Via Mark Joseph Stern:
#SCOTUS 1st decision is FDA v. RJ Reynolds Vapor. 7–2 opinion, Barrett expands co's' ability to challenge FDA regulations of tobacco products in diff circuits—including, here, 5th Circuit.
Sotomayor, Jackson dissent.
Unfortunately, decision affirms the 5th Circuit AND allow many tobacco sellers to forum-shop their cases to the 5th Circuit, where they are nearly guaranteed to win in challenges to FDA regulations. It is wrong on the law, IMO, and bad for public health.
Via Mark Joseph Stern:
#SCOTUS third decision is a 6–3 split, conservatives vs. liberals, in McLaughlin v. McKesson, with Kavanaugh writing for the court. This bad outcome further weakens the power of federal agencies, an ongoing project for the supermajority.
At least we get a spicy dissent from Kagan, joined by Sotomayor and Jackson, in McLaughlin, accusing the conservative supermajority of "undermin[ing] the stability and efficacy of administrative programs." (She is clearly correct.)
🤦🏻♀️ Via Stern:
#SCOTUS 4th decision is Diamond Energy v. EPA. By a 7–2 vote, the court allows fuel companies to challenge EPA regulations that let California set higher emissions standards for vehicles. Sotomayor and Jackson dissent.
The immediate impact will be muted because Congress just passed a bill purporting to abolish Calif's ability to set higher emissions standards than the rest of the country, which Trump signed. But there will now be a long legal battle over THAT measure's legality.
'Liberal Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson criticized her colleagues Friday in a scathing dissent in a case involving vehicle emissions regulations.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/scathing-dissent-justice-jackson-says-supreme-court-gives-impression-f-rcna214104
In her dissenting opinion, she argued that the court's opinion gives the impression it favors “moneyed interests” in the way it decides which cases to hear and how it rules in them. The court had ruled 7-2 in favor of fuel producers seeking to challenge the Environmental Protection Agency's approval of California clean vehicle emissions regulations.
She also said she was concerned that the ruling could have "a reputational cost for this court, which is already viewed by many as being overly sympathetic to corporate interests."
With the Trump administration reversing course on many of former President Joe Biden's environmental policies, including those about California's electric vehicle mandates, the case is most likely moot or soon will be, Jackson wrote, making her wonder why the court felt the need to decide it.
"This case gives fodder to the unfortunate perception that moneyed interests enjoy an easier road to relief in this court than ordinary citizens," she wrote.' #SCOTUS
Unbelievable
" #SCOTUS cleared the way for Trump admin to swiftly deport foreigners to countries where they have no previous ties.
...lifted an order from a federal judge who had placed restrictions on the deportations to those countries..nationwide injunction that required admin to give immigrants “meaningful” advance notice & chance to raise objections before sent to so-called 3rd countries — nations not specified in their original deportation orders" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/23/supreme-court-third-party-country-deporations-00419210
The SCOTUS has shown that it is illegitimate and is ignoring, or trying to rewrite, the Constitution.
What are we going to do about it?
#Trump admin asks #SupremeCourt to clarify last night's "third country" #immigration order after a federal judge said it did not apply to a subset of the litigation re: 6 people the government wants to deport to #SouthSudan.
#DOJ calls the judge's actions "unprecedented defiance" of #SCOTUS.
#SCOTUS announces that tomorrow is the *last* day on which it will hand down decisions in cases argued this term.That means birthright citizenship, non-delegation, age verification for porn websites, and three other major rulings will all come down in quick succession starting tomorrow at 10 ET.
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Cuz #poor people don’t have #rights. Especially if they are #women.
#SCOTUS upholds #SouthCarolina’s ban on #Medicaid funds for #PlannedParenthood
The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed SC to bar Planned Parenthood's access to federal Medicaid funding for NON-abortion services. The decision allows states to #ban the org from getting Medicaid reimbursements for #cancer screenings & other care not related to #abortion.
#law #health #insurance #ActivistCourt
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/26/nx-s1-5435021/scotus-planned-parenthood
Clarity.
Via Elie Mystal:
Short read on today at #SCOTUS: Good day for inmates. Immigrants stay losing always. Worst day for women since Dobbs.
Clarence Thomas is a terrible human being.
He wants to "reconsider" a section of the Civil Rights Act of 1871 that permits the federal government to sue states and local governments for violating constitutional rights. It is the underpinning of much federal civil rights litigation.
#scotus
#clarencethomas
#civilrights
https://www.newsweek.com/supreme-court-clarence-thomas-civil-rights-opinion-2091154
#SCOTUS 3
Stern:
The Supreme Court's third decision of the day UPHOLDS the Universal Service Fund—which provides phone and internet access to poor and rural areas—by a 6–3 vote, holding that it does NOT violate the non-delegation doctrine. This is very good news. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24-354_0861.pdf
Three reminders ahead of #SCOTUS news at 10 ET:1) Decisions come out in reverse seniority order by who wrote it (so KBJ first; Chief last);2) Anything unsigned ("per curiam") comes *after* anything signed; and3) This is just for *argued* cases; other business can (and will) come up all summer.
Today is the final day of #SCOTUS’ term — & the justices have left some of the most important & contentious cases until the end.
They are slated to release 6 opinions, including decisions that will deal with nationwide #injunctions on #Trump’s ban on #BirthrightCitizenship, whether #parents can opt their children out of #school lessons involving #LGBTQ #books, & a #Texas #law that requires age verification to view online #porn.
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#SCOTUS 1
Via Mark Joseph Stern:
🚨By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court rules that universal injunctions likely exceed federal courts' authority and rolls back the injunctions protecting birthright citizenship from Trump's attack. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a884_8n59.pdf
SCOTUS conservative supermajority just took away lower courts' single most powerful tool for reining in the Trump administration's lawless excesses, stripping them of authority to issue universal injunctions that block illegal policies nationwide
#SCOTUS 5
Stern:
The Supreme Court's fifth decision is Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton. By a 6–3 vote, the court UPHOLDS age-verification laws for online porn, holding that they are only subject to intermediate scrutiny. All three liberals dissent. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/23-1122_3e04.pdf
#SCOTUS 2
Mark Joseph Stern:
In its second decision of the day, the Supreme Court UPHOLDS the Preventive Services Task Force, which decides which treatments must be fully covered by health insurance ...
But the court also clarifies that RFK Jr. has power to remove its members at-will. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24-316_869d.pdf
#SCOTUS 4
As predicted. #LGBTQ
Stern:
🚨In its fourth decision, the Supreme Court holds that parents who object to LGBTQ books in the classroom have a First Amendment right to "opt out" their children from seeing those books. Alito writes for the 6-3 majority, with all three liberals dissent. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24-297_4f14.pdf
#SCOTUS Sides with #Trump Against the #Judiciary
Its ruling lets the President temporarily revoke #BirthrightCitizenship —& enforce other #unconstitutional #ExecutiveOrders without fear of being blocked by “rogue judges.”
By Ruth Marcus
#law #democracy #Constitution #SeparationOfPowers
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-supreme-court-sides-with-trump-against-the-judiciary
#SCOTUS has ruled that #Medicaid patients do not have the right to choose #PlannedParenthood as their health care provider.
Justice Jackson, in dissent: “This Court continues the project of stymying one of the country’s great civil rights laws” – by limiting the scope of the Civil Rights Act of 1871, which was the technical issue at stake here.
https://theconversation.com/supreme-court-rules-that-states-may-deny-people-covered-by-medicaid-the-freedom-to-choose-planned-parenthood-as-their-health-care-provider-259953
#USPolitics
Via Mark Joseph Stern:
The Supreme Court declines to decide whether Los Angeles' COVID-era eviction moratorium was an unconstitutional "taking" of private property. Thomas and Gorsuch dissent and say it likely was. https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/063025zor_7647.pdf
🤦🏻♀️“ #SCOTUS takes up major new challenge to campaign finance restrictions
The court will consider a Republican request to 👉🏼strike down restrictions👈🏼 on how much national party committees can spend in coordination with individual campaigns”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-takes-major-new-challenge-campaign-finance-restrictions-rcna214523
Because it isn’t already about who has the richest friends:
#SCOTUS will hear #Republicans appeal over #spending limits in #elections
SCOTUS will take up a Republican-led drive to wipe away limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination w/candidates for Congress & president.
The justices said Mon they’ll review an appellate ruling that upheld a provision of federal #election #law that’s >50 yrs old. #Democrats want the court to leave the law in place.
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-6-30-2025#00000197-c11d-de08-a1f7-c7dfd2e50000
#SCOTUS tosses rulings that favored #transgender people
The #US #SupremeCourt threw out on Monday judicial decisions that favored transgender people in cases from #NorthCarolina, #WestVirginia, #Idaho & #Oklahoma, including in legal challenges to #state #health #insurance programs that deny coverage for patients seeking gender-affirming #medical #treatment.
#law #hate #discrimination #bigotry #LGBTQ #ActivistCourt
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-supreme-court-tosses-rulings-that-favored-transgender-people-2025-06-30/
