Steve Vladeck

Over no public dissents, #SCOTUS *denies* Trump administration's application for a stay in the immigration judges case (about whether the dispute should be in a district court or before the Merit Systems Protection Board). It's the Trump administration's first real loss at #SCOTUS since April. https://amanita.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:nwnlnixtjh3qhkwpz2uy5uwv&cid=bafkreid4ajash5go5zxy57w47jiea3ojtmnykx2l7yvklwmoqggxtgaexe https://amanita.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:nwnlnixtjh3qhkwpz2uy5uwv&cid=bafkreid4ajash5go5zxy57w47jiea3ojtmnykx2l7yvklwmoqggxtgaexe

The President of the United States has the exact same power to pardon a state-court conviction that you or I have—which is to say, none.

Maybe this new blog can respond, in one of its first posts, to the argument that the term “interim docket” is a deliberately misleading attempt to minimize the (very permanent) doctrinal and real-world consequences of #SCOTUS’s rulings on emergency applications? www.stevevladeck.com/p/177-the-no... https://amanita.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:nwnlnixtjh3qhkwpz2uy5uwv&cid=bafkreigxny2zvfywsdl4qe7kd244am2kanpnxasv7yfwadmdippfxxte2u

Today’s “One First” tackles the grant of certiorari in one of the birthright citizenship cases, and then Justice Kagan’s TX redistricting dissent—“yet another warning about the majority’s seeming willingness to do … whatever it wants, at least where rulings on emergency applications are concerned.” 196. Justice Kagan's Texas Red...

#SCOTUS adds 4 cases to its docket, including one (but not both) of the birthright citizenship cases. As for why only one, this is the case that cleanly presents the merits (where Court’s likely to rule against Trump); the other case would’ve required the justices to decide if states had standing. https://amanita.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:nwnlnixtjh3qhkwpz2uy5uwv&cid=bafkreiebbcynbqyrilir2ydof3uc6h452l2b5ihgit2un53go4p74w45k4

The Trump administration has filed its 32nd emergency application with #SCOTUS, this one seeking to freeze a Fourth Circuit ruling in a dispute over whether district courts can hear challenges to limits on what immigration judges are allowed to say publicly: georgetown.box.com/s/0ovhpw5pes... 25A662.pdf | Powered by Box

Link: utexas.box.com/s/b91ggd9h1k... 25A608 Order.pdf | Powered by ...

#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three democratic appointees, #SCOTUS puts Texas's new House maps back into effect for (and, presumably, through) the 2026 midterms. The three Democratic appointees, in an opinion by Justice Kagan, dissent. I'll post the ruling shortly.

For this week’s bonus “One First,” I wrote about the legal questions surrounding any attempt to court-martial Senator Mark Kelly—and why (1) it’s not likely to go anywhere; (2) the threat is still ominous; and (3) the real story continues to be what the military is *doing,* not who’s criticizing it: Bonus 195: The Mark Kelly Mesh...

Here's a link to the memo that identifies the cases in which the flowchart is to be followed: acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:... It isn't applicable to *every* syllabus, but it's still the beginning of the end. Adobe Acrobat