 more to go.
Jun 21, 2022 44 tweets 14 min read
#SCOTUS orders at 9:30 followed by opinions at 10.

18 more opinions to go... 2 new #SCOTUS grants plus a new original jurisdiction case.
Jun 28, 2021 21 tweets 7 min read
No opinions but we'll get #SCOTUS orders at 9:30... and it is a monster list. Two new #SCOTUS grants today.
Jun 25, 2021 14 tweets 5 min read
Five minute warning for #SCOTUS opinions... 1st #SCOTUS opinion in Fair Credit Reporting Act case re: “no-injury class actions” (statutory damages where there’s been no actual injury to the plaintiff). No 20-297 TransUnion v. Ramirez. Background: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/su…
Jun 17, 2021 12 tweets 4 min read
BREAKING: Supreme Court upholds Affordable Care Act. In a 7-2 ruling, #SCOTUS says Texas and other red states don't have standing to challenge the act.
Nov 7, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read
#SCOTUS orders county boards in Pennsylvania to segregate mail-in ballots received after 8 pm on Election Day. As @GregStohr noted, there are likely to be only a small number of ballots.
Jul 8, 2020 11 tweets 4 min read
Five more cases to go... 1st #SCOTUS opinion in religious employment case No 19-267 Our Lady of Guadalupe v. Morrissey-Berru re: exemption from discrimination suits for religious employers news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/to…
Jul 6, 2020 9 tweets 3 min read
Eight more cases to go... Also, this constant refreshing of the Supreme Court's website is terrible. How do you all do this all of the time!?!
Jun 22, 2020 11 tweets 4 min read
#SCOTUS will release orders at 9:30, followed by opinion(s) at 10. No new #SCOTUS grants
Jun 18, 2020 9 tweets 2 min read
BREAKING: #SCOTUS says DHS decision to rescind DACA was arbitrary and capricious under the APA The decision is 5-4 with the Chief Justice writing for the majority, which includes Justices Ginbsurg, Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan. In dissent is Justices Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh.
Jun 15, 2020 18 tweets 6 min read
Morning all! 2 new #SCOTUS grants this morning. Here's more from today's order list... 1/? #SCOTUS will hear No 19-897 an immigration case asking the technical question of whether non-citizens in "withholding-only" proceedings are subject to the detention provisions of Section 1226 of the INA or Section 1231. This affects bond hearings.