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Saturday, April 19, 2025

“Playing Chicken With the Constitution: Donald Trump and Stephen Miller are revving up for a face off between the president and the courts.” You can access today’s new episode of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast via this link.

Posted at 10:07 PM by Howard Bashman



“Princeton dedicates building, unveils portrait in honor of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor ’76”: Emily Aronson of Princeton University has this report.

Posted at 10:04 PM by Howard Bashman



“A prince and knight fall in love and the Supreme Court is asked to intervene”: Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has this report.

Posted at 10:03 PM by Howard Bashman



“Understanding The Oral Argument Order in the Birthright Citizenship Cases”: William Baude has this post at the “Divided Argument” Substack site.

Posted at 10:02 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Supreme Court’s Late-Night Rebuke to Trump Is Extraordinary in More Ways Than One; The court didn’t even wait to let Alito write his dissent”: Mark Joseph Stern has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

Online at Vox, Ian Millhiser has an essay titled “The Supreme Court signals it might be losing patience with Trump; In an unusual overnight order, most of the justices voted to halt several illegal deportations.”

And at his “One First” Substack site, Steve Vladeck has a post titled “144. The Supreme Court’s Late-Night Alien Enemy Act Intervention: Just before 1:00 a.m., the justices (aggressively) stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation — in a decision suggesting that a majority understands that these are no longer normal circumstances.”

Posted at 9:58 PM by Howard Bashman



“Inside the Urgent Fight Over the Trump Administration’s New Deportation Effort; The push to deport a group of Venezuelans raises questions about whether the government is following a Supreme Court order requiring that migrants receive due process”: Hamed Aleaziz, Alan Feuer, and Annie Correal of The New York Times have this report.

Adam Liptak of The New York Times reports that “An Urgent Supreme Court Order Protecting Migrants Was Built for Speed; In an overnight ruling blocking the Trump administration from deporting a group of Venezuelans, the justices ignored some of their protocols.”

And Abbie VanSickle of The New York Times reports that “Trump Administration Asks Justices to Reject A.C.L.U. Request to Pause Deportations; The solicitor general asked the Supreme Court to ‘dissolve’ their temporary block on the deportations of Venezuelans and to allow lower courts to consider the case.”

You can access the federal government’s opposition at this link.

Posted at 9:22 PM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court blocks Trump from conducting more deportations under Alien Enemies Act; The 1 a.m. order came after lawyers rushed to the court to stop an ‘imminent’ wave of deportations”: Ali Bianco, Hassan Ali Kanu, Kyle Cheney, and Josh Gerstein of Politico have this report.

You can access today’s order of the U.S. Supreme Court at this link.

Posted at 8:00 AM by Howard Bashman