“‘Good neighbor’ air pollution fight shines spotlight on Supreme Court shadow docket; The justices typically rule on emergency applications out of the public eye, but next week, a fight to pause government regulations on transient air pollution will be aired out during oral arguments”: Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service has this report.
“Capitol Riot Case Set for April Arguments at Supreme Court”: Lydia Wheeler of Bloomberg Law has this report.
“Conservatives Escalate Pressure Against Muslim Appellate Pick; Conservative group running ads to pressure senators; White House defends Adeel Mangi; would be first Muslim circuit judge”: Tiana Headley of Bloomberg Law has this report.
“Conservative Activists Are Ready to Bury Federal Courts In Paperwork; While the Supreme Court decides whether to get rid of Chevron deference once and for all, overworked trial court judges are already preparing for the worst”: Jay Willis has this post at Balls and Strikes.
“‘It can happen anywhere.’ Indiana parents lost custody of trans teen, ask SCOTUS for help.” Kristine Phillips of The Indianapolis Star have this report on a case pending at the cert. stage at the U.S. Supreme Court.
“A New Study on Medication Abortion Refutes the Arguments Conservatives Are Taking to the Supreme Court; A study of more than 6,000 medication abortions obtained through telehealth found 98 percent were effective and 99.8 percent were safe”: Julianne McShane of Mother Jones has this report.
“Ski resorts’ long history of immunity threatened by Colorado Supreme Court case; The case involving a teen who was paralyzed after a fall from a chairlift challenges the use of liability waivers, which the resort industry says protects recreational opportunities for children in the state”: Jason Blevins of The Colorado Sun has this report.
“Hawaii Rightly Rejects Supreme Court’s Gun Nonsense; In a scathing takedown, the state’s highest court declared ‘there is no state constitutional right to carry a firearm in public’”: Columnist Francis Wilkinson has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.
“Senate Judiciary Committee Has Yet to Subpoena Harlan Crow or Leonard Leo; More than two months after authorizing subpoenas for two key figures in the Supreme Court’s ethics crisis, Senate Democrats have yet to issue them”: Andy Kroll of ProPublica has this report.
“Alito Pauses Boy Scouts Bankruptcy Abuse Deal Amid Fund Question; Case paused until full Supreme Court can weigh in; Question over proposed settlement fund to compensate abuse victims”: Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson of Bloomberg Law has this report.
And Dietrich Knauth of Reuters reports that “US Supreme Court’s Alito pauses Boy Scouts $2.46 billion abuse settlement.”
You can access today’s order of the U.S. Supreme Court at this link.
“Trump Privately Expresses Support for a 16-Week Abortion Ban; In supporting a 16-week ban with exceptions, Donald Trump appears to be trying to satisfy social conservatives who want to further restrict abortion access and voters who want more modest limits”: Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan, and Lisa Lerer of The New York Times have this report.
“The Taft Court and America’s Jurisprudence of Reaction”: William J. Novak has this guest post at the “Balkinization” blog.
Also at that blog, Brad Snyder has a guest post titled “Taft Packed the Supreme Court — Twice.”
“SCOTUS Ducking the Trump Eligibility Question Now will Pressure the Court to Rule in his Favor Later”: Michael C. Dorf has this post at his blog, “Dorf on Law.”
And at the “Balkinization” blog, Gerard N. Magliocca has a post titled “Ballot Access Challenges vs. Election Contests.”
“Trump makes final pitch to Supreme Court in fraught immunity case”: John Fritze of CNN has this report. You can access the reply at this link.