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Katie Buehler @bykatiebuehler.bsky.social · 22h

Listen to #SCOTUS's arguments here: www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...

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Katie Buehler @bykatiebuehler.bsky.social · 22h

The specific case involves a New York man convicted of using a firearm to kill someone during a violent or drug-trafficking related crime as well as using or carrying a gun during a violent or drug trafficking-related crime.

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Katie Buehler @bykatiebuehler.bsky.social · 22h

Barrett v. United States (No. 24-5774) asks if the Fifth Amendment's double jeopardy clause allows criminal defendants to be sentenced twice for the same act that violates both one major statute and a lesser-included one. #SCOTUS
www.law360.com/articles/237...

Up First At High Court: Election Laws & Conversion Therapy - Law360

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in six cases during the first week of its October 2025 term, including in disputes over federal candidates' ability to challenge state election laws, Co...

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Katie Buehler @bykatiebuehler.bsky.social · 22h

Chiles v. Salazar (No. 24-539) asks if a law barring licensed counselors from engaging in conversion therapy to change the sexual orientation or gender identity of a paitent is a lawful regulation of professional conduct or a free speech violation. #SCOTUS www.law360.com/articles/237...

Up First At High Court: Election Laws & Conversion Therapy - Law360

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in six cases during the first week of its October 2025 term, including in disputes over federal candidates' ability to challenge state election laws, Co...

www.law360.com

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Katie Buehler @bykatiebuehler.bsky.social · 22h

The Supreme Court will hear two cases today about the constitutionality of Colorado’s conversion therapy ban and whether criminal defendants can be sentenced twice for the same conduct under a lesser-included crime. #SCOTUS 🧵

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Katie Buehler @bykatiebuehler.bsky.social · 1d

The Supreme Court WILL NOT hear Ghislaine Maxwell's appeal of her 2022 sex trafficking conviction, which she claimed was partially barred by a provision in Jeffrey Epstein's nonprosecution agreement that promised not to bring criminal charges against his co-conspirators. #SCOTUS

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Katie Buehler @bykatiebuehler.bsky.social · 1d

Listen to the arguments here: www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...

Live Oral Argument Audio Live Oral Argument Audio

www.supremecourt.gov

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Katie Buehler @bykatiebuehler.bsky.social · 1d

Beck v. Choy (No. 24-440) asks if a Delaware law requiring medical malpractice lawsuits to be accompanied by an expert affidavit applies when those claims are filed in federal court. #SCOTUS www.law360.com/articles/237...

Up First At High Court: Election Laws & Conversion Therapy - Law360

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in six cases during the first week of its October 2025 term, including in disputes over federal candidates' ability to challenge state election laws, Co...

www.law360.com

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Katie Buehler @bykatiebuehler.bsky.social · 1d

Villarreal v. Texas (No. 24-557) asks whether criminal defendants who take the stand in their own defense have a constitutional right to discuss their ongoing testimony with their attorney if it's interrupted by an overnight recess. #SCOTUS www.law360.com/articles/237...

Up First At High Court: Election Laws & Conversion Therapy - Law360

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in six cases during the first week of its October 2025 term, including in disputes over federal candidates' ability to challenge state election laws, Co...

www.law360.com

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Katie Buehler @bykatiebuehler.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning from the Supreme Court on the first day of the October 2025 term! #SCOTUS will hear two cases today about the Sixth Amendment right to counsel and whether a Delaware state law requirement for medical malpractice suits applies in federal court cases. 🧵

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Katie Buehler @bykatiebuehler.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has agreed to hear five new cases, including a challenge to Hawaii concealed carry law and two cases involving the rights of U.S. individuals to sue the Cuban government over property seizures. #SCOTUS

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Katie Buehler @bykatiebuehler.bsky.social · 6d

Cook will remain in office until then, as ordered by lower courts.

Katie Buehler @bykatiebuehler.bsky.social · 6d

BREAKING: The Supreme Court WON'T ACT on President Donald Trump's request to fire Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook until it hears arguments in the case January 2026, one month after #SCOTUS will hear arguments in an FTC firing case.

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Katie Buehler @bykatiebuehler.bsky.social · 8d

Here's @law360.bsky.social story on the petitions: www.law360.com/articles/239...

Trump Asks Justices To Rule On Birthright Order's Legality - Law360

President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on the legality of his executive order denying citizenship to American-born babies of unauthorized immigrants, after lower courts ruled the ...

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Katie Buehler @bykatiebuehler.bsky.social · 8d

President Trump's appeals asking the Supreme Court to upend the understanding that the 14th Amendment grants citizenship to nearly anyone born in the U.S. are now public on #SCOTUS's website. Responses due Oct. 29.
Trump v. Washington: shorturl.at/TA1mU
Trump v. Barbara: shorturl.at/BtPDi

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Katie Buehler @bykatiebuehler.bsky.social · 11d

With this ruling, the $4B in aid is effectively cut unless Congress somehow votes to deny Trump's rescission request before Tuesday, Sept. 30. www.law360.com/articles/238...

BREAKING: High Court Pauses Distribution Of $4B Foreign Aid - Law360

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday that the Trump administration can hold onto $4 billion in frozen foreign aid funding while Congress considers a proposal to cut it, pausing a lower court order that...

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Katie Buehler @bykatiebuehler.bsky.social · 11d

#SCOTUS Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson dissent, saying the case raises "novel issues" about the relationship between the president and Congress that shouldn't be decided in cursory emergency docket rulings. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Katie Buehler @bykatiebuehler.bsky.social · 11d

BREAKING: The Supreme Court ALLOWS the Trump administration to hold onto $4B in foreign aid funding while Congress considers a proposal to cut it, pausing a lower court order that required the money to be spent by Sept. 30. #SCOTUS www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Katie Buehler @bykatiebuehler.bsky.social · 15d

Background on Humphrey's Executor here: www.law360.com/articles/229...

Katie Buehler @bykatiebuehler.bsky.social · 15d

Those cases are pending at the D.C. Circuit and will continue following the normal appellate process.

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Katie Buehler @bykatiebuehler.bsky.social · 15d

Fired members of the National Labor Relations Board and Merit Systems Protection Board had asked #SCOTUS to take up their cases alongside Slaughter's, arguing a decision overturning Humphrey's Executor should be done in consideration of all types of independent agencies.

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Katie Buehler @bykatiebuehler.bsky.social · 15d

President Donald Trump has had his eye on the 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor v. U.S., which allows Congress to protect some independent agency officials from being fired at the president's will, since February. The ruling has stayed good law for 90 years despite challenges.

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Katie Buehler @bykatiebuehler.bsky.social · 15d

BREAKING: The Supreme Court ALLOWS Trump to fire FTC commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, and agrees to decide if removal protections for the agency are unconstitutional, but declines to take up additional cases. Case will be argued in December. #SCOTUS www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Katie Buehler @bykatiebuehler.bsky.social · 18d

And they explained it!

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 18d

In non-Trump #SCOTUS emergency application news, the full Court has *granted* New Jersey Transit's request to put off (potentially forever) a trial in the case in which the Court had already agreed to resolve its sovereign immunity. (Justice Sotomayor had issued an "administrative" stay last week.)

Order from Supreme Court granting a stay of the pending trial in the New Jersey Transit case.

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Katie Buehler @bykatiebuehler.bsky.social · 18d

In the second emergency application *today*, the Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to halt a court order that invalidated DHS' rescission of temporary protected status for Venezuelans, claiming the lower court disregarded prior #SCOTUS rulings.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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