The Latest Breaking News from Alito

A careful textualist analysis that speaks more broadly to other substantive canons, including Chevron deference.

That happened in yesterday's opinions respecting the stay in Labrador v. Poe, twice in Justice Gorsuch's concurrence (joined by Justices Thomas and Alito), and once in Justice Jackson's dissent (joined by Justice Sotomayor). Nice! For Sam's substantive analysis of Labrador, see this post.

Yesterday the Court stayed most of the district court's injunction in Labrador v. Poe, narrowing the injunction so that it protected only the plaintiffs from the enforcement of Idaho's statute restricting surgeries and other kinds of medical interventions for minors related to gender identity. Accompanying the Court's stay were three…

Live commentary on the Supreme Court oral argument in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine

The center of the Court wants to push back on temporary administrative stays and the Fifth Circuit.

US Supreme Court Justice Alito extends halt on Texas immigration law, pending further review. Supporters argue for border protection, critics raise concern...

In Speech First, Inc. v. Sands, the Court vacated the Fourth Circuit's decision upholding Virginia Tech's Bias Intervention and Response Team Policy, on the grounds that the case had become moot. Justice Jackson would have denied the petition because of her views about when lower court decisions should be vacated…

From Judge Robert Jonker's opinion today in Ashton v. Okemos Public Schools (W.D. Mich.): [Plaintiff's] daughter, E.B., served a time-limited expulsion from her high school after she lied to her parents and to the police about her interaction at school with an administrator and tried to get another student to…

On Friday, I wrote a post that totaled nearly 6,000 words about the New York Times bombshell report on Dobbs. My initial goal was to simply lay out all of the new disclosures--and there were many of them. Now, I've had some time to think about this new information. Here,…

Jodi Kantor and Adam Liptak of the New York Times have published a remarkable story about Dobbs that reports on private correspondences, votes at conference, and more. This post will highlight sixteen of the largest disclosures, and close with some broader thoughts. And I've presented this narrative in (roughly) chronological…

Justice Gorsuch has been consistent from Kastl to Edmo to Grimm to Bostock to Kincaid to Tingley.