“Trump reshaped the Supreme Court. Now emergency appeals are helping him reshape the government.” Mark Sherman and Chris Megerian of The Associated Press have this report.
Posted at 10:04 PM by Howard Bashman
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![]() Tuesday, July 15, 2025
“Trump reshaped the Supreme Court. Now emergency appeals are helping him reshape the government.” Mark Sherman and Chris Megerian of The Associated Press have this report. Posted at 10:04 PM by Howard Bashman“Where’s the U.S. border? Trump asks Supreme Court to decide.” Stephen Dinan of The Washington Times has this report. Posted at 10:02 PM by Howard Bashman“Oklahoma Supreme Court quickly stays new law that would establish business courts”: Murray Evans of The Oklahoman has this report. Posted at 10:00 PM by Howard Bashman“New York rejects Texas attempt to punish doctor over abortion pills; Texas has sought to fine a New York-based doctor who allegedly prescribed mifepristone to a Dallas woman, in a case likely headed to the Supreme Court”: Praveena Somasundaram of The Washington Post has this report. Posted at 9:52 PM by Howard Bashman“What the left and right get wrong about Amy Coney Barrett; The Supreme Court justice is unpredictable to both liberals and conservatives”: Ilya Shapiro has this essay online at The Washington Post. Posted at 9:42 PM by Howard Bashman“West Virginia ban on abortion medication upheld”: Jonathan Stempel of Reuters has this report. David Ovalle and Praveena Somasundaram of The Washington Post report that “West Virginia’s near-total abortion pill ban upheld by federal court; The court upheld West Virginia’s 2022 law banning mifepristone for abortions in most cases.” Mary Anne Pazanowski of Bloomberg Law reports that “West Virginia Gets Go-Ahead to Regulate Abortion Pill’s Use; Regulations of abortion-inducing pill don’t preempt state law; States have power to additionally regulate FDA-approved drugs.” And Steve Garrison of Courthouse News Service reports that “Fourth Circuit upholds West Virginia ban on abortion pills; An appellate panel ruled that federal law did not preempt West Virginia’s ban on mifepristone in a victory for anti-abortion activists.” You can access today’s ruling of a partially divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit at this link. Posted at 8:57 PM by Howard Bashman“Trump’s DOJ Won’t Let Go of One of His Biggest Losers in Court. I Know Why.” Matthew Wollin has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate. Posted at 8:50 PM by Howard Bashman“The Trump Administration Is Staffing Up With Nationwide Abortion Ban Zealots; Conservative activists have spent years pushing a fringe legal theory that could ban abortion nationwide; A pair of newly appointed White House lawyers could do exactly that”: Susan Rinkunas has this essay online at Balls and Strikes. Posted at 8:45 PM by Howard Bashman“Mum’s the word on SCOTUS shadow docket; The Supreme Court’s concessions to President Trump have reignited complaints about the secrecy of shadow docket rulings”: Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service has this report. In commentary, online at Balls and Strikes, Jay Willis has an essay titled “The Conservative Justices Are Too Cowardly to Say What They Mean.” Online at Slate, Mark Joseph Stern has a Jurisprudence essay titled “The Supreme Court’s Latest Gift to Trump Is a Dark Turning Point.” Online at The Atlantic, Quinta Jurecic has an essay titled “The Supreme Court Won’t Explain Itself; In their decision allowing the Trump administration to dismantle the Department of Education, the justices didn’t offer one word of reasoning.” And online at Bloomberg Law, law professor Matthew Diller has an essay titled “Kavanaugh’s ‘Shadow Docket’ Stance Paints a Dangerous Picture.” Posted at 8:40 PM by Howard Bashman“The Supreme Court’s Silent Opinions Undermine Its Legitimacy; Without explanation, the majority blocked lower court orders halting President Trump’s dismantling of the Department of Education; That erodes the rule of law”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion. Posted at 8:34 PM by Howard Bashman“Bove Nomination Opposed by Judges Who Sat on the Same Bench; Timothy K. Lewis, Thomas I. Vanaskie joined over 75 ex-US, state judges; Bove has support from Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.)”: Tiana Headley and Suzanne Monyak of Bloomberg Law have this report. Posted at 8:32 PM by Howard Bashman“Are the Courts Checking Trump — or Enabling Him? A former federal judge weighs in.” You can access today’s new episode of “The Opinions” podcast from The New York Times, featuring law professor Michael McConnell, via this link. Posted at 7:56 AM by Howard Bashman“Appeals Court Delays Decision on Contempt Plan in Deportation Case; The three-judge panel has allowed the case to languish in a kind of legal limbo, catching the eye of some legal experts”: Alan Feuer of The New York Times has this report. Posted at 7:54 AM by Howard Bashman“Hunger Games for Legal Hackery”: You can access the new episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast via this link and on YouTube. Posted at 7:52 AM by Howard Bashman“167. The Inconsistent Court Strikes Again; Comparing Monday’s unexplained grant of emergency relief in the Department of Education downsizing case to how the justices handled President Biden’s student loan program is . . . telling.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site, along with a post titled “166. Medina, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, and the Spending Clause; The June 26 ruling allowing South Carolina to get away with kicking Planned Parenthood out of Medicaid is based on a troubling new presumption — and includes an even more alarming concurrence.” Posted at 7:50 AM by Howard Bashman“The Call Is Coming From Inside The Court; Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is pulling back the curtain on a lot of mischief at SCOTUS, and one Democratic senator says the court’s right-wing supermajority should be very worried about that”: You can access the new episode of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast via this link. Posted at 7:44 AM by Howard Bashman“We Will Regret Not Standing Up to This Venomous Cruelty”: Linda Greenhouse has this guest essay online at The New York Times. Posted at 7:42 AM by Howard Bashman“Judicial Notice (07.13.25): Bye Bye Bondi? Pam Bondi’s critics on the right, a $515 million legal fee, a judge’s humorous order, and more defections from Biglaw firms that folded to Trump.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site. Posted at 7:40 AM by Howard Bashman |
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