Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read: US Supreme Court tells Trump administration to facilitate return of Salvadoran man deported in error (John Kruzel & Andrew Chung, Reuters) Supreme Co … | Continue reading
The Supreme Court on Thursday evening largely left in place an order by a federal judge in Maryland directing the government to return to the United States a Maryland man who is currently being held in a maximum-security prison in El Salvador as a result of what the Trump adminis … | Continue reading
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Thursday morning read: Supreme Court lets Trump remove independent regulators, for now (Ann E. Marimow, The Washington Post) Rulings in New York and Texas Curb Deportatio … | Continue reading
In the two-and-a-half months since Donald Trump’s inauguration, a rush of challenges to executive orders and directives have made their way through the courts and have now started to reach the justices in earnest. Alongside those orders, Trump fired the heads of several independe … | Continue reading
Calling the situation “untenable,” the Trump administration came to the Supreme Court on Wednesday afternoon, asking the justices to block orders by federal judges in Washington, D.C., that instructed government officials to allow board members at two independent agencies to rema … | Continue reading
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Wednesday morning read: Supreme Court blocks order requiring Trump administration to reinstate thousands of federal workers (Mark Sherman, The Associated Press) Was the s … | Continue reading
The Supreme Court on Tuesday paused an order by a judge in San Francisco that would require the federal government to reinstate more than 16,000 workers who were fired by six agencies earlier this year. A group of nonprofits challenging the layoffs argued that the terminations by … | Continue reading
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Tuesday morning read: Supreme Court Clears Way for Venezuelan Deportations to Resume, for Now (Abbie VanSickle, The New York Times) Supreme Court says Venezuelans Trump w … | Continue reading
The Supreme Court on Monday lifted a pair of orders by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., that had barred the government from removing noncitizens who are designated as members of a Venezuelan gang under a March 15 executive order issued by President Donald Trump. By a vote of … | Continue reading
The Trump administration came to the Supreme Court on Monday morning, asking the justices to block an order by a federal judge in Maryland that instructed the federal government to return a Maryland man erroneously deported to El Salvador, where he is being held in a maximum-secu … | Continue reading
The Supreme Court on Monday morning added two new cases, involving the Sixth Amendment right to counsel and restitution orders, to its docket for the 2025-26 term. The announcement came as part of a list of orders from the justices’ private conference on Friday, April 4. The cour … | Continue reading
ShareEach weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Monday morning read: Supreme Court rejects challenge to New York gun law (Lawrence Hurley, NBC News) Appeals court halts Trump independent agency firings, spurring S … | Continue reading
The Supreme Court on Friday afternoon put on hold an order by a federal judge in Massachusetts that would have required the Department of Education to reinstate more than $65 million in grants that it terminated in February because they funded programs that included diversity, eq … | Continue reading
Lawyers for two different groups of states, as well as lawyers representing immigrants’ rights groups and several pregnant women, urged the Supreme Court on Friday to leave in place three orders by federal judges that prohibit the federal government from implementing an executive … | Continue reading
Protoplanetary Disks Are Smaller Than Expected by Paul Gilster | Apr 4, 2025 | Exoplanetary Science | 3 comments In astronomy, the first thing you see may be the least typical. A case in point: ‘Hot Jupiters.’ A few prescient souls, among them Buzz Aldrin and John Barnes in their … | Continue reading
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read: Supreme Court sides with truck driver who said CBD got him fired (Maureen Groppe, USA Today) Trump Lawyer Dean John Sauer Confirmed as Solicitor Gene … | Continue reading
A group of nonprofits challenging the layoffs of thousands of probationary employees urged the Supreme Court to leave in place an order by a federal judge in San Francisco that would require the federal government to reinstate more than 16,000 employees who were fired by six agen … | Continue reading
The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here. Over the past couple of conferences, the Supreme Court has continued to clear out the rolls of relisted cases. Rema … | Continue reading
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Thursday morning read: Supreme Court appears divided over whether states can cut off Planned Parenthood funding (Lindsay Whitehurst, The Associated Press) Supreme Court h … | Continue reading
The Supreme Court on Wednesday was divided over whether Planned Parenthood has a legal right under federal civil rights laws to challenge the order by South Carolina’s governor barring abortion clinics, including Planned Parenthood, from participating in Medicaid. During more tha … | Continue reading
The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act provides for federal criminal and civil penalties for harms from “racketeering.” Wednesday’s ruling in Medical Marijuana, Inc v. Horn, like so many of the court’s RICO decisions, involves the civil penalties. Douglas Horn was … | Continue reading
The Supreme Court on Wednesday largely upheld the Food and Drug Administration’s denials of two companies’ applications to sell flavored liquids for use in e-cigarettes. In a unanimous ruling, the justices threw out a ruling by the conservative U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th C … | Continue reading
We are expecting one or more opinions from the court this morning. Join us for the live blog starting at 9:45 a.m. EDT. Following the opinion announcements, the court will hear oral arguments in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic. The case is a dispute over South Carolin … | Continue reading
On Wednesday, April 2, we will be live blogging as the court releases opinions in one or more argued cases from the current term. Click here for a list of FAQs about opinion announcements. | Continue reading
Lawyers for alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua urged the Supreme Court on Tuesday to leave in place an order by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., that prohibits the federal government from removing them, or anyone else, from the United States under the Alien … | Continue reading
The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared inclined to allow a lawsuit by U.S. victims of terrorist attacks in Israel against the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization to go forward. A majority of the justices appeared skeptical of contentions by the PA and t … | Continue reading
A Multiwavelength Look at Proxima Centauri’s Flares by Paul Gilster | Apr 1, 2025 | Exoplanetary Science | 4 comments The problem of flares in red dwarf planetary systems is stark. With their habitable zones relatively near to the star, planets that might support life are exposed … | Continue reading
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in a case that, at first glance, appears to involve only a technical interpretation of the federal Medicaid Act. But the dispute has drawn widespread attention because of the context in which it came to the justices: an atte … | Continue reading
The court this morning will hear arguments in a dispute over whether Americans injured in terror attacks abroad, or the family members of Americans killed in such attacks, can sue the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority in U.S. courts. Listen live. Eac … | Continue reading
United States v. Miller presents the kind of simple facts that populate law-school hypotheticals. A business is in financial distress. The shareholders (who control the business) use some of its funds to pay off their own debts, including taxes owed to the federal government. Whe … | Continue reading
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Tuesday in the latest chapter of the justices’ efforts to lay out rules for personal jurisdiction – whether courts have the power to hear a case against certain defendants. Tuesday’s case is a particularly high-profile dispute, and on … | Continue reading
The Supreme Court on Monday appeared sympathetic to the argument by a Catholic Charities chapter that Wisconsin violated the Constitution when it refused to give the group the same exemption from the state’s unemployment tax that it provides to churches, religious schools, and so … | Continue reading
Under the federal law governing efforts by state prisoners to seek post-conviction relief in federal courts, prisoners who lose at the trial level can only appeal that decision if they can show that reasonable judges could disagree with the ruling or that the case should be allow … | Continue reading
The justice will hear oral arguments in Catholic Charities Bureau v. Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission and Rivers v. Guerrero this morning. Catholic Charities is one of three religious rights cases the justices will hear in the final weeks of the 2024-25 term's argumen … | Continue reading
I sometimes think this is the year of animals for me at Bedlam Farm, but that’s silly. Every year up here has been a year of the animals. The newcomers are Zip and the birds (new to me). As many bird lovers predicted, I would get hooked if I started taking photos of birds. They [ … | Continue reading
“Looking at a flower blossom triggers dopamine production in our brains, which makes us feel better. Flowers with attractive scents like lilacs and peonies also cause our brains to produce serotonin. Serotonin is a mood stabilizer that helps you feel satisfied. We have improved f … | Continue reading
Above, Sue’s students say hello and tell her she is missed. It will take more than surgery to slow or stop my indomitable friend and beloved teacher, Sue Silverstein, an Art Teacher at Bishop Gibbons High School in Schenectady, New York. Sue asked me to let all of her many follow … | Continue reading
Sarah, it is a great privilege to work with someone so talented and dedicated. Working with her, learning from her, and helping her do real good in a confused and chaotic world is a pleasure. She has done an incredible job making the Cambridge Food Pantry a place of comfort and g … | Continue reading
Please help some teachers get snacks for hungry and tired kids in their classroom. | Continue reading
“Believing it was the goddess Iris who helped guide woman’s souls to heaven, the ancient Greeks planted iris flowers on the graves of their loved ones…” – Pinterest. Thousands of years later, the Iris is still planted on the graves of loved ones, especially women. Rescue Love – … | Continue reading
I don’t know if you can call it a Sabbath, but I’ll try. Maria and I are working hard not to work hard on Saturdays and Sundays; we have been wearing ourselves out. I start today with my daily bird watch (a wonderful meditation), and the Cambridge Pantry requests for food support … | Continue reading
Today, Saturday the 29th, the Cambridge Food Pantry asks for help getting some chili back on the shelves. The last one was picked off yesterday (see Volunteer Ellenor above). Sarah is also eager to get some tomato sauce from the soup the Army of Goods sent earlier. Chili is one o … | Continue reading
With most of the 2024-25 term behind them, the justices’ final stretch of oral arguments is stacked with all three religious rights cases of the year. All three cases look to the justices to take up an expansive view of the Constitution’s religious protections. The first of those … | Continue reading
Eight states, led by California, on Friday urged the Supreme Court to leave in place an order by a federal judge in Massachusetts that requires the Department of Education to restore more than $65 million in grants, intended to address teacher shortages, that it ended in February … | Continue reading
“That swimming, sloping, elusive something about the dark-bluish tint of the iris, which seemed still to retain the shadows it had absorbed of ancient, fabulous forests where there were more birds than tigers and more fruit than thorns and where, in some dapped depth, man’s mind … | Continue reading
The Christian was required and created for one purpose and no other: “to be one more worker for the kingdom, one more transmitter of the divine Charity, the great spendthrift of God. From the first, writes Evelyn Wunderhill in “The Soul’s Journey.” That, she wrote, was Jesus’s r … | Continue reading
The Trump administration came to the Supreme Court on Friday morning, asking the justices to allow it to enforce an executive order that directs government officials to quickly remove, without a hearing, noncitizens who are designated as members of a Venezuelan gang. The order re … | Continue reading
Today is Juice Day at the Cambridge Pantry, all Canned, for convenience and the recognition that many pantry customers don’t have kitchens or space. Researchers say that canned juices are as healthy as fresh fruit and make life easier for young mothers and older people. Sarah’s … | Continue reading