“Supreme Court Allows Rapid Third-Country Deportations, for Now; The court also announced it would hear arguments in December on the legality of the Trump administration policy to swiftly deport immigrants to countries not their own”: Abbie VanSickle of The New York Times has this report.
Julian Mark and Justin Jouvenal of The Washington Post report that “Supreme Court allows ‘third country’ deportations to resume for now; The high court will later hear arguments and make a final ruling on the Trump administration’s controversial policy of sending migrants to countries where they are not citizens.”
Josh Gerstein of Politico reports that “Supreme Court lets Trump resume third-country deportations; But the justices will hear oral arguments in December on the legality of the policy.”
And Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service reports that “Supreme Court yields to Trump, giving feds free rein on third-country deportations; Immigrant advocates say the Trump administration’s third-country deportation policy left their clients to face prolonged and arbitrary detention, beatings, sexual assault and even disappearance.”
You can access today’s order of the U.S. Supreme Court at this link.
“Justice Alito’s Climate Case Recusal; The Court hasn’t said why, but Suncor v. Boulder County now could split 4-4”: This editorial will appear in Wednesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.
“Trump Loses Bid to Pause Judge’s Sanctions in IRS Case Fight”: Zoe Tillman of Bloomberg News has this report.
You can access today’s order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit at this link.
“Appeals court seems likely to let Boasberg’s contempt probe continue; The appeals court seemed to favor giving U.S. District Judge James Boasberg more leeway to continue probing whether officials flouted his orders when they deported hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador”: Josh Gerstein of Politico has this report.
Jan Wolfe of Reuters reports that “US appeals court mulls contempt probe over Trump deportation flights.”
Derek Hawkins of The Washington Sun reports that “Some Judges Sound Open to Restarting Contempt Probe in El Salvador Deportation Case; An appeals court heard oral arguments Tuesday over Judge James Boasberg’s review of whether Trump administration officials defied his court order.”
And Ryan Knappenberger of Courthouse News Service reports that “Full DC Circuit grills DOJ in bid to block contempt probe over El Salvador deportations; A federal judge’s finding that there was probable cause the Trump administration willfully ignored court orders and could face criminal contempt proceedings has been on hold since April 2025.”
You can access the audio of today’s en banc oral argument of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit at this link.
“Suncor v. Boulder: Why the Constitution and the Clean Air Act Leave Deception-Based Climate Claims Standing.” Michael Burger has this post at the “Just Security” blog.
“Supreme Court Ruling On Disputed Election May Conflict With State Law; The high court struck down a state-ordered election in House District 43 resulting from a lauhala basket tiebreaker; The remedy is now being called into question”: Chad Blair of Honolulu Civil Beat has this report.
“[P]laintiff Joseph Terborg submitted a notice of claim to the Town of Payson and others (collectively, the ‘Town’) offering to settle his personal injury claim for ‘one hundred thousand dollars ($250,000).’ We conclude that because the written and numerical amounts for the settlement offer conflict, Terborg failed to comply with § 12-821.01(A)’s specific-amount requirement.” So ruled the Supreme Court of Arizona in a decision issued last Thursday.
In news coverage, Howard Fischer of Arizona Capitol Times reports that “AZ Supreme Court tosses lawsuit against Payson due to apparent typo.”
“Why ‘Let’s go, Brandon’ is worth a legal fight; The effort to regulate the ‘profane’ political slogan runs up against decades of Supreme Court precedent”: Conor Fitzpatrick has this essay online at The Washington Post.
“Is Press Access a Constitutional Right?” You can access today’s new episode of the “Advisory Opinions” podcast via this link and on YouTube.
“Will the EDPa. Investigate Krasner? We Won’t Know for a While. Although court watchers said that much of what happens from here on out will be unknown to the public, one thing seems likely: federal prosecutors will investigate.” Max Mitchell and Riley Brennan of The Legal Intelligencer have this report.
“Junior Lawyers Shouldn’t Shrink From Surplus DOJ Job Openings”: Martin Weinstein has this essay online at Bloomberg Law.
“It Was the Essential Home of Supreme Court News. Now It’s a Joke. What Happened?” Online at Slate, Jay Willis has a Jurisprudence essay that begins, “Earlier this month, SCOTUSblog hosted its annual Supreme Court ‘summit’ in Washington.”
Update: The essay is also available via Balls and Strikes under the headline “The Conservative Takeover of SCOTUSblog Is Just What the Supreme Court Needed; SCOTUSblog used to cover the Supreme Court; Now, it cheers for it.”
“Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Getting Tired of the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket Abuses; The conservative supermajority keeps refusing to take the real-world harms of its work seriously”: Madiba K. Dennie has this essay online at Balls and Strikes.
“Short Shrift? Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Mostly Skips This Appeals Court; Since its creation in 1982, the Federal Circuit has sent just one of its former clerks on to the Supreme Court; It took an extraordinary resume and years of effort to break the mold; A personal connection to the justice didn’t hurt either.” Jimmy Hoover of The National Law Journal has this report.
“Second Prosecutor Quits Trump’s ‘Grand Conspiracy’ Case; The resignation adds to the setbacks to the most sweeping effort by the Justice Department to fulfill the president’s desire to take revenge against the federal officials who have investigated him”: Alan Feuer of The New York Times has this report.
“Justice Alito Recuses Himself Days Before Major Climate-Change Case; Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. had faced pressure to recuse himself from the climate case because he owns stock in oil companies”: Abbie VanSickle of The New York Times has this report.
James Romoser of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Justice Alito Won’t Participate in Supreme Court Case on Climate Change; The justice previously indicated he wouldn’t recuse himself over his ownership of oil-and-gas stocks.”
Lesley Clark and Alex Guillén of Politico report that “Alito bows out of blockbuster Supreme Court climate case; The conservative justice had previously resisted calls from environmentalists to recuse himself.”
And Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service reports that “Justice Alito steps away from major climate dispute; Despite pushing back on earlier calls to step away from the case for his financial interests in oil companies, the conservative justice issued an about-face only a week before oral arguments.”
You can view the recusal notification letter at this link.
“‘Incorrect and extreme’: Colleagues chew out Trump judges over ‘abhorrent’ ICE policy.” David Edwards of Raw Story has this report.
You can access Friday’s order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denying rehearing en banc, and the opinions accompanying that order, at this link.
“Guantanamo Dispatch: Innocent or Guilty, Accused USS Cole Bomber May Never Go Free.” Carol Rosenberg has this post at the “Just Security” blog.
“253. Introducing ‘The Court We Need’: Due out May 4, 2027, my second book about the Supreme Court offers a more nuanced diagnosis of exactly what’s wrong with the Court — and how (and why) we should fix it.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.
“Justice Alito Recuses From Suncor Climate Case at Supreme Court”: Jordan Fischer of Bloomberg Law has this report.
And Lawrence Hurley of NBC News has an article headlined “In reversal, Justice Samuel Alito steps aside from major climate case; Alito will sit out the first case heard by the Supreme Court this term after facing calls from the left to do so because he owns stock in oil companies; He had previously pushed back.”
“A New Term of Supreme Chaos”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast via this link and on YouTube.
“Supreme Court vote shadows Maine Sen. Susan Collins in her first race after abortion rights decision”: Kimberlee Kruesi and Patrick Whittle of The Associated Press have this report.
“Jenner & Block Nabs NJ Top Supreme Court Advocate Feigenbaum”: Alex Ebert of Bloomberg Law has this report.
“Trump takes fight over prisoners’ transgender medical treatment to Supreme Court”: Stephen Dinan of The Washington Times has this report.
John Fritze of CNN reports that “Trump asks Supreme Court to suspend transgender medical care in federal prisons.”
And Josh Gerstein of Politico reports that “Trump asks Supreme Court to OK limits on transgender-related care for prisoners; Lower courts ruled that the Bureau of Prisons policy didn’t appear to grapple with relevant evidence.”
You can access the court filing at this link.
Update: In other coverage, Ann E. Marimow of The New York Times reports that “Trump Administration Asks Justices to Allow It to Deny Hormones to Trans Inmates; The Bureau of Prisons policy, which has been blocked by lower courts, would give transgender prisoners access to psychotherapy and antidepressants instead of certain gender-transition medical treatments.”
“Clarence Thomas, a Profile in Courage; Justice Clarence Thomas’s brand of originalism is ‘going further,’ and he is now on track to set the Supreme Court’s longevity record”: Mark Pulliam has this book review post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.
“The Fourteen-Year Labor to Try the 9/11 Case; Justice has been delayed; Will it be denied?” Bryce G. Poole has this post at Civitas Outlook.
“Trump Gets Fifth Circuit Vacancy as Bush Appointee Steps Back”: Jacqueline Thomsen of Bloomberg Law has this report.
“Is the SCOTUS Climate Change Case a ‘Conservative Intuition in Search of a Constitutional Clause’?” Ryan J. Walsh and Michael A. Fragoso have this essay online at the In Limine site of the Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy.
In the October 5, 2026 issue of The New Yorker: In the Talk of the Town section, Jelani Cobb has a Comment titled “The President vs. the Press: Donald Trump’s behavior cannot be called unexpected at this point; What was noteworthy last week, however, was the way that the media responded.”
And Eyal Press has an Annals of Law article headlined “Should I Stay or Should I Go? The quandary faced by government lawyers who think that the Trump Administration is subverting justice.”
“Everybody Out of the Pool: Trump banned three news outlets from the White House; Then something unprecedented happened.” You can access the new installment of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast via this link.
“Judicial Notice (09.27.26): Slow On The Uptake? An ‘epic resignation letter,’ a Trump judge ruling against Trump, a Supreme rebuke of a circuit court, and ‘boomerang’ partners returning to Weil Gotshal.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.
“Philadelphia’s DA, the Dean of Progressive Prosecutors, Has His Own Legal Trouble; Allegations of a flawed murder review, an angry rant about ‘Nazis,’ and warnings of ‘consequences’ are rocking the office of District Attorney Larry Krasner”: Scott Calvert of The Wall Street Journal has this report.
“Another Try for Religious Charter Schools; The Supreme Court split 4-4, so a Jewish school is trying again”: The Wall Street Journal has published this editorial.
“Trump’s ‘magic words’: National security; The president’s attempts to link pet projects and policies to life-and-death matters of national security are increasingly being met with eye rolls from federal judges.” Kyle Cheney of Politico has this report.
“Appeals Judge Says Justices’ Emergency Orders Can Lack Guidance”: Jordan Fischer and Justin Wise of Bloomberg Law have this report.
