#supreme-court

#supreme-court

The US supreme court agreed on Monday to hear a defense by the Trump administration of the government's authority to limit the processing of asylum claims at ports of entry along the US-Mexico border. The court took up the administration's appeal of a lower court's determination that the metering policy, under which US immigration officials could stop asylum seekers at the border and decline to process their claims, violated federal law.

Ed. Note: A weekly roundup of just a few items from Howard Bashman's How Appealing blog, the Web's first blog devoted to appellate litigation. Check out these stories and more at How Appealing. "A Senators-Only Right to Sue in Shutdown Deal; In their legislation reopening the government, senators awarded themselves a legal power to sue the government that should be universal": Anya Bidwell and Patrick Jaicomo have this essay online at The Wall Street Journal. "Judging The Justice System In The Age Of Trump: Nancy Gertner." You can access the new episode of David Lat's "Original Jurisdiction" podcast via this link. "Gorsuch Joins Sotomayor as Supreme Court Children's Author": Justin Wise of Bloomberg Law has this report.

India's Supreme Court has warned that toxic air in Delhi could cause permanent damage to people's health, as pollution levels in the capital remained in the severe range on Thursday. Justice PS Narasimha made the remarks during a hearing, urging lawyers to use virtual facilities instead of attending court in person. Why are you all appearing here? We have the virtual hearing facility. Please avail it. This pollution ... this will cause permanent damage, he said.

A Meath couple who built a house without planning permission have failed in their latest bid to prevent the demolition of the property after the Supreme Court rejected an application for a further appeal.

To understand how grudging Amy Coney Barrett's new book is when it comes to revealing personal details, consider that one of the family members the Supreme Court Justice most often refers to is a great-grandmother who died five years before she was born. On Barrett's desk at home, she recounts in " Listening to the Law," she keeps a photograph of her great-grandmother's one-story house, where, as a widow during the Great Depression, she raised some of her thirteen children and took in other needy relatives.

Yet history is littered with presidential miscalculations. President Eisenhower famously called his appointment of Earl Warren to Chief Justice one of his " biggest mistakes," as Warren became a liberal stalwart for over a decade. Justices Stevens and Souter, both nominated by Republican presidents, evolved into some of the Court's most liberal members. Had Republican presidents consistently installed reliably conservative justices since the mid-20th century, the Court would have been exponentially more conservative than it actually was.

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether states can continue to count late-arriving mail ballots, which have been a target of President Donald Trump. The justices took up an appeal from Mississippi after a panel of three judges nominated by the Republican president on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last year that the state law allowing ballots that arrive shortly after Election Day to be counted violated federal law.