The emergency docket goes quiet – for now

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Thursday morning read:

• Trump’s controversial plan to fire federal workers finds favor with Supreme Court (Ashley Oliver, Fox News)
• Trump Admin’s Supreme Court Lawyers Quit (Robert Alexander, Newsweek)
• Supreme Court Keeps Ruling in Trump’s Favor, but Doesn’t Say Why (Adam Liptak, The New York Times)
• Jackson Emerges as the Supreme Court’s Leading Liberal Voice (David Lat, Bloomberg Law)
• The future of the Voting Rights Act is at the Supreme Court (Chris Geidner, Law Dork)

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Wednesday morning read:

• Federal health agency finalizes mass layoffs after Supreme Court lifts pause (Zac Anderson, USA Today)
• Trump Admin. Starts Moving CTE to Labor Dept. After Supreme Court Order (Brooke Schultz, Education Week)
• Where’s the U.S. border? Trump asks Supreme Court to decide (Stephen Dinan, The Washington Times)
• The Supreme Court’s Most Worrisome Non-Decision (Matt Ford, The New Republic)
• Democrats have a decision to make about the Supreme Court (Ramesh Ponnuru, The Washington Post)

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• Justice Scalia: https://www.ebay.com/itm/286706762798
• Justice Souter: https://www.ebay.com/itm/286706751317
• Justice Thomas: https://www.ebay.com/itm/286706773446

Texas recently became the third state in two years, following Louisiana and Arkansas, to pass a law requiring Ten Commandments displays in public school classrooms. Soon after — like the other states that had passed such a law — it was sued over this policy.

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Tuesday morning read:

• HHS carries out mass firings across health agencies after Supreme Court decision (Rene Marsh, Meg Tirrell, and Tami Luhby, CNN)
• What to Make of the Justice Department’s Denaturalization Initiative (Eric Columbus, Lawfare)
• DOJ rejects Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal in SCOTUS response (Ashley Oliver, Fox News)
• Supreme Court: Ceding more power to Trump? (The Week)
• The Supreme Court just handed Trump the biggest victory of his second term, in McMahon v. New York (Ian Millhiser, Vox)

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Monday morning read:

• Federal workers face mass firings this summer after Supreme Court ruling (Emily Peck, Axios)
• How some Supreme Court decisions fractured the conservative supermajority (Maureen Groppe, USA Today)
• Muslim inmate who won US Supreme Court beard case claims retaliatory transfer by Arkansas officials (Andrew DeMillo, ABC News)
• Supreme Court Reiterates: Judges Don’t Run the Executive Branch (Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review)
• Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Ban Faces New Peril: Class Actions (Adam Liptak, The New York Times)